Throwback Thursday - Mother Goose

 

Once upon a time, Mother Goose, a grandmother clocked lived in the corner of the living room.  She came from a second hand store and her workings were taken to a clockmaker friend of Himself. After a tune-up, Mother goose faithfully kept time chiming the hours and half hours until one day, Mother Goose stopped keeping time. Well, not quite true. She kept accurate time twice a day though she no longer chimed on the hours or half hour.

With the living room going through a redecoration, Mother Goose was moved to a corner of the sun room. The idea was for her to keep perfect time twice per day and wait for the weather to warm up when she would be taken to stand out front at the curb where someone would come and take Mother Goose away as a real bargain.

While I was cleaning the sun room to open it up for the season, just for old time's sake, I moved the hands to the clock to the correct time. Then to complete the ritual, I took Mother Goose's key and gently wound the mechanisms. I was looking for a clock for the sun room. Something with a luminous dial so we could see the clock at night. Mother Goose didn't fit that description.

 And then, I heard it! A faint ticking! She chimed the hour though she was in a different time zone 4 hours behind. No matter. The old girl was old, but she was keeping time. Mother Goose now has a new home in the sun room. I guess she just wanted a change of scenery.