More Sewing Room Clean-out

I was planning on today being the final day to clean out the sewing room, but that was not to be. I had to 1st clear out the clothes in the doorway of the closet. And there is stuff on the outside of the door that still needs to be handled.

Found the artwork that was in this frame earlier in the cleanout.

Inside the closet there were more boxes & bags & old suitcases. I found a large old Celsius thermometer in a wooden case. The old yellow clothes hamper was in there, too. I am going to repurpose it as a cat food container; I have been looking but have not found anything satisfactory. And there was a gallon can full of home-poured lead weights for fishing. And an old-fashioned coconut grater & a knife with a home-made sheath made from a short piece of pvc pipe that was heated & flattened.

A Celsius thermometer in a wooden case.

I think it will work well for catfood storage.

Home-made lead fishing weights.

Coconut grater; you sit on the left end.

I took a closer look at the fishing rods & how they were fastened against the wall. Looks like there are 6 rods there with 3 reels. I recognize one of the rods as the one Grandma used; its a telescoping pole that can also be used as a walking cane to steady yourself when climbing from rock to rock on your way down to the shoreline.

And I found a box labelled, "papers". Which it did have. They included report cards from elementary & middle school for my uncles. And also a very old bank savings book from the Bank of Hawaiʻi which lists the 1st deposit in 1932. It was also stamped, "American citizen"; I wonder if they did that for all American citizens? Plus some interesting money. Two were Military Payment Certificates.

Was that "American citizen" stamp only for people who looked like Grandma & Grandpa?

I also spent a little time laying out a row of weed cloth along the outside edge of the cat fence. Since there will be several shrubs for lei making planted here & it is on the other side of the kalo trench, I will be planting mondo grass as a groundcover so that Emily doesn't have to mow it. 

Mondo grass in foreground by hose.