The Treasures of Haus Burkholder

I have previously compared parts of our house, namely the garage, to a sort of perpetual garage sale, a room-sized Bag of Holding (for you D&D geeks out there), a Mary Poppins's carpetbag, and even a non-jewel-encrusted Cave of Wonders. Maybe a Cave of Mundanes. Anyway, if you simply ignore the room for long enough, it will accumulate anything and everything for which a human being could possibly think up a use. When I first moved in, the garage had been properly disregarded for an appropriate amount of time, and every time I mentioned to John, "I don't really want to spend money on it, but I sure would like a new (noun)," he'd say, "I'm sure we have one in the garage. Let's go look." Sure enough, said item would almost always be there, usually in mint condition. (NRFB!!! ^{^}) This was one of the many reasons it didn't make sense to register for everything under the sun when we got married, we had a toaster oven in the garage already.

Now I discover, apparently our house is also a sort of memorabilia magnet. I should have been able to track the transformation of this other magical room, because I've seen it empty. Over the years, people have moved in, people have moved out, and the last time someone moved out, it became a storage room. I thought, "We'll just store the Christmas stuff in here until we can clean out a closet." Falser words have never been spoken, because it wasn't long before the boxes started breeding, like rabbits on fertility medication. And where there weren't boxes, there were piles. Boxes of wedding memorabilia, piles of tools, shelf after shelf of books (double- and triple-stacked), three chests of drawers full of summer clothes (so that's where those shorts went!), empty boxes we can't bring ourselves to throw away, and finally, the best treasure of all: pictures and video!

The video is 8mm, so I have nothing here that can deal with that. It will have to wait for a professional transfer, but I've been scanning pictures for days, and I still can't catch up. But, I am uploading them as I scan them, and I'll be posting the links as they go up. Some albums will be updated as I sort pictures into appropriate categories, but feel free to peruse and download what you want. If you know anything about a particular picture, like who's in it, or where/when it was taken, make a comment on it or shoot me an email!


A box of Flossie Burkholder's pictures ^{(^)}

More from Flossie's house - shots of Haus Burkholder being built ^{(^)}

A box from the Keeney house ^{(^)}

Frank & Dorothy's Wedding (11-29-1969) ^{(^)}

Branson-Carmichael Wedding ^{(^)}

Branson family photos ^{(^)}

Edit 07-18-2010: I've added more links as I've been able to scan more albums. Keep checking back, I'll keep adding more pictures until I'm out!

Charles Branson, 1928-2010

My Grandpa Charlie passed on Friday.