Time Marches on.....and on....and on....

When Mark's parents passed away, we received some of their belongings.Oneof the items was an old Mantle Clock, identical to every mantle clock in every Grandma and Grandpa's house in the entire world.You know the ones. Their clock needed some repair, and so, with every intention to repair it "someday" we packed it away and forgot about it.
A couple of weeks ago we were cleaning, clearing, and organizing the garage...and lo and behold, there in it's careful packaging was the old clock. Since The Ol' Coonster now works in a store with a full time watch/clock repairman, he took the old timepiece in for some TLC.
It was in good shape, just needed some cleaning and minor repair internally. The cabinet is nothing to get eexcited about, but it is great shape for the shape it's in! Only one problem with it.......our kids!
This is a chiming clock. The b ellrings out on the hour "gonging" the number of hours, and on the half out, a softer chime keeps everyone apprised of the exact time of the day.......or night. That's the real problem....they don't mind the daytime chimes so much, boy they do NOT care to be awakened with two, three, four, or five bells reminding them how much precious little sleep they have left! Now, I can't say as I blame them....we put the clock in our room the other night....you all know I Ambien it through the night, and don't often wake up...but when I do, it's purt near impossible to go back to sleep. It just took one night to figure out that neither the Coonster nor myself longed for the nostalgic days of sleeping over at Grandma's enough to be reminded of the time hourly, or more.....We put the clock in the dining room, but today Geoff announced that wherever that clock is located, it is ticking it's last! He says it gots ta go! I really like the clock and we did pay money to get it in working condition, but um......Geoff may have a point.....maybe we'll just let it wind down, then just sit and look interesting until we forget how annoying it sounds and crank her up again......my IPhone tells me the time without making a big deal about it....maybe I'll stick with that for awhile.....