she likes to travel around....

there is another little part of my

life that i would like to share w/you...

i mentioned it briefly in one of my

earlier posts...

several years before i opened fannie rose..

i had another business...an errand business..

i started this on a whim as i did fannie rose..

hey..what can i tell you?  just the way i

do things....

i had no clue what to call this errand

business of mine...services by sue?...

hmmm...thought better of that one after

i had it in the ad in the paper...

while leaving a friend after having

a lovely lunch together...i said...*better

hurry..i have a lot of running around to

do*...and, then the light bulb went off

in my mind....being a product of the

50s/60s...the song runaround sue...

came to mind and the name of my

new business was decided then and there...

i had hoped to get a lot of work from

the yuppies at the time...but..as life

would have it...the bottom started to

fall out of the financial market and the

yuppies were no where to be found...

i did have clients but most were elderly

and/or handicapped......

i learned a lot of life lessons from my

 clients...

tenacity... when the client lived on the

top floor of an elderly complex and i

had to walk as i am petrified of elevators...

kindness...when my client was an elderly

mentally challenged gentleman who clapped

his hands together whenever we would be

in each other's company...telling me i was his best friend ever.....

thankfulness...when my client was a handicapped

middle aged woman who had no one but me

in her life to help her out....

loyalty...when my client was an elderly woman

who lived above a funeral home because that was

the only rent that would take her with her beloved

little kitty....

living life to the fullest and that you don't

have to get old just because you age...

when my client was a very wonderful

young 88 year old who taught me a lot

about life and love.....

when this last client passed away...she

left myself and my family with lots of

wonderful memories and some beautiful

things to boot...here are some of them...

a magnificent watercolor that belonged  to her grandmother.....

this beautiful reverse painting on glass that was also a family heirloom....

a self portrait of the new hampshire artist ..e wood perry..that she purchased in a

*junk* shoppe in new hampshire while summering there.....

this lovely marble topped piece with carved handles purchased from a local antiques

dealer shortly before she passed away....

 

grandfather's clock with the case that was made by her late husband....

her grandmother's frame w/a picture of her mother...bertha....

          

and, last but certainly not least........catherine d......
i love her

and miss her to this day......

thanks for taking this journey w/me....

it's fun to remember love laughter and friendship....

be well...

warmly.......susan