Walking with a Cane, or Several

In Nov. 2007 Larry had left hip replacement surgery. That turned out to be the first of four major surgeries in the following 11 years. With that hip replacement, he always maintained that the doctor caused his left leg to be 1/2" shorter than his right. He started walking with a cane, which he continued to do until his death. The green cane in the middle of the above collection was his favorite and the one he was using most recently. 

Seeing the Beauty in Nature

Larry was a man who saw the beauty in nature. One of his favorite things to do was to collect hornet or wasp nests and spray paint them gold, as is obvious in this picture of his collection of gold nests. 

Another view of his collection: 

Larry told me it was a Native American custom to present someone a feather to convey the sentiment "I love you". We obviously have feathers stuck in things all over our house. Here's a sample of our collection:

This picture shows that Larry stuck feathers into an old root that he brought back from Japan as a child. An ammunition shell also holds flowers---anything can be a vase for feathers!

He Walked in These Shoes

As I've searched through storage totes since Larry's death, I discovered these baby shoes. I'm sure they belonged to both Larry and his older brother Dick Jamison. 

Not a Sweet Tooth, but a Dry Mouth

I examined the pockets of Larry's sport coat and suit and found this in each pocket.

At first glance, you'd think he had a sweet tooth. However, he kept mints, cough drops and candy in his mouth to counteract the dry mouth he suffered as a result of the medications he was taking. 

Binoculars, Wallets, and Neckties

In my continuing effort to document the many collections of my late husband, Larry C. Jamison, I'm sharing pictures today of his binocular collection and the assortment of wallets that he saved. 

I really was attracted to Larry when he was dressed in a suit! He had very good taste in clothes and displayed a great sense of style.

Dancing with his beloved sister-in-law Linda Jamison in Reno, Nevada at the Hot August Nights "Prom". 

Here's Larry's collection of neckties. I've saved the tie he's wearing in this picture as you can see it in the second picture below. 

Nail Clippers in Abundance

The 20 nail clippers are just one more collection of Larry's. Many were contributed by my dad, Ernest Margheim, before he passed away May 13, 2014. It amazes me what we collect, and keep, over time. 

P. S. Yesterday I posted this picture of Larry's nail clippers. Today I was going through the pockets in his sport coat and suits. I found a nail clipper in the pocket of each coat that he wore to church. He never clipped his nails in Church, so I don't know why it was important to carry a nail clipper. But I added 2 clippers to the collection pictured above!

A Collector or a "Saver"?

If my husband, Larry Jamison, had one of something, he typically had more than 5 of the same thing. I thought he was a "Collector", but in this example of his 9 transistor radios, all but one of which don't work anymore, I'd say he was simply a "saver" of items. Rather than throw them away, he threw them into a drawer! Larry followed his mother's pattern of listening to a radio throughout the night. Here's the bunch of radios in his nightstand at the time of his death. The one he used is at the bottom left.  

Watches were something else Larry hung on to! The watch he was wearing was at the right end of the first row.

Larry was a very devout Christian and faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was prepared to offer anyone who might be interested in a new copy of The Book of Mormon, with this collection of 26. It's a good thing we have a lot of bookcases in our house!

Larry's father owned the Harmonica at the top left of this photo below. And that's all it took for Larry to gather a collection of harmonicas! Those lined up on the right were provided by my father, Ernest Margheim. I don't know where he got them. 

There are more collections (Bibles, Cameras, Binoculars etc) but I didn't have time today to assemble them and photograph them. So there's much more to come!

Larry, the Collector

Larry was a "Collector" as evidenced here where I reveal two of his favored collections. 

He gathered 76 pocket knives, from his own and my father's collections over the years. 
Here are a couple knives I found after I photographed the above collection:

I teasingly called Larry "Six Eyes" when he would be wearing a pair of reading glasses, add another to improve visibility, and then add the spare glasses that hung around his neck so he could see better. I don't have a picture of that. But here we can see his collection of 43 pairs of reading glasses and sunglasses.

I discovered 2 more pair of glasses as I was cleaning out other cabinets.  I wish I knew the story behind each of them.

We can see that Larry always wore a pair of reading glasses around his neck, as he had on a pair. He's pictured here with his daughter Ruthie Jamison Brady.