New England style

My grandmother moved out of her house about a year ago... she tried the assisted living thing but ended up in a nursing home in the Alzheimer wing - she has dementia with Lewy Bodies...

So she lived in her house for at least 30 years... this was also a summer house when my mother was growing up that she winterized when I was a baby...

so what does all this have to do with New England style you ask? Her house was FULL of stuff... some good... some bad... lots of trash...lots of treasure... and my mother is the one dealing with all the "stuff"... it's everywhere... she is having a hard time letting go...that is when I find this...

I can't decide what I like more... the painting of the VERY old guy (painted by my great grandfather) behind the drivers seat... the dusty old Nantucket basket that my great grandmother used to go to the market... or the fantastic old Cunard cruise ship menus I found when I stumbled across this in the garage...

I am slowly becoming scared to death of what I will face when it is my turn to go thru my parents things... heirlooms are sounding more and more like a burden...