The wind keeper (as in wind a clock)
I was trying to devise something that would help me remember when to wind my vintage Seth Thomas mantel clock from the 30’s. It needs to be wound every other day. It’s hard for me to remember when I wound it last.
So!… One day I was sitting on the sofa, thinking about my problem. The coffee table is big and wooden and it has two drawers in it facing the couch. One was open. In the open drawer was a white, plastic spool of thread with a few coils of thread left on it, from when I used to mend torn dog toys. The Lord drew my attention to the spool.
That same day in the mail came an advertising package of samples from a printing company. A company I had never heard of before. I could have somehow gotten on their mailing list, being a graphic designer… but regardless of why it was there, it was there, on the coffee table. It was unusual that it would even be on the coffee table. I usually take that kind of thing straight to my office. But it was there—right in front of me. Somehow I “knew” that among the samples would be a sheet of blank, white, adhesive-backed paper.
Then the idea came to me to take the spool, use it as a cutting guide to make two round, white, self-adhesive labels, one for each end of the spool. On one end I wrote, vertically, MON WED FRI and the other is TUES THUR SAT. Oops! Where does SUN go? I turned MON WED FRI sideways and put SUN there in the blank space.
Now I just have to remember to look at it and remember to turn it.
…And wind the clock. That’s not as easy as it sounds…even with my little gift from God.
If this doesn’t quite make sense, read my other post – The Little Things.