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My wife is nuts about antique clocks. We have over a dozen. She spends most of an hour every Saturday winding them and setting them and adjusting them. On Saturday at noon it sounds like a clock shop in the house. She has one small antique clock in our bedroom that when it runs I call it the Metronome. Tic tick tick tick at a very loud noise. I stop it before I go to bed. That one does not get to run at night. The rest I have learned to tun out and usually I have no memory of their chiming through the day. Sometime in the evening while we are watching TV 5 different clocks in the living room will all start gonging, chiming, dinging, donging, and ringing and we kust pause TV to wait for the clatter to stop.
She has a local clock repair guy on speed-dial and she has he come by here on occasion to play clock whisperer on persnickety clocks. I know to not touch them.
She never blinks when I buy tools, scissor lift, or a new set of tires or brake pads so it is a good trade off.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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