My aunt, who lived across the street, let me play with my cousin's, away with high school band practice, pre-war Lionel set. My mother got my grandfather to build a "train board" and together, they gave me a Marx set on the board for the
next Christmas. As for women and hobbies, some men don't have hobbies, and some
women collect dolls, my aunt collected antique furniture (actively and aggressively),
my grandmother (who also collected china figurines) and mother made quilts (my grandmother was a whiz at cranking out quilts and stuff on an old treadle Singer sewing machine) and some of their own clothes, other women have green thumbs and grow flowers and gardens. Some times I think, "What the heck IS she interested in!?", but then I have to remember all the above.
