20 OCTOBER 2007, Page 47

Yard Sale

Oh, but it is incalculable — this side yard full of her things laid out on folding tables ranged along a chain link fence.

Her Tupperware cake saver takes precedence over egg timers hand mixers, Pyrex, 4-H ribbons, and forty-seven souvenir shot glasses, one from almost every State. The cake saver's ridged base (slip-proof in a swerving car) holds fast a translucent milky dome with crossover plastic handles yellowed now after how many years transporting her prize devil's food to summer camp at Raccoon Lake.

Fay Hart