About fifteen years ago my wife and I bought a grandfather clock. It is a beautiful piece of furniture and it keeps impeccable time …as long as you remember to pull the weights regularly. We still have it today and it is still a timeless piece of furniture …pardon the pun. And it keeps time now as well as it did the first day we purchased it.
I remember the first day that it was delivered. We found the perfect spot in the house for it, then we sat admiring it’s beauty and smiled at each other as it chimed it’s melody for us every hour, half hour, and even every quarter hour. This was great and even somewhat endearing until bedtime.