EPISODE 11, SEASON 1

The Winslow's don't own a VCR! In order to raise some extra cash to purchase the machine, Laura organizes a family garage sale. The items for sale are slim pickings and its a struggle to pull anything out of Carl's grasp; whether its an old tennis racquet, catchers mitt, or his bell-bottom pants that he wore to Woodstock ... the movie. Mother Winslow is heading to an elderly sleep-over party at her friend Carletta's and at the last minute gives Laura permission to sell anything out of her large cardboard box of old items, but with one exception, Laura cannot sell the quilt on the top of the box. Bad weather rolls in and puts a damper on the garage sales progress and Eddie and Judy prove to be lackluster supporters and ditch the sale. Desperate to sell anything, Laura caves to a multi-hundred dollar offer for her Grandmothers quilt that had been left out on a table underneath some other sale items. Post-sale its revealed that the quilt is 200 years old and has been passed down six generations and added to by each Winslow family daughter. Laura is gutted by this revelation and commits to searching for the rest of her life to find the woman who purchased the quilt, however, Carl tries to squash her hopes by letting her know that if she doesn't find a lead within 24 hours she may never solve the case. Thankfully Edward had been taking random photos of things when he was outside during a lightning storm and inadvertently captured photographic evidence of the quilt-purchasing woman's car. Carl uses his police force access to run her license plate and track down her place of work at an art gallery where they are displaying the quilt with a price tag of $3,000.00! The woman refuses to return the quilt and offers them a "reasonable" discount price of $2,800.00, but after a quasi-tearful plea by Laura she agrees to return the family their quilt. Carl and Laura return home and present Mother Winslow the rescued quilt. Mother Winslow precedes to explain how that even though she does not have a daughter to pass the quilt onto, she will pass it onto Harriette who can then pass it onto Laura, and when each of them dies the remaining daughter sews in a patch representing the fallen. The episode ends with Laura and Mother Winslow professing their love for each other, and Aunt Rachel rubs Edwards knee for some reason.

LESSON: Take two minutes to put your priceless valuables away, even if you are running late to a sleep-over.













He cracks us all up, Eddie.