Cracked and broken dishes

Every morning I sit and read the newspaper on the couch in the living room, which faces the street. This morning, as I was reading, and husband CB was in another room at the computer, there was a thunderous and tumultuous crashing. What could it be?

Not quite as devastating as the picture above, yet it sounded like that many dishes fell from the china cabinet. It was a big shock! The glass shelf on the upper part sheared off and Ken Edwards Mexican pottery was in pieces. Bowls and a tea pot were smashed to pieces, as well as some other glasses.

It is sad because my mother (who died in 1992) bought the Ken Edwards china for me when we moved to Dallas from Corpus Christi in 1985. Sometime since then he stopped making his pottery in Mexico.

So we've had two recent "disasters" at our house--the flooded bedroom and now the broken china. (It turns out that some of the plastic brackets holding the glass had broken off, so that the glass had little support and broke.)