Silly Post-- In Honor of Trivet(s)

 At the Shelburne Museum, in Shelburne, Vermont, there is an extraordinary collection of trivets.  Here they are in all their variations.

I love all the different shapes, materials, motifs, & decorative flourishes.

I can't wrap my mind around the mind of the person who collected all of these... 

This said by a person who has collected 16 or more egg-beaters....

Question: does the name trivet refer to tri-vets?  (= 3 vets?) 

So many of them have three legs.  A 3-legged stool will most always stand!

Well, she answered herself, 3 points define a plane, that's probably the reason.

That's it for now, from Daphne X-Trivett!