Here is a picture of our piano. Jane's brother brought it out to us this weekend. Her parents bought it for her when she was in fifth grade. We had it for awhile when we lived in our own home in Buda, but took it back to her mom's when we moved to Ohio. I think it looks rather grand sitting in our living room again. It is likely that it carries memories better than a tune at this point. The birds sitting on top of it had been Jane's grandmother's - that she used to let Jane play with when she was a child. We found them in storage at her mom's house.
I was a bit worried about getting the thing inside our house. I was afraid we might have to tip it on its side - which we did when we moved it before - but we had good help and it was a piece of cake. Some of the young guys from church just picked it up and carried it inside. Whew!
I don't know if you can make it out (maybe if you click on the picture), but on top of the bookshelf to the right is a violin that my great-great-grandfather made (Friedolein Valentine Horwedel). It is a 3/4 violin, but is in excellent shape. If I *could* play it, I'm sure it would sound.... okay. :)
Instruments... they can carry more than just a tune.
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What I see when I click:
1 impecably clean room
1 piano w/nice woodwork
3 Ansel Adams phots w/good taste
1 familiar looking remote
1 picture of daughter b&w
(from this I have extrapolated the one next to her is probably 1 picture of son b&w)
1 coaster set, same as I've got
1 book "for Dummy's"
Everything seems to be in order here, carry on.
Good eye. But you missed the candles and the papers, and the... :)
Actually, the room IS clean - we just steamed the carpet Friday. The remote is just like your old one, except the letters and numbers are almost worn off of ours (Yours looked unused). The "Dummy's" book is either for photography or poetry - there is one of each there.
Carrying on.
Oh, and that's a United Methodist hymnal sitting on the piano. From the now non-existent Buda United Methodist church (BUM church) where I attended occasionally as a youth.
I would like to point out that if you look along the bookshelf you can see that whoever vaccums makes sure the lines the vaccum leaves behind are perfectly straight.
and the green candy dish...never noticed that in all my years of living there.
I think the green candy dish might be from grandma's too.
And... the lines simply MUST be straight! :)
Is that a coaster on the recliner? I wouldn't recommend putting your drink there.
MR,
Yes indeedy, that is a coaster. We like to live DANGEROUSLY around our house. :)
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