The look on his face said, "Oh please No?"...lol... He saw a lot of work and a lot of money, and even if he doesn't like to admit it, he is a romantic who doesn't like to let down his sweetheart of 50+ years. So we talked and we dreamed and .... we walked away
It was the find of the year or maybe even more! As a kindred spirit, as Anne of Green Gables would have called the kind of friendship my mother-in-law and I had, I saw what she saw!
My in-laws come here to Wyoming each summer from Florida to spend a few months with us. Those months are my Favorite months of the year. I have come to cherish the time they are here and my least favorite day of each year is the day they leave.
Last summer while they where here we went "Junkin" at a old home. It was going to be torn down and the new owner had told me to help myself to anything I wanted from it... music to my ears. On one of my trips to gather my spoils, she saw it. It was sitting out to the back of the house. Weeds almost 3 feet high around it. Paint chipping and an old homemade wood particleboard door, a broken window & flat tires. It was a sad little thing, but somehow in the memories of her childhood that it brought back to her, it was beautiful!
We didn't get it that day and they some where headed back to Florida for the winter.
Through those cold Wyoming months I couldn't stop thinking about the look she had on her face. So as the snow had melted and the green was coming back into the yard, I used a little bribery on my son and his friends, three teenage boys, teens always want something, right? Usually freedom to roam...
Well they wanted something, I wanted something.... they brought it right to my yard, and the adventure began :)
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