Lookie at what Peepaw and Meemaw got today!
I work with a woman named Kathy (the groomer at my job) and she mentioned to me the other day that she remembered me saying I was looking for a china hutch. Her sister, Brenda, is moving out of a large home into a smaller one and was wanting to "get rid" of some of her furniture and didn't want to bother with having a yard sale. Kathy told her not to sell this hutch until she told me about it. When she told me what Brenda was selling it for along with the matching dining room table and chairs, I about fell out of my chair. It is incredibly reasonable and I about told her I would buy it, sight unseen. She had Brenda's son email me photos of everything. After work today, Peeps and I caravaned to Brenda's house. They had the furniture out on her carport all ready for us to load and even had carefully wrapped the glass shelves in newspaper for safe travel. I have Peepaw's mother's dishes in it now. They are so precious to me and we use them every Sunday. We've got the old table and chairs out in the yard barn and will keep it for someone who might need it one day. Grandmommy and I picked out that table and chairs when I was about 12 years old. It's been moved around all over the country. We've sat at that table and shared meals with those most precious to us. Our little animals have wound their way around the legs of the chairs and there have even been puppies to teethe on it. We've sat at that table and played games and we've cried in heartwrenching grief over the deaths of loved ones at that table. If it's possible to love a table, then we do. We love that old table. And it will stay in safe storage until it's needed again.
We're enjoying really cold nights and mornings. We've had to scrape frost off of the windshield of our vehicles for quite a few mornings now. I love, love, love the wintertime and am so grateful that if we have slippery roads on a workday, my co-workers understand that I won't risk my life to get there at a certain time and they will cover for me until I can get there. Peepaw has that same deal at his job and that is a real blessing. Even on some of the snowiest days last winter, we noticed that the highway crews kept our mountain roads clear with one or two exceptions. We're also looking forward to getting a woodburning stove installed soon. We found one in Johnson City that we both like (my only request was that it have a glass door so we can see the fire) and we're pretty sure it will fit right into the existing fireplace. That forced hot air is not healthy to breathe in all the time plus the coziness of a fire is something I've been looking forward to since we moved to Possum Cough. We will also make sure that whatever we end up with can be used to cook on in case we lose power.
Well, we're eating late tonight so I'll close for now and tend to supper.
We love and miss you all very much.
Meemaw
