Egg salad sandwiches. I’m pretty sure that’s what she served. And sweet gherkins in a glass pickle dish. We probably drank iced tea while seated knee-to-knee at the formica table right here, our backs to the window.
And pie. I suspect we had pie. Or heaping bowls of ice cream.
It was the first time he’d brought me to meet his parents—this couple with a Tow-Low in the drive, a Mercedes in the garage, and a John Deere in the barn.
She showed me her “museum” downstairs—farm implements and pictures and memorabilia and old calendars attached to the barnwood-covered wall.
The whole house ticked and tocked from an array of antique clocks that chimed every fifteen minutes upstairs and down.
In the evening we traveled back to the 1700s as we sat cross-legged on the living room floor. We turned pages of albums and scrapbooks and listened to stories of the past.
I’m standing on holy ground over at my dear friend, Kimberly’s. Won’t you slip off your shoes and join us for the rest of this story? And perhaps link up a post of your own?
Thank you for sharing such beautiful thoughts and words, dear one!
Thank blessed me big time by asking. Thanks so much, friend.
I’m heading over!
I’m following you over. 🙂
Love that photo!
Thanks, David. We replaced the front door when we first moved in. I originally painted it red. I’ve been thinking about going back to that color, given my fairly recent obsession with red and hope. But I kinda like the green in that photo.
Still caught up in the photo, although I did head over to finish “the rest of the story.” Reminded me of my grandparents homestead.
🙂 🙂
Hi Snady – Thank you for dropping by mayfirst! Lovely to get to know you – and loved tick-tock. However – you have NOT been married 40 years and are a grandma!! I gotta go back and re-read that – I must have mis-read. Isn’t this blog connection amazing? Also – just today I had been pondering Buechner’s quote on gladness and hunger – it arrived for me on July 17, 2000, a pivotal day – and has encouraged me ever since – and here it was again –
You’re my favorite person today, Sue. But alas, yes. I will soon be eligible for Social Security. Not that I’ll take it then. 😉
So glad to meet another Buechner groupie, and I meant to tell you how much I love your last name.