Yesterday was a regular Sunday afternoon at our house. It was glorious autumn weather, and after putting up a birdfeeder in our backyard, I planned to sit in the sunshine with a book. But then I got a text message
Just over a year ago, we moved from our 5 acre property to a home in town. We are well settled here, and as far as I know, so are the purchasers of our old place. As it turns out, they have plans to do some insulating in a space formed by a bedroom wall and the slope of the roof behind it. They opened up that space and that is where the hard work (for them) and magic (for us) began.
The message I received said that they had found a desk and some other things sealed up behind the wall. Just after we moved there, many years ago, the side wall of a small closet was open to the unfinished area. I had forgotten, but I do recall my son putting a small desk that he had no use for into that space. Later, the hole was covered with drywall and the desk forgot forgotten.
Well! As it turns out, there was a whole lot more there than an old desk. The current owners had every right to kick what could’ve been seen as junk to the curb. Instead, they said they’d found some things we might want to pick up.
Boy, oh boy, were they right.
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