My Loving Spouse is a tad old-fashioned. In other words, he doesn’t wear…pink…at all. I will confess to having had a load of white laundry turn pink one day. Luckily for us, it was mostly my things and I love pink. There were a few pairs of socks that belonged to My Loving Spouse, which he quickly announced were now mine. A few pairs of his boxer shorts also ended up a tad pink and have been delegated to the back of his underwear drawer. He wears them only in desperation and is uncomfortable about it all day long, muttering things like, “What if anyone found out I have pink panties on?!” I tell you this, so you will understand how uniquely odd it was the other morning for him to be fetching the morning coffee in my bathrobe, my pink bathrobe. His was in the wash and it was a cold, very cold morning and I was sick in bed. The conversation went something like this…
“Oh, just wear my bathrobe.”
“I am not going to wear your pink bathrobe.”
“Do you want me to go fetch the coffee?”
“No, I don’t want you to go.”
“So, just wear my bathrobe.”
“What if someone sees’ me?”
“Who is going to see you? The kids are asleep and who comes here at 9:00 am on a Sunday morning?”
“Oh, my God, I cannot believe I am wearing my wife’s robe!” said with great disgust.
The truth is he looked really cute with it on, but the entire world will never know it, as he has declared that he will NEVER EVER wear it again! Did anyone but me see him? Almost! Someone did drive into the yard and get out of their truck with an envelope, but at this point My Loving Spouse was racing through the house in record time for fear that ‘someone’ almost saw him in his wife’s pink robe.
Who came? We didn’t know. What envelope did he leave? Nothing, we looked on every porch for the envelope. It was all very peculiar and we wondered about it all weekend… We came home from errands to find the envelope on the kitchen table…and inside, a wonderful present from the past! Number Two Son met the Morning Stranger, one of the kids of John & Priscilla Brown who lived and loved this home before us. He had brought us a great gift, which we treasure…pictures from the past…not of his family even, but of the original family who built this home. 
We are so very grateful to have this bit of history for this place we love. The pictures will be framed and hung with honor in our respect of the past. We both wish we could have thanked the Giver, the Morning Stranger, in person…one of us even thinks it would have been fine to thank them in a pink robe.
Great to get these photos. And without Pat having to go out in the pink bathrobe,too
He looked sweet in pink!
What a delightful treat! How thoughtful of this Morning Stranger to understand that these photos needed to be shared. Surely, all of the owners of this treasured home are very special people!!!
Thank you my dear friend!
What great photos! I may have already told you this, but many years ago I mailed copies of some old photos to the owners of Grandma Jensen’s house. Gary and I had gone down to visit Amy, and I wanted to see the house again. So we drove over there, and it turned out the owners were having a garage sale that day! And they were absolutely thrilled to meet someone related to the original owners of the house. They were a very nice couple, and invited us into the house to look around. It was really fun to see it again! Once I got back home I mailed some photos to them. (One of them was your Mom and my Mom sitting in front of the fireplace!) They sent me a thank you and were so excited to get the photos, and said they framed them and hung them in the downstairs hallway. I always have wanted to go back and see if they still live there, because they were so sweet! One of these days we will stop by there and do that!
Oh, wouldn’t I love to walk through Grandma’s house again!! I think I will Google earth it! Thanks, Sue!
What a wonderful gift! You just attract nice people to you and your farm.
Love those old photos… very cool! You should put the photos on ancestry.com too.
OH WOW! What a treasure these pictures are! I’d scan them into the computer (wait you just did that, I am a dunce), just to have copies, and a good frame shop will have museum glass which is more expensive but has fade resistant qualities, to help preserve these. How fantastic for you!!