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Last week, we got a very special delivery to the house. It arrived in a old red pickup truck and a trailer.

Within minutes, this beauty was set up in what might normally be a formal dining room. Don and I are not exactly formal dining room people. If we're going to do formal dining, I'd prefer it be in a restaurant. But we knew when we designed the floorplan for this house that we'd need space for a piano, and this room was perfect with all of its natural light and open space.

The piano is a 1921 Kimball, and it was a gift from Don's parents. A very generous one, at that. They'd had it for years, and it went largely untouched for most of those years. While it's not in perfect condition and will need a little bit of love, it's absolutely playable.

In fact, I had a fabulous time going through my piles of music on Saturday and working my way through them. I'm rusty, that's for sure. But I'm so excited to have something to play on again!

Sorry for the crappy cell phone picture with bad lighting. But thanks to Don for taking it!

This room is right at the bottom of the stairs, and it's been so fun to come downstairs in the morning and see the piano there. Even though Don doesn't play, we both really, really love having the piano in our home. And after giving an impromptu concert to the cats over the weekend, I'm almost motivated to take some lessons again. Almost.