Linking up with Five Minute Friday as I write for 5 minutes on the word prompt: Door.
There are 4 very old, dirty doors in our shed. We salvaged them from my husband’s grandparents’ century-old home last fall. His grandparents have been gone for many years, and the house was sold and then a few years later reverted back to the bank. Then there was a fire. No one knows how or why. But the family bought it back — house and surrounding land. Land to farm; house to demolish. Sad. We wanted anything that could be repurposed. Woodwork. Stair posts. Doors. So many possibilities. (Thank you, Pinterest.) Will these doors become shelves? Or mirrors? Maybe a headboard in a bedroom. Doors of the past gracing the homes of great-grandchildren. I love that. I see a postcard attached to the back of each one — the story of Frank and Grace. Legacies…