Say Hello to My Little Friend

Serious. Say "Hello!" because this little friend is here to STAY! Eric came across a website a couple weeks ago and found that our school district was getting rid of some old pianos. Since we have a goal to move and that means my current piano I have (thank you, BETH!!) will not be traveling with us, we thought we should start shopping around for a piano. Who knew we'd find one that quick!
Anyway, the story is worth telling. We took a friend who works on pianos (read, has great expectations in a piano). He gave his recommendations and we bid. Of course, he felt that what was available wasn't worth a penny and told us not to waste our time. We, obviously, didn't actually listen to him. We bid on one piano he recommended and another he didn't give the time of day. The second piano had suffered unknown damage and was in quite a terrible state. We bid on it ONLY to get the piano trucks off it and to use them on the "better" piano since it was the only piano with a set of working wheels.
Well, we won both of those auctions and brought the babies home today. With a bit of TLC and elbow grease, the pianos look SO much better. AND, the big surprise...we chose to keep the poor, greasy, water damaged piano (you know, the one we only bid on because of the piano trucks). Turns out we like it better and will be giving the second piano to a family member. Who knew such a treasure was under all of that mess! (Eric has plans to refinish it, too, but for now, it sounds pretty good and looks incredible for how it started out.)
For $10, we are going to have a lot of fun with this piano and are super happy!!