let me explain

I've got some "splain'in" to do....  Several years ago a friend gave us a picture of our house that he found in the records office downtown.  We hadn't known it at one time existed, but there it was in plain sight: an eyebrow window.  Ever since he gave us the photo we've had it framed hanging inside, beside our front door.  We've dreamed of "making it right", putting the eyebrow back.  Lately Jeff & Dibs have been riding their bikes to work.  Friday afternoon, biking home, they noticed that the Old Brown Victorian on 4th east and 5th north was getting a new roof installed.  Jeff came to a screeching halt.  He asked the roofer if they were going to be reinstalling the "eyebrow" that they had just thrown to the ground.  Rooferdude said he thought they were just "pitching it".  After a phone call to the foreman Jeff was told he could HAVE IT.  He sped home for the truck and 20 minutes later he began the task of stripping the old paint off of the window frame.  The original glass is cracked, it took the 20 foot fall, but we're going to leave it and caulk it or something...the small crack is to the side, very overlook-able.  Jeff isn't done with the project, but it's well on  the way.  So fun!!  I still can't believe that they just GAVE it to us.  We never would have been able to afford to do this project.  

I wonder when our eyebrow was plucked out of our roof?  We can tell by the attic that our roof has suffered a fire in it's history.  The original beams are charred with new ones next to them.  I'm guessing our original eyebrow met it's demise in that incident.  

It's amazing to think we actually are doing this!  I think the original builder is happy for us to live in this house!!!  So many things have happened to help us make the house right again--what a blessing...we're so thankful!         :)