WHAT WE WON IN THE DIVORCE SETTLEMENT......and a Clydesdale.

Let me make that statement clearer.....
the piano is on loan....
A gift to daughter while she was married....... she got to keep
it in the divorce settlement....NYC apartments not
being size appropriate for such a large
instrument........ it was confiscated by the gift-giving parents...
Which would be us....

Daughter thought it would be carefully stored in our
basement.....Wrong.....first it cost a small fortune to have the thing delivered to Georgia and they charge according to
how many steps they have to carry it up or down....so there way no way
it was going down 18 steps....
Plus it's beautiful....I wasn't about to put it in the
basement....

When it resided at the Princeton Homestead the ex-sil
refused to have the top raised up....dust? I don't know his
reasoning.....It's meant to have the top raised...
That is what a feather duster was made for....
When deciding where it was going to go we agonized for the
two months it was in transit..........
It was the Boss who suggested the entrance foyer....

Who knew he had a flair for decorating.....
I thought about it but just couldn't decide....I even sent off an
e-mail to Savvy Southern Kim asking her advise.....
When she said she had never decorated with a piano before and
then asked...."Isn't your sofa in the Great Room very casual from Pottery Barn"
Why yes it is....and not only that But let's not
forget the American Buffalo Head and the 2 Deer heads....
She might have been on to something....How do you put a
elegant Baby Grand Piano....in a house with Taxidermy
and odd other items that we can only characterize as
"Kitchy"
or maybe a bit eccentric....

I'm one of those people that ask opinions but then do
what I like....I like this....A Lot.....
We did move the hunt table and the lamp that you see to the left
in the picture so it's just the piano....
It fit perfectly on top of the Persian Rug....

 Then taking his new found decorating skills to an all
time low..... I knew the piano placement idea was a fluke....
The Boss decided we needed something special over
the English Bench.....
I saw a Union Jack Flag framed in a nice black shadow box
but it was too small for above the bench....
But it did match all my black framed pictures that now
Hang going up our staircase...
I suggested we buy it and add maybe a clock of some kind along with it.......
The Italian Version of "Vern Yip"
vetoed that idea..... 

I must have been having a weak moment or I just
wasn't paying attention while wandering through Englishman's.....So Please spare me the jokes and
the insults....Don't say "why would you add big ornate gold
frames in the same room as the Buffalo and the Deers...."
And what in the Hell.....is that a horse?
No Not one horse.....but two....and a rider....

Just realize that someday your husband could also go nuts and
lose all sense of what goes with what....
You just have to go with the flow and hope that one day
you will quietly move them away (Like I did with the bad Steve McQueen Print) and hope he doesn't notice
that they are gone....In the meantime he is in love with
these damn pictures......

As for me.....when I come down the stairs every morning
All I can think of is.....
"Oh My God I have a miniature paint-by-number of a
Clydesdale in my house...."