An Unexpected Heirloom

Here’s a hint to what’s been going on around here:

The antique chest

This bit of dark awesomeness is a chest that belonged to my father-in-law. And his mother before him. And her father before her. Seriously, we don’t know how old it is.

It’s been tucked into my FIL’s house for years, storing his vast collection ��of photo ��albums. We almost let it go into the estate sale, but at the last minute, neither Himself nor I could let it go. We wrestled it into the car and drove it home, where it now...