"Your letter was waiting for me when I came home from work yesterday noon. Was rather surprised but I always look in the mail box (or rather cigar box) every day."
In Grandpa's letter back to Grandma on August 5, he responds:
"You always want to look in cigar boxes dear so that you won't be surprised--sometimes it's hard on the heart and I don't want my little girl to have heart failure you know. Besides you can't always tell what you will find in cigar boxes, you might even find me there some night."
I did some checking and could not find any reference to a mailbox being called a cigar box. So I can only assume this was an inside joke between the two lovebirds.
TOTAL WORD COUNT SO FAR FOR THE MONTH WHICH INCLUDES 39 TRANSCRIBED LETTERS TO DATE = 31,868
I used to keep all of my "treasures" in a cigar box that looks much like the one pictured. Every so often I would pull it out.....perhaps to look at old photos residing therein.....once to find a tooth that the dentist had extracted. Why did I keep it? Must be the Pandora in me.
ReplyDeleteThis made me smile… especially as a friend gave me a cigar box a couple of years ago and it's where I keep the jewelry pieces that I'm working on. Love their secret writings!
ReplyDeleteI keep all my embroidery thread in an old cigar box. I have no idea where I got it but I really like it.... :D
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