Getting Ready to Leave (Tues.)

Today is the day we start working toward leaving Vincennes.  Joe still has some unfinished "Lucille" projects -- 2 kitchen chairs in the shop; furnace still waiting on parts; replaster under living room window.  Unfortunately, he was unable to move any of these things along.  The chairs still aren't done -- maybe tomorrow.  The furnace guy isn't sure they have the right part but Joe did make contact with someone else who thinks he has the part and that might get taken care of tomorrow.  And Joe didn't hear from the replaster guy.  Maybe tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I moved forward with my projects.  We got the car washed and stopped by the cemetery in Oaktown where my sister is buried.  I got the laundry caught up, and the bathroom cleaned.  And most of the stuff stored under the bed.  And we made a grocery run and picked up just a few things.  Still need to vacuum and finish putting some loose stuff away.

On our trip to Oaktown we tracked down some field-fresh strawberries at McKinley Orchard/Prairie Acres.  These had come in from the field but they told us the strawberries they had earlier came from some "tunnels" they had plants in.  Well, of course, Joe had to go see if he could find these tunnels.  But he did know what they were talking about -- open-ended hothouses.  And we did find some right up Old 41.

We could see strawberry plants and what looked like tomato plants.  Couldn't tell what else was in there.

We headed back out to the house and Joe messed with the furnace for a while but was only able to confirm what he had diagnosed last week.  Lucille was going to the funeral home this evening in honor of a niece, Loretta Holscher.  Fred came out for a while to keep Joe company (which got Joe out of some of his "honey do" jobs for me), then we headed into town for dinner and groceries.

At dinner, one of our former classmates, Faye Hacker Hess, stopped by our table so we got to visit with her.  She was unable to attend our class get-together last week because she had company from out of town, so it was a stroke of luck that we were able to hook up.

We have a short to-do list in the morning and hope to head out before noon.  Weather forecast is for partly cloudy with wind but the storms aren't due until Thursday and Friday so hopefully we will be further down the road by then.  Our first stop is probably going to be at the White Castle in Evansville, so Joe will finally get to have his White Castle hamburgers!!!