Kitchen Chairs (Friday)

Today's mission was to get two of Lucille's kitchen chairs repaired.  She has been nagging at Joe all week about these chairs and he told her he could not repair them.  I asked Barbara for a recommendation and she suggested the Senior Citizens Center here in Vincennes, which happens to have a very nice workshop.  Her husband had taken a rocking chair of hers in there for repair and they were very happy with the results.  So we loaded up the 2 chairs, and Barbara met us at the Center (she had already talked to the guy who runs the workshop).  We expect to have them back by the end of next week.  There are 6 chairs in the set (which are surely over 50 years old) and at least two more probably could use a little work -- tightening at the very least, so we will probably be bringing some more work to the Center. 

Joe left me with Barbara at the Center and he took his crew (Rachael and Cathy) on a scenic trip across the old Cannonball Bridge into Illinois, then on to Mt. Carmel.  Meanwhile, Barbara decided we would look up some old friends.  I got to visit Dee Parker, mother of one of my best friends from my growing-up days and whom I often babysat for, and her sister and the mother of one of my sister's classmates, Helen Carson.  Three of Dee's daughters came by while we were at her house, and Helen's daughter was there when we stopped in there, so it was a very good day.  We also stopped by another classmate, Toni Schultz Holmes, who we happened to see in her front yard.  Barbara was smoking a pork loin to take to her daughter's tomorrow for a grandchild's 8th-grade graduation party, so when she took it off the smoker, she fixed us a pork sandwich -- delicious. 

We headed back out to the country and she dropped me off after a quick visit with Lucille and the rest.  Judy had brought out a huge pork roast yesterday which we had cooked all day in two crockpots, so we had wonderful pulled pork sandwiches for dinner.  And then we played cards.  About 9:30, Mike's family stopped by on their way home from their Little League game (Clayton got a triple), but we did manage to get to bed about midnight.