Tuesday-Wednesday (4/15-4/160

Tuesday.  I guess spring has come and gone.  We all survived a very cold night.  I don't think we had any frost, but the wind sure kept the house cold.  I finally turned my "warmer" all the way up to try to find a warm spot in bed.  I think it was 34 this morning, but a very cold wind.  When I came downstairs, Lucille was already up and dressed.  Joe, Jim and I went into Denny's for breakfast, and Dixie stayed home and did chores. 

The birthday cards keep coming in, today's mail brought 9.  She did get another "letter" from the Indiana House of Representatives acknowledging her 98th birthday.  Billie stopped by in the afternoon and brought her a box of candy from Charlies, but otherwise it was a pretty quiet day.

An amazing sight after dinner tonight, Joe got up and started washing dishes.  This is something that just doesn't happen!  Jim dried, but he does that all the time.  Joe must have thought he needed to take on more duties in the care-taking role, but it's good for me.  ( I think we had leftovers, so it was a "light" dish night, but still.)

Tonight I was included in the group, mostly from church, going over to Mt. Carmel to the play put on by the Church Basement Ladies, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement."  I rode over with Barbara, after a drive through the cemetery where my family is buried at Princeton.  The play was quite funny, and very enjoyable.  Even more entertaining was getting Judy back to Vincennes.  She had driven down from Lawrenceville (getting lost 3 times trying to find the college where the play was performed).  Barbara offered to have her follow us back to Vincennes on the way home, so we dropped her off at her car.  But somehow while we were turning around in the parking lot behind her car, she thought we got in front of her, so she hurriedly took off, following a car in front of her, while we were behind her supposed to be leading.  It was confusion for a while, and we almost ended up in Albion, Illinois, but she finally answered the cell phone, we got her stopped and turned around, and we finally all got headed in the right direction.  Something else Barbara and I will laugh about for years to come.
  

Wednesday.  The Birth Day brought our much-needed sunshine, and even though it remains cold, the sunshine does help.  Joe and I went to a funeral this morning, the sister of  from high school friend, Ed Williams.  Following the funeral, and lunch in town, we drove across the river to see some watermelon plants that had been set out under plastic.  We were told that they will survive down to 29 degrees, and it looked like they had survived.

Another "happening" event in Vincennes is the destruction of the old Executive Inn, located just as you come into town from the north.  "During the 1980's and 1990's this hotel was amazing. The restaurant had some of the best food in town. Lots of entertainers would come to town to do shows in the convention center."  I remember this as a very popular place back in the day, but it has been an eyesore for some time so it's good that it's coming down.

More birthday cards arrived in today's mail, and Lucille received a pretty bouquet of flowers from Judy Kay.

We went into town for the birthday dinner at a new restaurant, Gilbert's.  Fred and Judy met us there, and we had a very nice meal (although they did not provide a cake for the birthday girl).  But Fred gave her a 2-lb. box of turtles from Charlies, so we were not without a sweet.

Just after we got home, Mike and Rachelle and the kids stopped by to share their birthday wishes, and she got several phone calls throughout the day and evening from family, so the event was well celebrated.