Getting Settled in Vincennes (Tuesday, Wednesday)

We have spent the last 2 days dodging thunderstorms.  It has rained sometime during each day, and Wednesday we had a pretty good thunderstorm, including strong wind and hail, come through about 5:00 p.m.

I spent most of Tuesday with Barbara, running around town and then working on our posters in her garage.  We drove out to Slicer's so I could see the room, and stopped by two cemeteries to get the dates for our Memorial display.  We grabbed lunch at Taco Bell, and then we finally got back to her house to get started on our work.  She had most of her assignments already completed, but we worked on our posters and made decisions about how we were going to set up the room.    I had brought most of the poster material with me from Arizona, but I didn't want to actually attach anything until I got here.

 This was a work-in-progress, and we developed more ideas as we went along, so we had to make another trip out to pick up a few more things.  But by the end of the day, we pretty well had worked out how we wanted our posters to look.

It had stormed off and on most of the afternoon, and Barbara turned on the television in her garage so we could keep up with the tornado warnings.  Lovely!!  Fortunately, the storm was moving through about 50 miles south of us, so we were not in any danger at that point.  Barbara enjoys the storms, while I HATE THEM.

Wednesday morning, I took Joe to town for his favorite breakfast -- McDonalds, but I took him back home and dropped him off, then I went back to Barbara's.  She had finished up most of the posters, so we only had a couple hours work to do today.  We went by the courthouse to drop off some money to Toni, but she was at lunch so I didn't get to see her.  We stopped at the Dutch Panty to check out their desserts, since we did not include desserts with our catering order.  Barbara is the "cupcake lady" around town so she was going to bring cupcakes and I told her I would either make something or pick something up.  We finished up for the day, and I drove back out to the house in between storms, but we had another big one on the way.  Jim, Dixie and Lucille arrived from Ft. Wayne about an hour ahead of the thunderstorm, so that was good.  We had hoped they were bringing White Castle hamburgers from Terre Haute, but Dixie said she was out of town before she remembered that she intended to stop.  Mom was keeping her entertained with her chatter.

Mom was thrilled to be back at her house, and we eventually, after the storm passed, we went to town to the Ponderosa for dinner, where Fred met us. Some of the roads were flooded but the roads we took were ok.  Rachelle sent a text that she had stopped by with the kids and wanted to know where everyone was.  They had lost their electricity, but by the time we got home and she came back by, her electricity had been restored.  Fortunately, it did not go out at Lucille's house, or in our RV.