June 25, 2013

Chair caning at Carolyn’s:

Carolyn taught Prabha to cane her chair starting bright and early at 9:00 am on Tuesday morning, June 25.

What a great teacher Carolyn is. She had all the necessary tools laid out on the table and the canes soaking even before Prabha arrived at her door step. Of course, Bev got her own private lessons the day before.

The plan was for everyone to have lunch at Carolyn’s after the caning session and before heading out to the Wake Forest Senior Center. Grae kindly offered to help Carolyn with the lunch. Luckily, Carolyn quickly set the record straight by telling her that she would welcome Grae’s help if she was preparing the lunch, but we were expected to brown bag it.

After lunch everyone headed out (caravan style) to the senior center where they were joined by Sue and Jan. The ladies at the senior center were very welcoming and the facilities were nice. Bev took such wonderful care of the group, making sure we were comfortable and had everything we needed. She made the coffee and was a very gracious hostess, even though we did not expect it of her – since we were at the senior center.

Many of the ladies dropped by in groups to ooh and aah at our work and then remark that she did not have the patience for this. So every time some one said this. Rhoda would role her eyes. After the 5^th person made this remark, she declared that she was going to scream when the next person said this. Prabha helped her out with a mild “scream” when that happened.

We did get one person evince an interest in learning to lace. Let us hope she will do so.

The group was rather well behaved – as we did not want to embarrass Bev.