Must have been 15 years ago, I was visiting down at J and B's and WB said did I want Grandma Tingle's chair. Sure, I said, sort of noncommittal because he never gave me anything, but it seemed as if in some family way he wanted to pass it along to me. So I took it--though I can't remember how I got it up to SB--and then a month or so later he called and said he wanted it back, and I said, sure. I guess he missed it, but then later he said he didn't want it back, and so it has sat in our condo living room for 15 years, I guess.
During the remodel, I took it out in the garage and applied several coats of wax. No way to get the stains and such out, short of a complete refinishing, but the waxed shined it up a bit and the wood was getting dry. It kept sopping up that wax.
Looks OK.
I don't think it qualifies as an antique or anything like that. I don't know how old it is, though I expect it is probably as old as I am.
I wish a remembered Grandma more fondly. But I think she was pretty much done with having little kids around (and she didn't like Joan either) by the time I was running through her corn rows. That's about all I remember, her yelling at me for running through her corn rows though I still don't know why that was such a big deal or why as a kid I felt some sort of compulsion to run through them.
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