The chair.

When we first purchased the lake house, Linda said that for Christmas she wanted a chair for the grand children. The chair was not just any chair, it had to be the same as the chair that my mother had in her kitchen. The chair that my mother had, was purchased for me when I was a baby, so the chair is over 50 years old, and has been used by 5 children, 16 grand children and we are starting on the great grand children. The chair has also been used by the adults in the family to demonstrate the width of their bottoms. (They can fit in the chair or can not). To make the task of getting the chair harder, Linda wanted the chair to fit the counter in the new kitchen. A search of the internet identified the chair as a "shaker youth chair". No one had a shaker youth chair designed for kitchen counters, so after a number of calls to shaker furniture makers, we found a person in Maine that would build us a chair. I ordered the chair in September 2004. In the summer of 2005, the chair was built, but the seat was not completed. We wanted to get a rush seat (the original chair has a rush seat), so the builder had sent the seat out to be completed. The person that was supposed to complete the seat never did, and by winter 2005, we told the builder to put a shaker seat on the chair. The chair has been living in the basement until this weekend. This weekend was the first time that Will (our grandson) got to use the chair in the new kitchen.