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You know you may be getting old when,

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You know you may be getting old when,

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You know you may be getting old when,

Keith Newton

Things you made in your early career find their way back to you for refinishing.

I got a call from and just met with an old friend who manages the gift shop down at the Clinton Library. She had called me to see if I would come look at a desk that needed some finish work which they brought down from Chappaqua NY where they live. Neither she nor the chief of staff knew I was the maker. Turns out it was the desk I made for Hillary in 1988 when Bill was Governor of AR. When they left LR for the White House, the designer who chose the furnishings, wall colors, curtains, curtains and such didn't work it into the WH decor, so I failed to get that career boost like Sam Maloof. Now Bill wants to use it in their space upstairs. Of course I’ll be taking that small job. Ha ha, Maybe call it fate, but funny how things happen.

I'll post some pics when I get it back and can shoot it with digital camera.

Re: You know you may be getting old when,

#2

Please do, Keith; lookin' forward to it.


Re: You know you may be getting old when,

#3

Re: Please do, Keith; lookin' forward to it.

Barry Irby

I thought it was going to be something like "I have started turning the car radio down so I can see better."

Yours is much more impressive.

When I was in high school, I was working an after school job, Working four hours a day in my Dad's dairy, and building a table for someone I had agreed to do before leaving for college. I was so tired I did not know where I was most of the time.

Years later they brought the table back for a minor repair. It was a display table for a collection of arrow heads they had. The table had a tricky secret door to install the collection. I told them they should take it back to whoever made it because I couldn't figure it out. They literally gave me an open mouthed stare.

Re: You know you may be getting old when,

#4

Who have you been talking to, and what have you he

Jim Matthews

"I have started turning the car radio down so I can see better."

I resemble that remark.

I have to take off my "Readers" to hear better...

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