Luncheon preparations

We're going to have some twenty guests over tomorrow for lunch during a reunion of retirees from the office where my mother used to work. So we're in a mad scramble here at home to prepare our daylight basement to receive our guests. The tablecloths on the tables downstairs had to be changed, dust wiped off chairs that came out from storage and electric fans put in strategic places. My mother brought out from our buffet the silverware and dinnerware which rarely see the light of day except when we have company then I helped wash, wipe and arrange them downstairs on the kitchen counter.