(1964 November 2)
I am making a blue and navy checked duster for Aunt Lois who can't be fitted in store-boughten clothes as she likes shirts fairly long. She can wear this either as a robe or dress. May include sample. Is cuddly. Put the collar on this aft and have the pockets and buttons left.
April 30, 2010
April 29, 2010
Answering machine
(1964 October 21)
A little joke: MM wanted me to go with her one night to the little [convenience] store for pop and cigarettes. I said no - "Why not?" Thinking fast, I said, "I'll stay here to answer the phone." She was gone about 5 minutes, but when she came in, I was taking a call for L from Chicago!!
A little joke: MM wanted me to go with her one night to the little [convenience] store for pop and cigarettes. I said no - "Why not?" Thinking fast, I said, "I'll stay here to answer the phone." She was gone about 5 minutes, but when she came in, I was taking a call for L from Chicago!!
April 28, 2010
Intruder
(1964 October)
I knew I missed telling you something when I mentioned Edith [Tuxford] before! Well, when she came home from the hospital, in Ellen's room the window and screen were both broken and glass skattered all over the room. A frightening sight! Nothing was disturbed, nothing missing. It did not look to be the work of a child. Dick [son-in-law] thought the police should be called. They came and could deduce nothing. Neighbors knew nothing. The next thing to do was to get Joe R. to put in a new glass and he knew right away what it was. A partridge had got off its course and hit against the window with great force. Joe even found a few feathers! He recalled the same thing happening at Bancrofts and one other place. Remarkable?
I knew I missed telling you something when I mentioned Edith [Tuxford] before! Well, when she came home from the hospital, in Ellen's room the window and screen were both broken and glass skattered all over the room. A frightening sight! Nothing was disturbed, nothing missing. It did not look to be the work of a child. Dick [son-in-law] thought the police should be called. They came and could deduce nothing. Neighbors knew nothing. The next thing to do was to get Joe R. to put in a new glass and he knew right away what it was. A partridge had got off its course and hit against the window with great force. Joe even found a few feathers! He recalled the same thing happening at Bancrofts and one other place. Remarkable?
April 27, 2010
Drip
(1964 October)
Our bedroom roof leaked and had to be patched. One night L woke me to hear the drip. Then he got up and got a pie tin and put under it. So helpful. Drop: "ping".
Our bedroom roof leaked and had to be patched. One night L woke me to hear the drip. Then he got up and got a pie tin and put under it. So helpful. Drop: "ping".
April 26, 2010
Mousers
(1964 August 25)
Monday Penelope [cat] left a little hamburger sticking to the paper when she had her breakfast. She then went up to the attic. When I next came into the kitchen, there was a Big Black Mouse finishing it up. I got Dee in to get him, but Dee came back to me chagrined, saying that someone was before him in finishing off Penell's breakfast and wouldn't give him any! Then I chained him outside and came back and the mouse was still eating. Rather under the radiator so hard to hit. I went around all morning with a broom for protection - at last saw mouse calmly sitting in living room and called Joe R. who killed it. Whew. Painter thot I was describing a rat (baby).
Monday Penelope [cat] left a little hamburger sticking to the paper when she had her breakfast. She then went up to the attic. When I next came into the kitchen, there was a Big Black Mouse finishing it up. I got Dee in to get him, but Dee came back to me chagrined, saying that someone was before him in finishing off Penell's breakfast and wouldn't give him any! Then I chained him outside and came back and the mouse was still eating. Rather under the radiator so hard to hit. I went around all morning with a broom for protection - at last saw mouse calmly sitting in living room and called Joe R. who killed it. Whew. Painter thot I was describing a rat (baby).
April 25, 2010
Off to the fair
(1964 June 23)
Marian Kanable was one of five leaders for 69 high-school-student Interfaith group to go to the Fair for a week and see New York. Mabel went too. Buses.
Marian Kanable was one of five leaders for 69 high-school-student Interfaith group to go to the Fair for a week and see New York. Mabel went too. Buses.
April 24, 2010
Barnstorming
(1964 June 23)
We decided to go out quietly for dinner and take a chance on the menu being something Daddy could eat. We had stopped in at the Red Barn to give me a treat as I had never been inside the place. We sat down at an empty table for a few minutes when a hostile waitress in costume and a righteous couple bore down upon us demanding their table and offering us a little one in the back between the BR and the kitchen. You know your father well enough to know it took him just three steps to flounce out the door. So we ended up at the Dutch Kitchen where we had chicken about as we do three days out of seven.
We decided to go out quietly for dinner and take a chance on the menu being something Daddy could eat. We had stopped in at the Red Barn to give me a treat as I had never been inside the place. We sat down at an empty table for a few minutes when a hostile waitress in costume and a righteous couple bore down upon us demanding their table and offering us a little one in the back between the BR and the kitchen. You know your father well enough to know it took him just three steps to flounce out the door. So we ended up at the Dutch Kitchen where we had chicken about as we do three days out of seven.
April 23, 2010
A Polly Kay Original
(1964 May)
One day MM told [husband] Junior to hang a small floral print on a large dining room wall near the ceiling. He took a large nail and whacked hard and out came a piece of plaster as big as your head. I am dreaming up a hanging to cover it. On an unbleached cloth I am sewing a variety of quilt blocks, all different, in old fabrics, thus creating an Early American Hanging - one of those Polly Kay Originals.
One day MM told [husband] Junior to hang a small floral print on a large dining room wall near the ceiling. He took a large nail and whacked hard and out came a piece of plaster as big as your head. I am dreaming up a hanging to cover it. On an unbleached cloth I am sewing a variety of quilt blocks, all different, in old fabrics, thus creating an Early American Hanging - one of those Polly Kay Originals.
April 22, 2010
Potty humor
(1964 May 8)
Well, the other night I was in bed reading Tom Jones when LL put Dee to bed and having previously gathered up his clean clothes for morning and put them in the bathroom, went in himself to prepare for bed, turned on the light, and let out a roar. I had left the cover of the throne up and he had tossed all his clean clothes in the pot, underwear, shirt, sox and handkerchief. "What a disgusting thing!" (quote). I remained calm and continued reading and said to fish them out and put them in the tub and get fresh ones. The water was clean. This he did with all possible expletives and banged every door and drawer. Really it was terribly funny, only I didn't dare crack a smile. I am sure he would have if someone else had been involved. But it has been at least a year since I have seen the poor man so shaken This is too funny to keep, and I haven't told a soul, no one, here. So don't you repeat it either, as I woldn't want to disgrace him.
Well, the other night I was in bed reading Tom Jones when LL put Dee to bed and having previously gathered up his clean clothes for morning and put them in the bathroom, went in himself to prepare for bed, turned on the light, and let out a roar. I had left the cover of the throne up and he had tossed all his clean clothes in the pot, underwear, shirt, sox and handkerchief. "What a disgusting thing!" (quote). I remained calm and continued reading and said to fish them out and put them in the tub and get fresh ones. The water was clean. This he did with all possible expletives and banged every door and drawer. Really it was terribly funny, only I didn't dare crack a smile. I am sure he would have if someone else had been involved. But it has been at least a year since I have seen the poor man so shaken This is too funny to keep, and I haven't told a soul, no one, here. So don't you repeat it either, as I woldn't want to disgrace him.
April 21, 2010
Flies in the ointment
(1964 May 8)
MM had the St. Barnabas Auxiliary at her house [in country] last evening with 11 present.... Two flies in ointment. That cat was let loose and stopped the meeting twice by jumping on people or getting on window sill etc. Also when she went to put the mint ice cream on the cake, [husband] Junior had eaten most of it. I would have skipped it instead of serving such small helpings, but she had planned on its matching the napkins, so went thru with it. The napkins were decorated with violets and she had a big bowl on her coffee table.
MM had the St. Barnabas Auxiliary at her house [in country] last evening with 11 present.... Two flies in ointment. That cat was let loose and stopped the meeting twice by jumping on people or getting on window sill etc. Also when she went to put the mint ice cream on the cake, [husband] Junior had eaten most of it. I would have skipped it instead of serving such small helpings, but she had planned on its matching the napkins, so went thru with it. The napkins were decorated with violets and she had a big bowl on her coffee table.
April 20, 2010
Catholic rhetoric
(1964 late June)
Last Sunday Father Hamilton said the past two Sundays he was giving us us free and this next one he was starting in as our priest and would then divulge his program, which was not to liquidate the Catholic Church etc. Old time speaker. Very entertaining just for phraseology and gestures alone.
Last Sunday Father Hamilton said the past two Sundays he was giving us us free and this next one he was starting in as our priest and would then divulge his program, which was not to liquidate the Catholic Church etc. Old time speaker. Very entertaining just for phraseology and gestures alone.
April 19, 2010
Blue River antiques
(1964 March 1)
Then [after Boscobel] drove on the same side of the river till Blue River where we sought out the What-Not, a very clean and orderly place run by nice people. Beautiful things. Again I was greatly attracted to 2 duck decoys but tho only $1 each I left them there. If they had been carved wood - but cork bodied and wood heads - had rope with weight and all. Daddy paid $1.75 for 2 arrow heads.
Then [after Boscobel] drove on the same side of the river till Blue River where we sought out the What-Not, a very clean and orderly place run by nice people. Beautiful things. Again I was greatly attracted to 2 duck decoys but tho only $1 each I left them there. If they had been carved wood - but cork bodied and wood heads - had rope with weight and all. Daddy paid $1.75 for 2 arrow heads.
April 18, 2010
Boscobel antiques
(1964 March 1)
Yesterday Daddy and I had an outing we had planned all week. MM asked if she could come, so OK. We drove to Boscobel where we visited a second-hand shop near the [Wisconsin] river. Aisles of junk, even racks of clothing. I nearly bot a little miner's lamp and a 3-tined fork but came away with a new rag rug $3.00. The lamp looked like a piece of tin a cow stepped on, but I kept thinking of the miners at Linden etc., and yet when it came to buying it, voted no. There is something that holds me back, and I think it is a feeling of life being short now and many things to be disposed of here without adding to it. As to the forks, John Gould (in his book) mentions how wonderful they are and impossible to buy - yet I have all I need, Grandma Leedom's - they were 50 cents and like those in museum. I got MM a cover for a frying pan, as she has none, and a lemon squeezer, and she bot 2 salt and pepper sets for Mrs. Marshall's collection. Daddy finally sat in the car.
Yesterday Daddy and I had an outing we had planned all week. MM asked if she could come, so OK. We drove to Boscobel where we visited a second-hand shop near the [Wisconsin] river. Aisles of junk, even racks of clothing. I nearly bot a little miner's lamp and a 3-tined fork but came away with a new rag rug $3.00. The lamp looked like a piece of tin a cow stepped on, but I kept thinking of the miners at Linden etc., and yet when it came to buying it, voted no. There is something that holds me back, and I think it is a feeling of life being short now and many things to be disposed of here without adding to it. As to the forks, John Gould (in his book) mentions how wonderful they are and impossible to buy - yet I have all I need, Grandma Leedom's - they were 50 cents and like those in museum. I got MM a cover for a frying pan, as she has none, and a lemon squeezer, and she bot 2 salt and pepper sets for Mrs. Marshall's collection. Daddy finally sat in the car.
April 17, 2010
Fake rugs
(1964 April 1)
She [MM, recently married] is going to buy fake rugs for living room - printed designs of braided rugs, as Junior thinks they are neater than handmade rugs. I had just listened to WHA [public radio about] Union Textile Fair and could hardly bear this blind preference to artifical imitations.
She [MM, recently married] is going to buy fake rugs for living room - printed designs of braided rugs, as Junior thinks they are neater than handmade rugs. I had just listened to WHA [public radio about] Union Textile Fair and could hardly bear this blind preference to artifical imitations.
April 15, 2010
Slimming in German
(1964 March 10)
Last night our German class met and I passed around the magazines [from the German Tourist Bureau] but brot them home again. That new Munich theater must be a beauty, tho. I believe all the class took the La Salle St. address to send for it [the magazine]. Our teacher wanted to take up my offer to have the class meet here and have another party, but the class is very lukewarm. Would rather learn than eat. Nearly all dieting because of Lent or health.
Last night our German class met and I passed around the magazines [from the German Tourist Bureau] but brot them home again. That new Munich theater must be a beauty, tho. I believe all the class took the La Salle St. address to send for it [the magazine]. Our teacher wanted to take up my offer to have the class meet here and have another party, but the class is very lukewarm. Would rather learn than eat. Nearly all dieting because of Lent or health.
April 13, 2010
Sharp eyes
(1964 February 19)
Daddy in jury trial today. Game warden accused farmer of having loaded gun "on a vehicle" - tractor. Farmer says not. Game warden says he saw it thru spy glass.
Daddy in jury trial today. Game warden accused farmer of having loaded gun "on a vehicle" - tractor. Farmer says not. Game warden says he saw it thru spy glass.
April 12, 2010
Best of class
(1964 February 14)
At night to my German class, and when I tell you I am about the best one, you can judge the rest - about 6-8 of us.
At night to my German class, and when I tell you I am about the best one, you can judge the rest - about 6-8 of us.
April 11, 2010
Teflon spatula
(1964 February 14)
The other day at A&P I bot a teflon-lined yellow enameled frying pan for $1.39 but no wooden spatula came with it tho was supposed to - however I am using a wooden salad set and so far so good but hope to whittle or buy a spatula somewhere, maybe at Kiwanis White Elephant sale today.
The other day at A&P I bot a teflon-lined yellow enameled frying pan for $1.39 but no wooden spatula came with it tho was supposed to - however I am using a wooden salad set and so far so good but hope to whittle or buy a spatula somewhere, maybe at Kiwanis White Elephant sale today.
April 10, 2010
Birthday fun
(1964 February 14)
Many many thanks for my birthday presents! I am writing with my pen now and find it very handy to use nightly on my diary also. Daddy gave me a gold pin in the shape of a leaf and a big box of tea. Wardie [Birkett] gave me a gray and white scarf nice with my gray coat. Both of them had cards with funny dogs like Dee. Also I got about half a dozen other cards from friends and relatives. Fun to get. Actually I wasn't feeling too peppy because of my cold - darn it.
Many many thanks for my birthday presents! I am writing with my pen now and find it very handy to use nightly on my diary also. Daddy gave me a gold pin in the shape of a leaf and a big box of tea. Wardie [Birkett] gave me a gray and white scarf nice with my gray coat. Both of them had cards with funny dogs like Dee. Also I got about half a dozen other cards from friends and relatives. Fun to get. Actually I wasn't feeling too peppy because of my cold - darn it.
April 9, 2010
A soft life
(1963 Spring)
Oh - a new blessing! The Culligan Man comes once a month and brings us soft water!
Oh - a new blessing! The Culligan Man comes once a month and brings us soft water!
April 8, 2010
Same holes
(1963 November)
Our phone number will be changed as of the 16th. Instead of MI 7-3282 it will be: 674-3282, Area Code 608. Actually, you put your fingers in the same dial holes only numbers instead of letters.
Our phone number will be changed as of the 16th. Instead of MI 7-3282 it will be: 674-3282, Area Code 608. Actually, you put your fingers in the same dial holes only numbers instead of letters.
April 6, 2010
Tea for me
(1963 October?)
Kiwanis tonight and LL is hoping it won't be Swiss steak again ... I must get my little supper and make tea.
O - tea for me
And me for tea!
Kiwanis tonight and LL is hoping it won't be Swiss steak again ... I must get my little supper and make tea.
O - tea for me
And me for tea!
April 5, 2010
Tempest on TV
(1963 October?)
Sunday night we brot our suppers upstairs and watched "The Tempest" - so good. Ann Rose [Meadows] said the first time she saw it was in beautiful colors at Solbergs. Maurice Evans was Prospero.
Sunday night we brot our suppers upstairs and watched "The Tempest" - so good. Ann Rose [Meadows] said the first time she saw it was in beautiful colors at Solbergs. Maurice Evans was Prospero.
April 4, 2010
Recordkeeping
(1963 October?)
I get so nervous thinking of all the records not kept or hiked out, I'm at the point when I simply cannot throw away an old address book. (You'll see when you clean our attic someday.)
I get so nervous thinking of all the records not kept or hiked out, I'm at the point when I simply cannot throw away an old address book. (You'll see when you clean our attic someday.)
April 3, 2010
The hairdresser
(1963 October 7)
Auntie Mabel [living with caregiver] had been dressed by Mrs. S. in view of our visit and looked fine in lavender sweater. Lorin: How nice you look, auntie. M: Thank you, dear. L: Your hair is so pretty. M: I just had a permanent. The hairdresser fixed it. L: It looks very nice. Well, shall we go upstairs and have our visit? M: No, no. You can't go up there. L: Why not? M: She's asleep. L: Who's asleep? M: The hairdresser.
Auntie Mabel [living with caregiver] had been dressed by Mrs. S. in view of our visit and looked fine in lavender sweater. Lorin: How nice you look, auntie. M: Thank you, dear. L: Your hair is so pretty. M: I just had a permanent. The hairdresser fixed it. L: It looks very nice. Well, shall we go upstairs and have our visit? M: No, no. You can't go up there. L: Why not? M: She's asleep. L: Who's asleep? M: The hairdresser.
April 1, 2010
Roadwork
(1963 October 7)
Your letter caught up with us just as we were about to leave for Milwaukee to visit Daddy's aunts [Mabel & Lee]. We were happy to have a good day and a good car and thot no fly in no ointment, but a gnat anyway in that you never saw so many men tearing up so many roads with so much machinery. I knew how it had got under Daddy's skin when he told Lee there were "hundreds of thousands" of 'em. When we got to Milwaukee, same thing [on city streets]. We are trying to outdo the Romans.
Your letter caught up with us just as we were about to leave for Milwaukee to visit Daddy's aunts [Mabel & Lee]. We were happy to have a good day and a good car and thot no fly in no ointment, but a gnat anyway in that you never saw so many men tearing up so many roads with so much machinery. I knew how it had got under Daddy's skin when he told Lee there were "hundreds of thousands" of 'em. When we got to Milwaukee, same thing [on city streets]. We are trying to outdo the Romans.
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