March 31, 2011
Naming horses
(1987 midApril) [Sherry named her newborn foal - a filly -"Darcy."] Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is a man. Have you ever known a woman with that name? I haven't been invited but think I might nudge in anyway and offer suggestions for a name for the male or female foal. New Foal Suggestions (male/female names): Italian - Dante / Beatrice. Shakespeare - Oberon / Titania. French - Napoleon / Josephine. Mystery - Max / Christie. Opera - Pinkerton / Cho-cho San. Food - Pepper / Hot Buttered Toast. Drink - Pepsi / Coco. Jewelry - Ring / Pearl. Flower - Jack-in-the-Pulpit / Rose. Pet - Sweetie Pie / Honey.
March 30, 2011
Tulip time
(1987 mid May) The tulip bed I planted has been depleted by moles tho some are up. None in bloom but the ones from other years are blooming. Why does Burpees and others want to sell me spring bulbs now?
March 29, 2011
Automatic dialling
(1987 mid April) P. S. Think your telephone is hilarious - any thing can happen. Wait til Sally is lonely someday! I knew your voice right away when you called by mistake. bet you are enjloying it!
March 28, 2011
Skip's first birthday
(1932 March 28, Monday) Our baby is one year old. He can walk about a yard, gurgles but doesn't talk any. I had the Kay relatives to a little party for him and baked him a cake, but he is pretty young yet.
March 27, 2011
New waist
(1987) It's tea time and I write as I sip my tea. .... Have you heard the joke about the cold Irish man whose feet were cold at night so he cut off his blanket on top and sewed it on the bottom? I was thinking of him when I altered some sapphire slacks which I cut off on the bottom and sewed the pieces on the top for a new waistband because the original was nearly 2" wide, sewn 6 X with elastic - so hard and tough, I knew I could not stand it!
March 26, 2011
Pillowtalk
(1987 December? 19)
After Xmas I am thinking of embroidering in needlepoint a Unicorn pillow.
After Xmas I am thinking of embroidering in needlepoint a Unicorn pillow.
March 25, 2011
Spring water
(1987 May? 25)
A wonderful buy - a gallon of Spring Water for 88 cents. I think I'll always have it in the fridge for drinking. You'll see!
A wonderful buy - a gallon of Spring Water for 88 cents. I think I'll always have it in the fridge for drinking. You'll see!
March 24, 2011
The Red Barn
(1987 May? 25)
Friday Jan and I out for fish at The Red Barn, and we didn't overly care for it. The table for two was very small and in an odd place, but adequate. There was a long salad bar and a long fish bar with sauces and crackers; so the waitress had nothing to do but keep the water glasses filled, and that she forgot. The place was large and full of a noisy crowd, probably on their way to American Theater - "Midsummer Night's Dream" - the price double what most fish dinners are, $8. Well, we are going to a different place each Friday and shall report.
Friday Jan and I out for fish at The Red Barn, and we didn't overly care for it. The table for two was very small and in an odd place, but adequate. There was a long salad bar and a long fish bar with sauces and crackers; so the waitress had nothing to do but keep the water glasses filled, and that she forgot. The place was large and full of a noisy crowd, probably on their way to American Theater - "Midsummer Night's Dream" - the price double what most fish dinners are, $8. Well, we are going to a different place each Friday and shall report.
March 23, 2011
Trollope
(1987 May 1)
Trollope is a very discerning writer when it comes to depicting human nature. Orley Farm, a big book, I was thinking of speed-reading but find it too interesting for that. By putting it on the stand you gave me for Xmas, I read at the kitchen table quite well. Then wiggling down under my blanket later, I find a mystery the right size.
Trollope is a very discerning writer when it comes to depicting human nature. Orley Farm, a big book, I was thinking of speed-reading but find it too interesting for that. By putting it on the stand you gave me for Xmas, I read at the kitchen table quite well. Then wiggling down under my blanket later, I find a mystery the right size.
March 22, 2011
Horse sense
(1987 May 1)
So much horse sense in your letter, [Sherry]. When you start leaving off riding around and around a barn or a field and go off over hills and thru woods and streams, I'll sit up and take notice
So much horse sense in your letter, [Sherry]. When you start leaving off riding around and around a barn or a field and go off over hills and thru woods and streams, I'll sit up and take notice
March 21, 2011
May Day
(1987 May 1)
Let's dance around the maypole! Only let it be quickly, as I fear I am coming down with a cold, but not too far down, I hope. Feeling raspish throat but not bad enough to keep me from the Shampoo Chair.
Let's dance around the maypole! Only let it be quickly, as I fear I am coming down with a cold, but not too far down, I hope. Feeling raspish throat but not bad enough to keep me from the Shampoo Chair.
March 20, 2011
This little church
(1986 October 1)
Don't complain to me about too many clubs to go to! You start the young early, too. -- Well, I used to belong to two or three but no more - free as a bird. Except for church, and that may go too. This little church [St. Barnabas] was meant to be chaste and free from everything that might clutter it up. Now we have shades on the windows, flags, these big banners, and now Mrs. Saloutas in honor of Louie is giving us ceiling fans. So there goes the architechture and all LL's research. I just may not be able to face them and quit. Louie has already defaced the yard by the erection of this bell tower suitable for a monastery.
Don't complain to me about too many clubs to go to! You start the young early, too. -- Well, I used to belong to two or three but no more - free as a bird. Except for church, and that may go too. This little church [St. Barnabas] was meant to be chaste and free from everything that might clutter it up. Now we have shades on the windows, flags, these big banners, and now Mrs. Saloutas in honor of Louie is giving us ceiling fans. So there goes the architechture and all LL's research. I just may not be able to face them and quit. Louie has already defaced the yard by the erection of this bell tower suitable for a monastery.
March 19, 2011
Deac on Dan
(1987 early August)
Sunday. Church with Deacon Dan - as Morning Prayer has been discarded, we now have a bastard service of some kind. Then down for drinks, iced tea - and home with D.D. to visit Fr. Meyer and bring him Holy Communion. ... Fr. Meyer very strict and no speech while having The Bread, but D.D. says he "has no problem" with this and OK to talk.
Sunday. Church with Deacon Dan - as Morning Prayer has been discarded, we now have a bastard service of some kind. Then down for drinks, iced tea - and home with D.D. to visit Fr. Meyer and bring him Holy Communion. ... Fr. Meyer very strict and no speech while having The Bread, but D.D. says he "has no problem" with this and OK to talk.
March 18, 2011
Hitchhiker
(1987 early August)
In Schulz [dime store], Kathryn started feeling weak and still wanted to go to Super Value [grocery], so asked a clerk if she would drive her there if she were getting out of work soon!!! Clerk said No. Then Edy Symons, owner Indian Hollow Green House, took her to Super Value, gave her a ride home - carried her groceries up the [long flight of] steps! And Kathryn, instead of feeling ashamed of asking, just feels she was very lucky to get rides. How she can.
In Schulz [dime store], Kathryn started feeling weak and still wanted to go to Super Value [grocery], so asked a clerk if she would drive her there if she were getting out of work soon!!! Clerk said No. Then Edy Symons, owner Indian Hollow Green House, took her to Super Value, gave her a ride home - carried her groceries up the [long flight of] steps! And Kathryn, instead of feeling ashamed of asking, just feels she was very lucky to get rides. How she can.
March 17, 2011
Piano
(1987 early August)
I called Kathryn Bailey to see how she is standing this terrible heat and found far better than I. One day 92 degrees she walked to town and went in the cool stores. She took a fancy to go in a music store she had rarely been in - she makes a point of going in every new store "to get acquainted" - so she finally came home having purchased a small organ (batteries). She let herself be talked into it and has been kicking herself ever since. Luckily she took piano lessons when young, so she can at least twiddle and produce "effects." (Daddy could play so well and never a lesson. Alfred yes & Lee no.) So sally may use piano all her life.
I called Kathryn Bailey to see how she is standing this terrible heat and found far better than I. One day 92 degrees she walked to town and went in the cool stores. She took a fancy to go in a music store she had rarely been in - she makes a point of going in every new store "to get acquainted" - so she finally came home having purchased a small organ (batteries). She let herself be talked into it and has been kicking herself ever since. Luckily she took piano lessons when young, so she can at least twiddle and produce "effects." (Daddy could play so well and never a lesson. Alfred yes & Lee no.) So sally may use piano all her life.
March 16, 2011
Monitor
(1987 early August)
I have decided to have a Monitor thru which I can notify hospital which will notify friend if I signal for help in case of falling. I must ask half a dozen friends. Do I have that many friends?
I have decided to have a Monitor thru which I can notify hospital which will notify friend if I signal for help in case of falling. I must ask half a dozen friends. Do I have that many friends?
March 15, 2011
Heat wave
(1987 early August)
HOT & HUMID. A hot moist air from gulf of Mexico. ... I barely exist in this heat. And unless it clears off for a good week by August 10, you must not come. The upstairs is an oven. At night I think I'll open the doors to cool off the house, but hotter outside.
HOT & HUMID. A hot moist air from gulf of Mexico. ... I barely exist in this heat. And unless it clears off for a good week by August 10, you must not come. The upstairs is an oven. At night I think I'll open the doors to cool off the house, but hotter outside.
March 14, 2011
Declining
(1987? December 4, Friday)
Every year my powers lessen and all saddens me. But I must never think about it - must I?
Every year my powers lessen and all saddens me. But I must never think about it - must I?
March 13, 2011
Tracker
(1987? December 4, Friday)
Daddy and I never liked these Tracks at school because the one in Track One looked down on the others. Could be why Sally wants to be in #1. Don't know. ?
Daddy and I never liked these Tracks at school because the one in Track One looked down on the others. Could be why Sally wants to be in #1. Don't know. ?
March 12, 2011
Deer hunting
(1987 early December)
Sue who comes to help me Saturday came at 3 today for an hour, looking more tired than I have ever seen her. She had to be at Hardee's at 2:30 as the Deer Hunters started coming in at 3. Richard, who permanently waved my hair Friday, said he was going to kill one on his property, then give the whole thing away to a poor man. These deer, though so darling, eat farmers' crops and anything else they can get their teeth on as spring comes along. At Madison in the Arboretum they are going to be shot this fall, much to the annoyance of some deer lovers, who want them captured and transported. But they are not listened to this year.
Sue who comes to help me Saturday came at 3 today for an hour, looking more tired than I have ever seen her. She had to be at Hardee's at 2:30 as the Deer Hunters started coming in at 3. Richard, who permanently waved my hair Friday, said he was going to kill one on his property, then give the whole thing away to a poor man. These deer, though so darling, eat farmers' crops and anything else they can get their teeth on as spring comes along. At Madison in the Arboretum they are going to be shot this fall, much to the annoyance of some deer lovers, who want them captured and transported. But they are not listened to this year.
March 11, 2011
Granny Smith
(1987 early December)
At Pierce's for the first time, I saw in a neat double row Granny Smith apples! I bought 2 and Father Maier bought 2. After we got my groceries in the house and I had put on the kettle for coffee, I cut pieces out of one apple for us to try and it was too hard and green. So it lies here on the counter, and every day I take another bit and still green.
At Pierce's for the first time, I saw in a neat double row Granny Smith apples! I bought 2 and Father Maier bought 2. After we got my groceries in the house and I had put on the kettle for coffee, I cut pieces out of one apple for us to try and it was too hard and green. So it lies here on the counter, and every day I take another bit and still green.
March 10, 2011
Save this
(1987 early December)
Again - let me say - do not use space on postals saying "Save this" as now all cards are saved. Really.
Again - let me say - do not use space on postals saying "Save this" as now all cards are saved. Really.
March 9, 2011
Trivia
(1987 early December)
I'd like to buy you a book I heard interviwed on radio yesterday called Extraordinary Origins of Every Day Things. Man said for years buttons were but ornaments until the Middle Ages, when someone thought of button holes. Do these facts delight you? I love them. Trivia so much more fun than Canon [law] data.
I'd like to buy you a book I heard interviwed on radio yesterday called Extraordinary Origins of Every Day Things. Man said for years buttons were but ornaments until the Middle Ages, when someone thought of button holes. Do these facts delight you? I love them. Trivia so much more fun than Canon [law] data.
March 8, 2011
Garage door
(1987 November 7)
I have a new good carpenter, B & D Construction - he put in the garage door and is going over the house and will do what is needed - new putty in old storms, new latches, better lock on basement door, so when you kids get the house, it will be in good repair. This is all expensive - the garage door alone over 300. Over 100 to install.
I have a new good carpenter, B & D Construction - he put in the garage door and is going over the house and will do what is needed - new putty in old storms, new latches, better lock on basement door, so when you kids get the house, it will be in good repair. This is all expensive - the garage door alone over 300. Over 100 to install.
March 7, 2011
Treats
(1987 November 7)
23 was the correct number of Trick-or-Treaters I had, but at one time had 50 or so, I think when families lived in the barracks at the Community Building during wartime.
23 was the correct number of Trick-or-Treaters I had, but at one time had 50 or so, I think when families lived in the barracks at the Community Building during wartime.
March 6, 2011
Boom boxes
(1987 November 14)
Father Maier [organist & retired priest] has complained that when he plays this electric pipe organ, the sound collects around the organ and does not go out & front. So -- here in the hall is a huge box said to be Speakers which will be installed in the ceiling to throw the sound to the front of the church. The poor pure little church!
Father Maier [organist & retired priest] has complained that when he plays this electric pipe organ, the sound collects around the organ and does not go out & front. So -- here in the hall is a huge box said to be Speakers which will be installed in the ceiling to throw the sound to the front of the church. The poor pure little church!
March 5, 2011
Played out
(1987 November 14)
I think the American Players [at Spring Green] is folding. A question of money, of course. They borrowed a great deal from the government, which they cannot repay, and for a while there were enough donations, in the thousands, but then two of the best players left and the whole place needs replacing - stage, toilets, sets just too bad. I'm glad you went as often as you could.
I think the American Players [at Spring Green] is folding. A question of money, of course. They borrowed a great deal from the government, which they cannot repay, and for a while there were enough donations, in the thousands, but then two of the best players left and the whole place needs replacing - stage, toilets, sets just too bad. I'm glad you went as often as you could.
March 4, 2011
Silent auction
(1987 November 14)
The Silent Auction [at the Church Fall Festival] did well. I came home with a basket of apples & cheese, plate of cookies, (empty) cream puffs, bottle of cloves, Father Maier's squash (he got my violet plant!). So it went.
The Silent Auction [at the Church Fall Festival] did well. I came home with a basket of apples & cheese, plate of cookies, (empty) cream puffs, bottle of cloves, Father Maier's squash (he got my violet plant!). So it went.
March 3, 2011
Fall festival
(1987 November 14)
Last night was the Church Fall Festival with the proceeds to go to Camp Webb [for kids]. The food was simple, barbecues, chicken in buns, salads. But O the desserts! So gooey with whipped cream and pies etc. Then song sheets, and all sang lustily. Jim Coufal and I were back to back at tables. He turned around and said, "When your brother gets that book done, I want a copy." I considered he had had a couple before coming, so just said OK. One hand all bandaged up - something about loading cattle - when a mother found her calf wasn't with her, she cut up rough.
Last night was the Church Fall Festival with the proceeds to go to Camp Webb [for kids]. The food was simple, barbecues, chicken in buns, salads. But O the desserts! So gooey with whipped cream and pies etc. Then song sheets, and all sang lustily. Jim Coufal and I were back to back at tables. He turned around and said, "When your brother gets that book done, I want a copy." I considered he had had a couple before coming, so just said OK. One hand all bandaged up - something about loading cattle - when a mother found her calf wasn't with her, she cut up rough.
March 2, 2011
Always in order
(1987 September 6 )
Congratulations on being Mr. President [of the Midwest Medieval Conference]. Keep the meetings short and you'll be popular. I once went (years ago) to a long PTA meeting that went ON & ON. At last I remembered Daddy's telling me a motion to adjourn is always in order. I waved my hand and when called on said, "I move we adjourn." Cries of Yea (relief!) and all thankfully bustled out leaving the confused president saying, "But - but - I had a couple of other things to bring up."
Congratulations on being Mr. President [of the Midwest Medieval Conference]. Keep the meetings short and you'll be popular. I once went (years ago) to a long PTA meeting that went ON & ON. At last I remembered Daddy's telling me a motion to adjourn is always in order. I waved my hand and when called on said, "I move we adjourn." Cries of Yea (relief!) and all thankfully bustled out leaving the confused president saying, "But - but - I had a couple of other things to bring up."
March 1, 2011
Schuler's sideshow
(1987 September 6, Sunday)
When I tuned in [to Rev. Schuler's Church on TV] the choir was singing the first hymn. About 150-200 voices. From then on it was like a sideshow, with each act applauded vigorously. Act 1 - a boy soprano in white. Act 2 - A Fr. Jasu (?) who was captured (tortured) and at last released. This old man (white beard) told all and well applauded. Act 3 - The photographer took this so he could see a girl playing a pipe organ (the tune was The Spinner). A canary in a cage at her left! Act 4 - A song by a tenor. Act 5 - A huckster selling paper cutter made of gold (to pay for TV time) - write in and ask for your initial to be put on. The one shown was S. Act 6 - A girl playing a set of bells. Act 7 - The sermon, about 6 minutes. Know you are loved & be friendly, free, firm and ?? (feathered?). Before the choir ends it all, he speaks of the paper cutter once more, asking a contribution be sent with request if you can. "If you cannot help me, allow me to help you." You really must catch this.
When I tuned in [to Rev. Schuler's Church on TV] the choir was singing the first hymn. About 150-200 voices. From then on it was like a sideshow, with each act applauded vigorously. Act 1 - a boy soprano in white. Act 2 - A Fr. Jasu (?) who was captured (tortured) and at last released. This old man (white beard) told all and well applauded. Act 3 - The photographer took this so he could see a girl playing a pipe organ (the tune was The Spinner). A canary in a cage at her left! Act 4 - A song by a tenor. Act 5 - A huckster selling paper cutter made of gold (to pay for TV time) - write in and ask for your initial to be put on. The one shown was S. Act 6 - A girl playing a set of bells. Act 7 - The sermon, about 6 minutes. Know you are loved & be friendly, free, firm and ?? (feathered?). Before the choir ends it all, he speaks of the paper cutter once more, asking a contribution be sent with request if you can. "If you cannot help me, allow me to help you." You really must catch this.
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