No fun

(1973 November 18)

Learn as much about as many things as you can and a lot about a very few. I know if I were a good bridge player and enjoyed bridge parties, I would be asked out to play. The times I have gone, I have been very bored, very tired, and a migraine the next day. That crowd is not for me. If it were, my circle would be wider. Just so I might have bowling friends, golfing friends, etc.

Bridge

(1961 September 20)

Now, if you want some unasked for advice, here it is. Learn to play Bridge. The more versatile you are, the more friends you will have. Many a couple cannot face asking people over with no entertainment in sight and many a tale would not be told if it were not told over a bridge table. I refused to learn to play and have become a hermit in a bridge-crazy town. I even got MM started before she went to school tho now she is in a Gin tournament. You both are marvelous potential players.

Fish story

(1950 June 1)

This morning I heard MM's voice in the neighborhood, much later looked for her in vain. About noon saw her coming up from the Foot Bridge with four boys, happy as a lark. She told me later they had caught a Harp and were going to put it in the watering trough. It has been so unpleasant all day disciplining her for going and for saying she didn't.

Canasta instead

(1950 February 27)

Tomorrow, Sunday, is band concert for new uniforms, and as Ellen plays, we bought two tickets but probably won't go. Eve is having us and Propsts over for supper and to play canasta (ha, ha) - although we really should be at a church potluck supper they really shouldn't be having at all because of fuel shortage.

Bridge party

(1951 October 22)

Goldie is chairman of bridge party Auxiliary is giving in November, and all I am asked to do is: fill one table, bake cake, make tallies & score cards, bring pencils. I am mad at her.

Flash flood

(1951 July 25)

[There was a flash flood in Richland Center.] It is almost unbelievable how quickly the waters rose and how quickly they receded. Saturday afternoon LL just had to go to the office to meet a man, and when the man had gone and LL tried to get home, he found the water was up over both bridges, and there he was stuck over in town! About 3 WRCO went off the air after telling us to boil our water, etc. And BQ picked that day to decide to deliver my groceries after lunch. Ah me, I had a few grave moments when I drew water and boiled it and thought how I could live by getting eggs from NN [down the road] and picking a few berries to go with the eggs. Not a piece of bread in the house, but muffin makings. Now and then LL would call. Decided to spend the night in the office, but I called ZZ and she said, "Come ahead" [he could stay with them].

But later the flood hit its crest at 5, and by 6 LL got the groceries all but meat and ice cream (which BQ brought at 10:30 p.m.) and made it home [a roundabout way] over Paul's Hill and back by [US highway] 80. We were all so tickled!

But typhoid shots are being given at Soldiers Grove and Viola & Boaz. The people are so downhearted; many have lost everything they had. Red + is helping. I got together a box of bedding and clothes this noon and may find more tomorrow. Of course you know the Footbridge floated away. And no electricity. Men worked day and night making a new levee.

Bake sale

(1952 February 18)

Auxiliary bake sale today at Meadow's [furniture store]. I made a white cake with chocolate frosting and did 8 tallies with Liberty Bell to match napkins I bought. Lorin said he thought both sold right out.