(1955 March 13)
Sunday night, and after a dull day, which seems to be what Daddy needed to face the week tomorrow, we are on the verge of retiring. Maggie already is tucked in, not too sleepy perhaps, as she was exhausted and slept until 10 this morning. Daddy is working a puzzle of about 500 pieces, every one blue, and get one piece about every hour.
October 12, 2009
October 11, 2009
Synthetic heels
(1955 February 5)
Thursday I spent two hours on the kitchen floor and waxed it for the first time and it does look fine! First I washed it, then rinsed it, then waxed it. All on hands and knees, going over it three times. What made me so particularly particular was wanting to get it perfect before the first coating of wax was put on. Finally, at long last I got the last of the black marks from your heels off. Now please do not come home with those again. Replace them or wear them out there. They are vile.
Thursday I spent two hours on the kitchen floor and waxed it for the first time and it does look fine! First I washed it, then rinsed it, then waxed it. All on hands and knees, going over it three times. What made me so particularly particular was wanting to get it perfect before the first coating of wax was put on. Finally, at long last I got the last of the black marks from your heels off. Now please do not come home with those again. Replace them or wear them out there. They are vile.
October 10, 2009
Engagement
(1955 February 5)
I was engaged to Daddy for five long years and we were every minute of it longing to be together and making a life of our own. He was studying and preparing to make a living and I was teaching in a small town where transportation was almost nil - there were no buses and sometimes no trains through - so we seldom saw each other.
I was engaged to Daddy for five long years and we were every minute of it longing to be together and making a life of our own. He was studying and preparing to make a living and I was teaching in a small town where transportation was almost nil - there were no buses and sometimes no trains through - so we seldom saw each other.
October 9, 2009
Busy signal
(1955 January 24)
We are all very busy here; I, in particular, must stop saying and start doing.
We are all very busy here; I, in particular, must stop saying and start doing.
October 8, 2009
The kindness of strangers
(1955 January)
Well, it was a lovely party, wasn't it? as MM <10> says every hour. "Mother, wasn't it fun in Madison? That's were I'm going to live." It will probably do until she sees something bigger. She is a perfect mouse on the bus. She will have nothing to do with us, but goes and sits with a stranger and has the time of her life. She did everything possible at the hotel including reading the Bible, but hadn't time to try out her desk. So she brought the stationery along and sat with a girl who had a ball point to loan and wrote Ginger. Handily standing in the aisle was a grade supervisor who helped with spelling and commas. No one had a stamp.
Well, it was a lovely party, wasn't it? as MM <10> says every hour. "Mother, wasn't it fun in Madison? That's were I'm going to live." It will probably do until she sees something bigger. She is a perfect mouse on the bus. She will have nothing to do with us, but goes and sits with a stranger and has the time of her life. She did everything possible at the hotel including reading the Bible, but hadn't time to try out her desk. So she brought the stationery along and sat with a girl who had a ball point to loan and wrote Ginger. Handily standing in the aisle was a grade supervisor who helped with spelling and commas. No one had a stamp.
October 7, 2009
Cement shortage
(1954 Fall)
We are still on Flying Squirrel Hill and it looks as if we'll be here all winter. We can't move until the drive [at 33 Grove St.] is laid as it is all dug out now and the van couldn't go over it. They can't put the drive in because there is a pile of sand and a pile of gravel in front of the garage to make the side porch. And they can't make the side porch because there is no cement in town and hasn't been. So here we sit like....
We are still on Flying Squirrel Hill and it looks as if we'll be here all winter. We can't move until the drive [at 33 Grove St.] is laid as it is all dug out now and the van couldn't go over it. They can't put the drive in because there is a pile of sand and a pile of gravel in front of the garage to make the side porch. And they can't make the side porch because there is no cement in town and hasn't been. So here we sit like....
October 6, 2009
The bean and the bear
(1954 August)
The Jumping Bean is now eclipsed by a caterpillar named Teddy Bear, a brown and black furry one. He lives in a soap box with a screen top and eats and eats. Uninformed children believe he lays eggs too. The Jumping Bean lives in his old Ink Bottle on the kitchen stove and we often think him to be quite dead until we use the stove and he warms up and starts to kick.
The Jumping Bean is now eclipsed by a caterpillar named Teddy Bear, a brown and black furry one. He lives in a soap box with a screen top and eats and eats. Uninformed children believe he lays eggs too. The Jumping Bean lives in his old Ink Bottle on the kitchen stove and we often think him to be quite dead until we use the stove and he warms up and starts to kick.
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