(1957 August 21)
At least the Japanese wind chimes are keeping you happy. No, dear, we don't have them - I just don't care too much about them - they are too much like canaries, always unexpectedly twittering about. But that is merely a difference of opinion, of course.
December 8, 2009
December 7, 2009
A good idea
(1957 Summer)
Father B. was here yesterday and we talked about starting up the Sunday School again. Everyone thinks it is a good idea for everyone else to do.
Father B. was here yesterday and we talked about starting up the Sunday School again. Everyone thinks it is a good idea for everyone else to do.
December 6, 2009
The first Frisbee
(1957? June)
And the Saucer is such fun. MM says no one around here has seen one like it. Once I was too slow and it went into the jungle [overgrown slope behind Grove St. house], but she got it. She and Kas kept it under control yesterday.
And the Saucer is such fun. MM says no one around here has seen one like it. Once I was too slow and it went into the jungle [overgrown slope behind Grove St. house], but she got it. She and Kas kept it under control yesterday.
December 5, 2009
Busy day
(1957? June?, Tuesday)
I baked a cake, got supper, helped the painter set back the furniture on the varnished upstairs floor & do odd things before he figured up his bill (counting on fingers at kitchen table) and helped Mrs. Gray houseclean M's room until 4 p.m. which had been used to park canvases, ladders etc. and still had enough vim to wash the dishes, talk MM into a hot bath, shampoo her sandy hair and wash one batch of filthy camp clothes besides fix a place for the turtle in the laundry tub in the basement.
I baked a cake, got supper, helped the painter set back the furniture on the varnished upstairs floor & do odd things before he figured up his bill (counting on fingers at kitchen table) and helped Mrs. Gray houseclean M's room until 4 p.m. which had been used to park canvases, ladders etc. and still had enough vim to wash the dishes, talk MM into a hot bath, shampoo her sandy hair and wash one batch of filthy camp clothes besides fix a place for the turtle in the laundry tub in the basement.
Attic improvements
(1957? June)
No painter yet, but a carpenter has taken the attic in hand and took down hornets' nests, killed 2 bats, boarded up hole sparrows were coming in, laid more boards on floor, tomorrow puts tar paper on ceiling to prevent dirt from dropping on everything, and then we shall sort stuff out and try for that elusive state, Order.
No painter yet, but a carpenter has taken the attic in hand and took down hornets' nests, killed 2 bats, boarded up hole sparrows were coming in, laid more boards on floor, tomorrow puts tar paper on ceiling to prevent dirt from dropping on everything, and then we shall sort stuff out and try for that elusive state, Order.
December 2, 2009
Dacron
(1957 June 4)
Thank you, dear, for endorsing dacron shirts. We shall have to experiment. They sound time saving. MM wore a wash & wear to Kassie's today and when K's Tropical Punch spilled all over MM, Dorothy washed it and hung it on the line and had she not mentioned it, I'd not have noticed.
Thank you, dear, for endorsing dacron shirts. We shall have to experiment. They sound time saving. MM wore a wash & wear to Kassie's today and when K's Tropical Punch spilled all over MM, Dorothy washed it and hung it on the line and had she not mentioned it, I'd not have noticed.
December 1, 2009
Oldtimer's estate sale
(1957 April 22)
Saturday afternoon we 4 went to the Aldrich auction, LL to protect the estate's interest. Things I came home with I had no intention buying were: a deer hide, a candle making form, fencing rapiers, aluminum pans, and a 90 piece silver set marked A, Reed & Barton plate. Things I did not get tho bid on were: Indian snow shoes, cavalry rifles, sea shell collections. Also offered in glass case was bonnet of Chief White Swan. Wonderful photo equipment, rock collection. Edison phono and big record collection brot 9. Sewing machine 2. LL bid a big grandfather clock up to 150 (to protect estate he says). Jay Buchanon got it and I was sort of relieved. Do you know of anyone who would be interested in the silver? Will sell.
Saturday afternoon we 4 went to the Aldrich auction, LL to protect the estate's interest. Things I came home with I had no intention buying were: a deer hide, a candle making form, fencing rapiers, aluminum pans, and a 90 piece silver set marked A, Reed & Barton plate. Things I did not get tho bid on were: Indian snow shoes, cavalry rifles, sea shell collections. Also offered in glass case was bonnet of Chief White Swan. Wonderful photo equipment, rock collection. Edison phono and big record collection brot 9. Sewing machine 2. LL bid a big grandfather clock up to 150 (to protect estate he says). Jay Buchanon got it and I was sort of relieved. Do you know of anyone who would be interested in the silver? Will sell.
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