(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.
April 25, 2010
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.
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