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?

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. ?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.