(1991 May 5)
Geraldine here with a story. Her daughter cleans for Paul Fowell [Polly's lawyer, recently deceased], and during the funeral, the two of them cleaned the Fowell home from top to bottom with no cost to the Fowells. Her face was radiant when she told me.
October 15, 2011
October 14, 2011
Pass it on
(1991 April 9)
Last Tuesday there were some fellows walking for the Environment, and Jan was asked by David K[opitske] to pick them up and take them to supper, and I was asked to tell him, coming out of French as I was coming in, to go at once to the Gym to meet them. If you can't make much of this, let it go. I can't either.
Last Tuesday there were some fellows walking for the Environment, and Jan was asked by David K[opitske] to pick them up and take them to supper, and I was asked to tell him, coming out of French as I was coming in, to go at once to the Gym to meet them. If you can't make much of this, let it go. I can't either.
October 13, 2011
The other half
(1991 Aapril 9)
Once when she [Geraldine] was early divorced, she would get her kids off to school, then walk out to the Lamplighter Motel and clean. Until Social Service told her her kids were not in school, and if they were not, her social security was going to be stopped. So she stayed home, and her kids were just furious with her. I thought of a set of geography books used years ago, How the Other Half Lives. How little we know.
Once when she [Geraldine] was early divorced, she would get her kids off to school, then walk out to the Lamplighter Motel and clean. Until Social Service told her her kids were not in school, and if they were not, her social security was going to be stopped. So she stayed home, and her kids were just furious with her. I thought of a set of geography books used years ago, How the Other Half Lives. How little we know.
October 12, 2011
SRS?
(1991 April 9)
Then [Geraldine told about] a granddaughter grown tall in the interval where grandparents were not allowed to see grand kids but now they were.
Then [Geraldine told about] a granddaughter grown tall in the interval where grandparents were not allowed to see grand kids but now they were.
October 11, 2011
Temperance talk
(1991 April 9)
Geraldine went on to talk of another son who got the shakes if without liquor. Another son could never be without pot - either grew it or bought it. One daughter was always drunk - forty of all the places she worked this one (me) and one more were the only ones where liquor ws not used. She mentioned other children - I forget.
Geraldine went on to talk of another son who got the shakes if without liquor. Another son could never be without pot - either grew it or bought it. One daughter was always drunk - forty of all the places she worked this one (me) and one more were the only ones where liquor ws not used. She mentioned other children - I forget.
October 10, 2011
Jailbird
(1991 April 9)
Some time ago you said you thought Geraldine seemed to be a jolly sort and asked if I ever enjoyed any conversations with her. I said no - that we were always working Wednesdays. However, yesterday it happened. Altho it was past 11 when she should go home, she stayed to put a bed spread from the washer to dryer, thinking it too heavy for me. So I sat in the living room knitting, back to Lorin's study; she sat across from me, ear on washer. Earlier when we changed my bed, she said one of her sons would be out of jail May 1 and would then be able to work to pay her back $50 she gave him for cigarettes, which, if you smoke them,must be bought at the jail. He was in for driving while drunk. [to be continued]
Some time ago you said you thought Geraldine seemed to be a jolly sort and asked if I ever enjoyed any conversations with her. I said no - that we were always working Wednesdays. However, yesterday it happened. Altho it was past 11 when she should go home, she stayed to put a bed spread from the washer to dryer, thinking it too heavy for me. So I sat in the living room knitting, back to Lorin's study; she sat across from me, ear on washer. Earlier when we changed my bed, she said one of her sons would be out of jail May 1 and would then be able to work to pay her back $50 she gave him for cigarettes, which, if you smoke them,must be bought at the jail. He was in for driving while drunk. [to be continued]
October 8, 2011
Early rising
(1991 April 9)
We turn our clocks ahead this weekend just in case we begin to enjoy the weather - have to get up when it's dark. I am always up at 8, unless there is a reason for rising earlier. Such as workman coming, etc., etc.
We turn our clocks ahead this weekend just in case we begin to enjoy the weather - have to get up when it's dark. I am always up at 8, unless there is a reason for rising earlier. Such as workman coming, etc., etc.
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