December 14, 2011

What I felt like doing

(1992 April 5)

I have resolved to get up more. I was told to do what I felt like doing, and bed seemed easy and the safest thing. I have a pain in my upper right arm that is annoying. If I go to my doctor, he will send me on a series of tests again, maybe even to hospital, and I am tired of that.

December 13, 2011

Beep

(1992 April 5)

This is Jean's last year of teaching, and The Beep, daily campus paper, keeps saying something like, "60 more days, 59 more days, Jean," and Bill says she is annoyed.

December 12, 2011

Woody drive

(1992 April 5)

Yesterday was a beautiful day, and I let MM help me dress and went for a ride in her car. We went out to Chicken Ridge and stopped at Judith Coufal's house - she came out and directed us on a lovely drive, very woodsy.... You know these lovely drives where the trees are close together, trunks rather thin, leafy, [where] you hope you won't meet another car. Well, it was like that.

December 11, 2011

Broken circuit

(1992 April 5 = Daylight Saving Time & all that

Sunday noon and writing abed. Well, another do this morning. The furnace went out, and Fry the Plumber did not answer the phone. MM had got up to get my breakfast, and I had it on a tray in bed to keep warm. Then she routed Bruce [visiting for the weekend] out of bed, and by golly he fixed it in about 2 minutes, and all cozy now.

December 10, 2011

Redbeard

(1992 March 28)

How doth your pretty beard today
A-growing on your chin?
Is it the boast of Broadway
Or bothersome as sin?
When you are eating soup one day,
Is it awfully in the way?

December 9, 2011

Birthday verse

(1992 March 28)

Lorin Alfred Richard Kay,
What have you been doing all day?
Did you write to your mother?
Better be good or you'd catch it I'll say.

December 8, 2011

Green day

(1992 March 21)

Susan was singing "Amazing Grace" as she washed up the dishes. Very religious. ... She came [from Indiana] on St. Pat's day, told about four fellows full of beer on the train and singing Irish songs, one all in green carrying a small tub of ice with more bottles of beer!