(1992)
Lying on my left side [at the Schmidt Home] I heard someone pulling out the waste basket under the night table. I opened my eyes and looked in the face of a slim girl, brown hair, pulled back in a pony tail. Hello, I said, who are you? Roxanne, she said. "Oh, you're in a play," I said. "I know," she said, "I've seen it all ready." I hadn't, so went back dozing and let her take the basket, thinking she may be a college student.
September 15, 2012
September 14, 2012
Buffalo Bill stuff
(1929 August, Buffalo WY
Oh, nearly everyone at Cody is so fed up on this Buffalo Bill Stuff -- they can't abide it any more. It's played up constantly and becomes painful.
Oh, nearly everyone at Cody is so fed up on this Buffalo Bill Stuff -- they can't abide it any more. It's played up constantly and becomes painful.
September 13, 2012
Euchre
(1929 August, Buffalo, WY
The edge on the friendships were pretty thin this afternoon. Vi and Jeannette [Jurgeson] were going to play euchre and wanted me to play (Tommy was driving down a perilous mountain about then, but we had to have some diversion, hence the cards). She was quite horrid about teaching me, but I tried hard to be noble -- aren't you proud of me for holding my temper? Please do be -- it was noble.
The edge on the friendships were pretty thin this afternoon. Vi and Jeannette [Jurgeson] were going to play euchre and wanted me to play (Tommy was driving down a perilous mountain about then, but we had to have some diversion, hence the cards). She was quite horrid about teaching me, but I tried hard to be noble -- aren't you proud of me for holding my temper? Please do be -- it was noble.
September 12, 2012
Wide open spaces
(1929 August, Buffalo WY)
There are fields of horses and little colts, and plains of cows and dear little calves. So darling -- no fences -- all so free. There's something about it, somehow. -- I suppose a winter would cure me of quite a bit. -- ? --
There are fields of horses and little colts, and plains of cows and dear little calves. So darling -- no fences -- all so free. There's something about it, somehow. -- I suppose a winter would cure me of quite a bit. -- ? --
September 11, 2012
Cow boys
(1929 August, Buffalo, Wyoming)
These towns are full of cow boys with high Stetson hats, fancy boots and high heels, colored leather and stitching. Sometimes their shirts are of 6 or 7 different colors - bandana or scarf -- oh, boy!
These towns are full of cow boys with high Stetson hats, fancy boots and high heels, colored leather and stitching. Sometimes their shirts are of 6 or 7 different colors - bandana or scarf -- oh, boy!
September 10, 2012
Altitude
(1929 August, in Buffalo, Wyoming)
[Polly and three friends drove out to Yellowstone Park; on her way back she wrote to Lorin.] Have you ever been affected with the altitude? We drove over the Big Horn Moutains today, and they were worse than the Rockies. Tommy [Tucker] and I are the only ones bothered, it seems. The pressure was annoying, but when all the tubes began to pain, we nearly saw doctors. Usually coming down, our hearing comes back with a rush, but today things seemed farther away and stayed gone longer. Most odd. But we feel better now, all but a little dizziness,ich is going fast.
[Polly and three friends drove out to Yellowstone Park; on her way back she wrote to Lorin.] Have you ever been affected with the altitude? We drove over the Big Horn Moutains today, and they were worse than the Rockies. Tommy [Tucker] and I are the only ones bothered, it seems. The pressure was annoying, but when all the tubes began to pain, we nearly saw doctors. Usually coming down, our hearing comes back with a rush, but today things seemed farther away and stayed gone longer. Most odd. But we feel better now, all but a little dizziness,ich is going fast.
September 9, 2012
Paper route
(1970 June)
His [Lorin's] feet were so painful whenever he walked or stood that he would take his shoes off the moment he came into the house. As a boy he delivered papers over a very long route in Milwaukee and thus developed flat feet and bunions. A couple of years before his father died [in 1957] they were together in a car in Milwaukee riding along Lake Drive, and Lorin recalled to his father his job as a paper boy - and when he pointed out the distance he walked every morning, starting out in the dark, his father simply could not believe it.
His [Lorin's] feet were so painful whenever he walked or stood that he would take his shoes off the moment he came into the house. As a boy he delivered papers over a very long route in Milwaukee and thus developed flat feet and bunions. A couple of years before his father died [in 1957] they were together in a car in Milwaukee riding along Lake Drive, and Lorin recalled to his father his job as a paper boy - and when he pointed out the distance he walked every morning, starting out in the dark, his father simply could not believe it.
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