(1956 April)
We got home about 2 and I was so thankful to be in a home again and at once did all the things you can't do away - like go to the fridge for a nip of ice cream and put on bedroom slippers and old clothes, etc.
October 31, 2009
October 30, 2009
Postal privacy
(1956 May 4)
We were so glad to get your card, to know you had actually moved and know what your address is! But I do think all your private thoughts should go in the privacy of an envelope and not on a postal for the boys in the Post Office to read and chuckle over. I have said this before.
We were so glad to get your card, to know you had actually moved and know what your address is! But I do think all your private thoughts should go in the privacy of an envelope and not on a postal for the boys in the Post Office to read and chuckle over. I have said this before.
October 29, 2009
Bookkeeping
(1956 May 4)
I am not at all surprised to hear you have too many books. I have been begging you to sell some for years. The situation will grow worse as time goes on and moving to another city will cost a fortune. (Good Xmas gifts!)
I am not at all surprised to hear you have too many books. I have been begging you to sell some for years. The situation will grow worse as time goes on and moving to another city will cost a fortune. (Good Xmas gifts!)
October 28, 2009
Girl Scout cookies
(1956 April)
Scouts today. My troop got a certificate of merit for selling cookies, over 25 boxes per girl. I am so proud of them.
Scouts today. My troop got a certificate of merit for selling cookies, over 25 boxes per girl. I am so proud of them.
October 27, 2009
Puppy love
(1955 December 3)
Thursday night MM and I wrote out an ad for Pixie [our incontinent puppy] and when Herb brot us home, I gave it to him to mail to WRCO, the Trading Post. I meant to listen at 1 p.m. but M was having a girl over to make angels to decorate those Xmas tress for dance, and so we were so full of arrangements that we forgot, but at 1:10 the phone started ringing and six people called and 3 at the door. Wow! And Daddy taking his rest. At that he said it was better than the hospital [he just got back from]. More restful. M had taken him [Pixie] for her rest for the last time. When the first applicant arrived, I could hardly give him up. A not too bright farmer from up Horse Creek. I thot Pixie was too small and cute and so many nice people called. So I called M and told her to take a peek at him on the porch and she said he looked nice to her, so I put the puppy in his arms and immediately I knew it was all right. His face lit up and he fondled Pix and said, "Don't you worry. I'll take good care of him. I want him for my little boy." Pixie was licking his face and he was loving it. M said she saw the little boy in the car so happy. When he left I was ready to burst into tears for being so cruel both to Pix and to her. But she was radiant! "Wasn't that wonderful, Mother! Everything worked out just fine. Now Pixie can chase the cows and fool around the farm and will be so happy and so will the little boy." Isn't she astounding?
Thursday night MM and I wrote out an ad for Pixie [our incontinent puppy] and when Herb brot us home, I gave it to him to mail to WRCO, the Trading Post. I meant to listen at 1 p.m. but M was having a girl over to make angels to decorate those Xmas tress for dance, and so we were so full of arrangements that we forgot, but at 1:10 the phone started ringing and six people called and 3 at the door. Wow! And Daddy taking his rest. At that he said it was better than the hospital [he just got back from]. More restful. M had taken him [Pixie] for her rest for the last time. When the first applicant arrived, I could hardly give him up. A not too bright farmer from up Horse Creek. I thot Pixie was too small and cute and so many nice people called. So I called M and told her to take a peek at him on the porch and she said he looked nice to her, so I put the puppy in his arms and immediately I knew it was all right. His face lit up and he fondled Pix and said, "Don't you worry. I'll take good care of him. I want him for my little boy." Pixie was licking his face and he was loving it. M said she saw the little boy in the car so happy. When he left I was ready to burst into tears for being so cruel both to Pix and to her. But she was radiant! "Wasn't that wonderful, Mother! Everything worked out just fine. Now Pixie can chase the cows and fool around the farm and will be so happy and so will the little boy." Isn't she astounding?
October 26, 2009
Winterizing
(1955 November)
I brot in the garden hose and got ready for winter. Picked the chrysanthemums in the dark last night anticipating a freeze.
I brot in the garden hose and got ready for winter. Picked the chrysanthemums in the dark last night anticipating a freeze.
October 25, 2009
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