(1964 November 2)
I am making a blue and navy checked duster for Aunt Lois who can't be fitted in store-boughten clothes as she likes shirts fairly long. She can wear this either as a robe or dress. May include sample. Is cuddly. Put the collar on this aft and have the pockets and buttons left.
April 30, 2010
April 29, 2010
Answering machine
(1964 October 21)
A little joke: MM wanted me to go with her one night to the little [convenience] store for pop and cigarettes. I said no - "Why not?" Thinking fast, I said, "I'll stay here to answer the phone." She was gone about 5 minutes, but when she came in, I was taking a call for L from Chicago!!
A little joke: MM wanted me to go with her one night to the little [convenience] store for pop and cigarettes. I said no - "Why not?" Thinking fast, I said, "I'll stay here to answer the phone." She was gone about 5 minutes, but when she came in, I was taking a call for L from Chicago!!
April 28, 2010
Intruder
(1964 October)
I knew I missed telling you something when I mentioned Edith [Tuxford] before! Well, when she came home from the hospital, in Ellen's room the window and screen were both broken and glass skattered all over the room. A frightening sight! Nothing was disturbed, nothing missing. It did not look to be the work of a child. Dick [son-in-law] thought the police should be called. They came and could deduce nothing. Neighbors knew nothing. The next thing to do was to get Joe R. to put in a new glass and he knew right away what it was. A partridge had got off its course and hit against the window with great force. Joe even found a few feathers! He recalled the same thing happening at Bancrofts and one other place. Remarkable?
I knew I missed telling you something when I mentioned Edith [Tuxford] before! Well, when she came home from the hospital, in Ellen's room the window and screen were both broken and glass skattered all over the room. A frightening sight! Nothing was disturbed, nothing missing. It did not look to be the work of a child. Dick [son-in-law] thought the police should be called. They came and could deduce nothing. Neighbors knew nothing. The next thing to do was to get Joe R. to put in a new glass and he knew right away what it was. A partridge had got off its course and hit against the window with great force. Joe even found a few feathers! He recalled the same thing happening at Bancrofts and one other place. Remarkable?
April 27, 2010
Drip
(1964 October)
Our bedroom roof leaked and had to be patched. One night L woke me to hear the drip. Then he got up and got a pie tin and put under it. So helpful. Drop: "ping".
Our bedroom roof leaked and had to be patched. One night L woke me to hear the drip. Then he got up and got a pie tin and put under it. So helpful. Drop: "ping".
April 26, 2010
Mousers
(1964 August 25)
Monday Penelope [cat] left a little hamburger sticking to the paper when she had her breakfast. She then went up to the attic. When I next came into the kitchen, there was a Big Black Mouse finishing it up. I got Dee in to get him, but Dee came back to me chagrined, saying that someone was before him in finishing off Penell's breakfast and wouldn't give him any! Then I chained him outside and came back and the mouse was still eating. Rather under the radiator so hard to hit. I went around all morning with a broom for protection - at last saw mouse calmly sitting in living room and called Joe R. who killed it. Whew. Painter thot I was describing a rat (baby).
Monday Penelope [cat] left a little hamburger sticking to the paper when she had her breakfast. She then went up to the attic. When I next came into the kitchen, there was a Big Black Mouse finishing it up. I got Dee in to get him, but Dee came back to me chagrined, saying that someone was before him in finishing off Penell's breakfast and wouldn't give him any! Then I chained him outside and came back and the mouse was still eating. Rather under the radiator so hard to hit. I went around all morning with a broom for protection - at last saw mouse calmly sitting in living room and called Joe R. who killed it. Whew. Painter thot I was describing a rat (baby).
April 25, 2010
Off to the fair
(1964 June 23)
Marian Kanable was one of five leaders for 69 high-school-student Interfaith group to go to the Fair for a week and see New York. Mabel went too. Buses.
Marian Kanable was one of five leaders for 69 high-school-student Interfaith group to go to the Fair for a week and see New York. Mabel went too. Buses.
April 24, 2010
Barnstorming
(1964 June 23)
We decided to go out quietly for dinner and take a chance on the menu being something Daddy could eat. We had stopped in at the Red Barn to give me a treat as I had never been inside the place. We sat down at an empty table for a few minutes when a hostile waitress in costume and a righteous couple bore down upon us demanding their table and offering us a little one in the back between the BR and the kitchen. You know your father well enough to know it took him just three steps to flounce out the door. So we ended up at the Dutch Kitchen where we had chicken about as we do three days out of seven.
We decided to go out quietly for dinner and take a chance on the menu being something Daddy could eat. We had stopped in at the Red Barn to give me a treat as I had never been inside the place. We sat down at an empty table for a few minutes when a hostile waitress in costume and a righteous couple bore down upon us demanding their table and offering us a little one in the back between the BR and the kitchen. You know your father well enough to know it took him just three steps to flounce out the door. So we ended up at the Dutch Kitchen where we had chicken about as we do three days out of seven.
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