Yesterday Dale got the rug & pad down in his room. He tried to rent a rug stretcher but it was out so he still has that to do. It is a light gray & looks so nice. Make the room look bigger. W hen I put clean sheets on his bed tomorrow, I'll put the new bedspread on . He'd like new curtains.
He is working on the garage window by Carey's. Removing paint & will repaint it.
Mon. he leaves for Rochester for 3 days of school, returning Thurs around dinner time.
Last Wed. I went out to lunch with Betty Casey. We rode the bus & went to the Mall & ate at Ponderosa. It has been remodeled & is much nicer now. We had the buffet. We shopped a bit & took the bus home.
Yesterday, Sat, it reached the 90's & was HOT. We turned on the A.C. Not as bad today but humid & it's getting dark & showers are predicted.
I don't think I told you but our big storm a week ago was hard on Lar & Kim. Lightning hit & ruined a T.V., 2 telephones, & their computer. The new Phy Ed teacher suggested to Kim they go to Circuit City in Erie & check their computers. T hey have insurance -- $250.00 deductible.
Kim' sister & family might come this summer. They were planning to go to Fla. in July,but won't if her sister comes here. Kim said they'll have to take a couple of weekends & get away.
I received a letter from Warren Luthgren, my cousin in charge of Aunt Esther's estate & 6 of us, 1 nephew & 5 nieces, each received a check for $1,256.30. I put $1000.00 in the bank & it will go for the driveway project & I kept 256.00 for me. I'd like a suit next fall. I don't' know when the project will get started & your summer schedule sounds so busy so I don't know when you'll see it completed. I was surprised when there was that much money left since she was in the nursing home so long.
Yesterday A.M. I was at the library a little after 9 A.M. to return books & get more. Got one by Anne Perry: Bedford Square - I like her novels. Another one by Patricia Cornwell & a new author Luanne Rice: Follow the Stars Home. I didn't finish it. Felt it took too long to get into the story & I lost interest. I'm really on a reading binge!
Good for Eddie on his book report & that he did so well in 3rd grade. Hard to believe Andy will go into 7th & Eddie 4th grade. Time goes too fast.
Tues - June 13 - Gen's birthday. I'll call her later.
This is my day to clean upstairs -- the bathroom & my room. With the bedrooms looking so nice I decided to get rid of hte file cabinet in my room. That meant going thru papers & throwing out some of it. I found some letters hand written when you were in Mpls. & from U.B. so you'll have those to read plus other things. Cards, pictures, & think you'll enjoy going thru someday. I still have to dust my room -- it took quite awhile to go thru everything. Kim was over for awhile & we had coffee & talked. Tomorrow Lar & Kim are going to Erie to see about a computer. Vacation day for Lar. Torey will come over here to keep me company & vice versa.
Some time ago, I got a bedspread for Dale's bed for 20.00 but it didn't look that good.
Last nite Barb & I went to the Mall. Penney's had nothing we liked so we looked at Bon Ton & we found one & we think it looks good. Dale is away but he should like it. A nice contrast with the light walls & light gray rug.
Barb saw a set she liked so she got hers & they look nice -- a floral print. Sheets too. But she needed new valences & found some plain olive green & they look nice. So the upstairs is in pretty good shape.
Tonite we went to Perkins for supper but it wasn't that good.
K Mart had paper shredders on sale & I got one & have plenty to shred. Anything with credit numbers or S.S. number, etc. I don't like to just throw away so I try to cut them up. Now it will be easier. Stuff from Dad to throw out. Next I have to clean Dad's top drawer & get rid of more stuff.
Want to mail this tomorrow, Wed. so this is the end ofor rhis time.
Barb saw a set she liked so she got hers & they look nice
Until July 2010, when her eyesight deteriorated, my mother wrote 1000s of chatty letters during her lifetime - to her parents, in-laws, sisters, children, friends. Tho she started to write to me on a regular basis in Sept '68 when I began my freshman year at SUNY-Buffalo, it wasn't until 10 years later that I decided to hold onto them. (Very inconsistently at first, to which the big gaps between dates attest.) These are the letters transcribed, annotated, and otherwise highlighted here.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Sunday, June 11, 2000
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