October 22, 1967 Another Beautiful Day, The Terrible Apples, The Three Ring Circus and The Pickled Green Tomatoes

Dear Mother & Daddy,

"It's another beautiful day but it is cold. We bought our last basket of tomatoes this morning but they aren't too nice.

Ladies Home Journal Cookbook, 1960

If I can get outside before dark I'm going to pick all the little green cherry tomatoes & pickle them if there are enough. I did all of my cleaning yesterday for a change but haven't been able to get much of anything done today.

I did get two apple pies made but it took twice as long as it should have. The apples were given to me and looked so good on the outside but were terrible.

Marjorie wrote about our coming to her house for Christmas but I don't see how we can. Things get so complicated around here at Christmas with Ann doing everything at school & church and Bob coming home. It's like a three ring circus. I would certainly like to see Marjorie & Roger's house. You & Daddy make plans to go for I'm sure Beulah wouldn't care. Roger has that week off so just let him come for you & bring you back.

Ann got her acceptance from William Woods this week. We are all very glad that is settled but we haven't sent the final deposit back yet. That has to be done within 30 days. Several other girls are getting interested in Wm. Woods now and have been borrowing her catalogs.

Bob seems to be enjoying his work (I mean school work) and is beginning to guess what grades will be. I think he's working a little harder this year. At the same time, he's looking for a better school and talking about transferring at the end of the year. He'll have to make up his mind as to where it will be and has been writing to some other schools for information. He and Pat have been invited to Richmond for Thanksgiving. Pat's cousin lives there. She has lots of relatives in Virginia so we had supposed that some of them would invite them for that day.

The mimosa still has the leaves on it but many of the trees are bare. One of these days I'll have to wrap it but I want to wait until the weather stays cold.

What color drapes did you order for the bedroom? I'd really like to have new ones for my bedroom but would like to make them. I won't get around to that until these fall apart probably.

So very 60s!

I'd better stop & go get the green tomatoes before the sun goes down. They may not even be any good but I want to see.

Hope you both are fine."

                             Lots of love,

                                  Bonnie