Dear Mother,
"This has been a long and busy day and it is bedtime but we are going to Chicago in the morning and I want to mail this before we go. The mail gets slower every day but the real stacks of cards haven't started coming yet. I have most of mine ready to mail but it seems so early. The Post Office keeps telling us to get things sent so I mailed your Xmas package today. It is awfully early but if it gets there early I hope you'll save it till Christmas.
We had hoped to spend the weekend with Bob & Pat but they are busy so we decided just to go for the day and we won't even call them. There is a dinner at Pat's school tomorrow night and since he's on night duty tonight he has to sleep Sat. afternoon so he'll be able to go with her.
This has been a beautiful but very cold day. We have had an inch of snow this week and it is real winter now.
I ran errands all morning and then went to a tea for a retiring teacher. I was asked to pour so that meant I had to stay a long time. It was a nice tea and so many of our old friends were there. Polly's mother was helping. Polly is married and living in Chicago. We haven't seen her husband but I hope they will come to see me the next time they are home.
We have been to a dinner tonight and that was interesting for the program was on Israel.
Next week is really a busy one but I have Ann's pantsuit all done and Patty's ready to start sewing. Then I'm going to start baking. I always enjoy that but I'm not going to make loads of cookies like I usually do.
I'm sorry about your big radio. It is probably a tube or something like that. Why don't you move the kitchen radio in there? You probably need it more in the bedroom than you do in the kitchen.
I hope you are fine."
Love,
Bonnie
Your mom wrote this on my dad's 65th birthday. They'd been in Florida for a couple of years and were ready to move back to Kentucky.
ReplyDeleteEmilia and I had been married 16 days and were taking our semester final exams.
I think my mother's china was Lenox. We sold it a couple of years ago at Replacements.com in Greensboro, NC. A nice overnight road trip.
Funny, I loved your mom's comment about the radio tube. I was thinking the other day about how so many stores had the vacuum tube testing stations back in the day.
You know, now that you mention the vacuum tube testing, I remember old shoeboxes on my dad's workbench that had tubes of various sizes in them. He loved old radios and I guess he just saved the tubes for whatever reason. Vacuum tube testing reminds me of those x-ray stations in shoe stores that measured kids' feet. Now that was really odd when you think about it.
ReplyDeleteI like it when a date or something in the letters brings up memories for readers. And I love to hear what the memories are and what people are doing. Thanks so much!
Good ol' YouTube: The Shoe Store Fluoroscope https://youtu.be/QVlEXd9w7vk
ReplyDeleteDawn of the Atom Age and all that.