"I was surprised to get your letter today. Since I quit work we haven't been doing much running around. It has been nice to stay home and rest. I haven't really rested, but I can sit down anytime I like and don't have to rush all the time. Today I waxed the bedroom floor and it shines like everything. We went to town this afternoon and bought ivory paint to paint the kitchen. It is pretty dirty and the ceiling is peeling. I got enough paint to go over the bathroom, too. It is in pretty good shape, but while I was doing it, I thought I'd do a good job. I'm going to do the bath in blue and ivory.
There have been several big fires here in town. One of them gutted several buildings in a row and among these was our laundry. We lost 2 sheets, 2 lunch cloths & three towels. We have the claim all made out, but I don't imagine the insurance company will give us much.
The weather has been terrible all week. It has sleeted, snowed and rained. It hasn't bothered my any though, except I washed Monday and planned to hang things up on the roof. I had to dry them in the bathroom.
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We had a long letter from Beulah this week, but I haven't answered it yet. If you have an extra soft lead pencil please give it to her. She writes with indelible pencil and by the time we get it I think it fades. Ha! I really like the blouse material she sent. I'm anxious to get it made.
The term at Teachers College begins Jan. 24 and I have an appointment with the registrar Monday to find out what I can take. If everything goes as we plan I'll start back to school.
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| New Haven State Teachers College (Image Courtesy of Southern Connecticut State University) |
We plan to go to Sullivan's Sunday. Sully and his girl are coming for the week-end and we're going to take them home Sunday and eat dinner up there. Saturday night we're going to a play.
Take care of yourselves and write soon."
Loads of love,
B & Bonnie
NOTES from Ann: For information on Ernie Pyle, author of Here is Your War and a brief review of the book, see below.
http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/library-and-archives/notable-hoosiers/ernie-pyle
Ernie Pyle, probably the greatest journalist who ever lived, presents his best work from the American campaign in North Africa. Through Ernie's words, we see how life was like in WWII for the average soldier. Ernie never cared for raving on about generals and admirals -- just the average "Joe." His books read like the greatest screenplays. And yet they are not fiction. They are real stories, memoirs, recollections, biographies of hundreds of soldiers. His book is a living, breathing echo of America's blood and tears in World war II. A must for any journalist, journalism student or anyone interested in World War II and military history. (Quoted directly from Amazon.com reviews.)
And about the familiar Life with Father: Clarence Day's comic stories of his father, Clarence "Clare" Day Senior are taken from the "New Yorker" magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. When it isn't, all hell breaks loose and an amusing sight it is too from a safe enough distance. Clare is intolerant, tyrannical and plain obnoxious in his constant battle to harness the world to his way of thinking. He rages against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, the need for holidays, the need to be ill and, of course, the inability of his children to live up to his impossible standards. Yet, the more he rails, the more comic a figure he cuts and the more he blusters, the more lovable this makes him to his own beleaguered family. (Quoted directly from Amazon.com reviews.)
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