"There's a good breeze today but the dust is rolling. We need rain terribly and there doesn't seem to be any chance of our getting any soon. People have been using so much water that the reserve tank was drained so they have asked people to stop until they can pump it full again.
There isn't much news. Bob and Ann are still coughing so we have watched a lot of T.V. together this week. I have been sewing too and just about have our mother-daughter dresses done.
Our tent came and they sent a nicer one than we ordered so we were glad we had to send the first one back. The kids slept in it one night. We just about have things together for our trip. I have intended to tell you that Pretzel is going to stay with the same people who kept him last year. We'll bring him with us though when we come next week but they asked to keep him and that will be better. You'd worry yourself to death about him.
The kids and I went to Bill Watterson's birthday party Thurs. and Ann had her last piano lesson that day, too. Granny gets around real well but it will be a while before she can really walk very far.
We plan to see you sometime Friday so Bye for now."
Lots of love,
Bonnie
NOTE: Mom cooked simple meals using a Coleman stove, iron skillet, small pan and coffee pot. Our first day's lunch on the road, for every camping trip, every year, would be pimiento cheese and egg salad sandwiches, carrots and celery, potato sticks, apples, cookies and lemonade. Camp breakfasts were always bacon and eggs or cereal with powdered milk (yuk) and lunches were often Dinty Moore Beef Stew, Spam fried with canned pineapple and brown sugar, canned potatoes fried with onions, cheese sandwiches and whatever else we might have found at the small camp market. A favorite treat was gingerbread and applesauce baked in a coffee can over the fire.
Bob's assignment was to help set up the tent, mine was to blow up the air mattresses.
Ann are potato sticks like french fries?
ReplyDelete"Pik-nik Shoestring Potatoes" come in a small cardboard can-like container and are tiny, crispy sticks--like very, very small french fries. It's an old product still available and they are fun to use to make "Crunchy Haystack Candy" by pouring melted chocolate over them and forming into little haystacks, refrigerating until firm.
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