football day

Dear Daughter,

I am so thrilled that you and Stan have a Crown Victoria. I can hardly wait to see it. I think you said that it had eight cylinders, so it will go fast, if you need it to.

The football games - Auburn won over Arkansas, and we were sorry about that. Daddy is now watching the baseball game, NY vs Boston is tied in about the third inning. He said he heard on TV that Ole Miss was ahead of Arkansas State.

I went to the Grocery this morning, as I told you, and I haven't been out since. I don't think that I will go out this afternoon or tonight. I'm crocheting the Baby Squares Afghan. Of course, I knew how to crochet it, but putting it all together will be fun!

Harry has a meeting October 19 through 22, and then they will go home on the 23rd. It is at Cross Plains, 40 miles north of Nashville toward Clarksville. They are coming on the 18th about the middle of the afternoon, and will stay a short while before going to their motel at the place Harry will hold the meeting.

So, that's about all the news that I have - we are enjoying the day -

Hope you have a good evening, and I'm sure you are glad to be home -

Much love, M & D

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Dear Mother:

How are you all this afternoon? Did you get plenty of rest? You made a good decision not to go to the grocery. You can go tomorrow and I imagine it won’t make much difference. I took a nap this afternoon and feel drowsy and groggy but better for having rested some. I wish I had another day off but it will be back to work as usual in the morning!

As for telling the children about the car, I think I’ll wait until I actually have it and then we may walk out there and look at it. It had completely slipped both our minds that tomorrow is a holiday so no mail and no bank which means we can’t deposit our check until Tuesday. Stan is going to take care of depositing the check and then going out to finish the paperwork on Tuesday. If all goes as planned, we will get the car on Tuesday afternoon when I get off from work. If for some reason that doesn’t work out, it would be Thursday before we got the car because I will be gone morning to night on Wednesday on a field trip with the third graders. But maybe everything will fall into place and work out the way we planned. It’s pitiful when you’re so busy that you can’t find time to go pick up a new car!

Fortunately, that’s about all I know. I did manage to unpack my suitcase and to sort through all the stuff I got at the gifted conference. Stan has watched various sports shows all afternoon (at least one Tennessee team managed to win this weekend!) so he hasn’t done much either. So, I hope all went well at church this evening and that you have a nice rest of the evening.

Bye--Ruth