Tuesday morning
May 2, 1978
Dear Mom, Dad, Mary Virginia & Serena (?),Hi! We have been appreciating the notes from Serena in the past two letters since we normally don't hear much from her. We were sorry to hear of her injuries and glad they weren't worse.
We went camping in our truck for the first time this past weekend – going to Clear Lake which is about 250 miles north of Gilroy. We came back via the Napa Valley (I read the article about Napa Valley in the Ford Times you sent which arrived yesterday along with your letter). We took a tour of the Christian Brothers winery. The Christian Brothers are a teaching order of the Catholic church and started making wine in the 1600s in Calif. for sacramental purposes. As Gerry said, they must have found wine to be more profitable than bingo as it is now a big business. At any rate we slept fairly well in the truck. We put Wendy's playpen pads under the sleeping bags. We are thinking of getting a foam rubber pad tho and cutting it to fit the back of the truck and then put carpet over that.
I took Wendy to the well baby clinic yesterday for a checkup. They did a very thorough job testing her reflexes, hearing, peripheral vision, etc. She weighed in at 19#2oz. and 29" long. The Dr. (they had two – a young oriental woman, and an older woman with a figure resembling a washing machine – we got the young one) – said that Wendy was healthy but shouldn't be gaining weight as fast and that I should eliminate cereal and fruit from her diet. Or at least give her milk first as she said that is still the #1 thing. Meat & vegetables are OK. So I am back to giving her just milk for breakfast & lunch and she had the meat & veg for supper. She also said that Wendy is ready to crawl. I'll just have to get down on the floor and move her hands and legs until she gets the idea.
Thanks for the clippings, also. That cottage cheese one was interesting. As for the LA Times invading San Diego County – we have seen a couple other articles on that – as well as plenty of advertising in the San Diego area.
I have to go to Sears today and pickup the bicycle basket I ordered as well as some jeans for Gerry and the short-sleeved shirt for Wendy.
Tell Grandma, I was wishing she was here to help me yesterday. We bought a big box (1/2 bushel or so) of bruised apples for 50¢ in the Napa Valley area. I made a big batch of applesauce out of the worst of them yesterday and I still have plenty left.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Love,
Catherine, Gerry
& Wendy
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