Thursday evening
March 8, 1979
Dear Mother, Dad, and Mary,Hi! glad to get your letter on Monday and to talk to you on Tuesday, Mother. Maybe I will call you again in the next few days to give you a progress report on Wendy. We were pretty worried about her on Thursday as she had lost four pounds and wasn't able to keep anything down at all. Yesterday I offered her everything I could think of including tongue and hot dogs (her favorites) and she did pick at them a little. Today she ate a little better but she also started vomiting again. Probably I shouldn't have gone back to milk so soon. At any rate she was much fussier today so that is probably a good sign. Although her constant fussing is about enough to drive me up the wall. She is sleeping more though so I do get some peace. We were certainly glad that she had a few extra pounds to shed.
We now have nine apartments rented with more to be taken between now and the 15th. That will be nine of the 1 bedrooms and 3 of the 2's. No, I guess we have four 2's so that must make 14 apartments taken including ours. We've been running a big ad in the Madras paper as well as a small ad in the Bend paper. After this week though we just will have a small ad in the local paper. The first two bedroom unit that we rented after the people moved in they discovered they had no hot water in the bathroom and the heat didn't work in one of the bedrooms so we had our first problems. The plumber wasn't able to come and check on it but he suggested for me to check some things and it turned out that their bathroom pipes were connected to the water heater in the apartment below them. so he has to come and remedy that as well as a few other minor things we have found. The electrician found a broken wire in the thermostat to solve the heat problem.
It has been beautiful here this week. Tuesday it was cloudy but the temperature got up to 67. Yesterday and today were only in the 50's but clear and sunny. I only took Wendy out for a few minutes until today we went to Beth's to see how she was doing. We are in hopes that this spring weather will last through the weekend anyway. Gerry would like to play golf on Sunday. Saturday we are going down to Bend to do a little shopping and to look for a desk. Tomorrow night we are having Ron and Georgette over for dinner – featuring one of our Mexican specialties – chicken enchiladas.
Next Wednesday I go to the dentist to have the other side of my mouth taken care of. Joan is going to babysit for Wendy. A lady from the state health dept. came this week to look at Shade [Joan's blind daughter, about Wendy's age] (she comes once a month from Salem) and said she is really making progress: she can get up on her hands and knees now and sort of creeps along. Plus she is doing lots better playing with different toys that they have supplies for her. They gave her her first braille book.
Gerry is getting busier at work now that the weather is better. That makes his days go by faster and he seems to have more energy when he comes home. I think just sitting all day and trying to make up things to do is more tiring than being busy.
Say "hello" to everyone for us. Is Ruth doing any better? Mary Virginia isn't doing too well writing us letters this year. In fact, she and DeeDee must be related. We never hear from either one of them! Well, I'll be calling again soon.
Love,
Catherine, Gerry
& Wendy
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