November 2, 1981
Dear Family:
Halloween has come and gone -- with something like 190 visitors at our front door. Had a few soaped windows so it was really a peaceful evening. Unfortunately, Wells had a bigger "boom" as one of the boilers exploded, knocking the wall in the basement down, but most fortunately no one was in that area. Ironically the boiler had been checked about a month before.
Saturday we drove down to the Cincinnati area to hear our local band participate in a band contest and they came in fourth out of nine schools. It was a beautiful day for being out of doors and on the practical side did get the eaves cleaned out for winter. We had supper at Ponderosa and took advantage of their sirloin special.
Yesterday the Goodings were here for the day. Bob is "thinking" of changing jobs for as he says he is working 80 hours now and getting paid for 40. In fact he had to work yesterday morning in an effort to get some machine ready for production this morning. We wonder if he is sorry that he left Univ. of Dayton position.
Grandma has reservations to fly to WPB on Dec. 6th from Columbus, which date coincides with a meeting that we have in Columbus that week. Fannie Moore is also going with her, tho far as travelling that is a mixed blessing.
Dad is on the nominating committee for the new church officers. It was sort of a soap opera drama on one incident for the person had told him the night before that he would take the job and then called up the next morning (in fact, woke us up) and said that after thinking all night on it, he had better not.
Had a surprise visitor last week -- Nickie Wallen stopped by -- he hoped to get up to see John and Carol too. Heard afterwards that his wife is expecting. Marriage seems to agree with Nick tho the doctor says he needs to lose some weight. They were here for about two weeks, visiting his family. His father-in-law has quite a large farm operation including a potato plant.
Jeanne Sanker came up one day last week and we went out to lunch and tried to look up an old friend from our high school days. Lowell is to graduate from Arizona State next December (next month). He has been interviewed for various jobs but hasn't made any decisions as yet.
Mie Young was chosen as Student of the Month at East Clinton and her senior picture was in The Wilmington News Journal. She did a lot of volunteer work for the Student Council. Both she and MV plan to take a college English course that is given at East Clinton twice a week for five weeks through Wilmington College, starting next week. MV is busy getting ready for the play which East Clinton is putting on the second weekend of November. That same Saturday the band is playing for Wilmington College's last football game.
Hope that Roberta and Marion get moved okay this week and are soon able to sell their house on 61st Place. Think that I sent the rest of you her new address. They have been busy getting all the inspections, etc. before they could move in. She wrote a beautiful memorial for one of her senior friends who recently passed away. This woman had been confined to a wheelchair for quite a long time. She is the one who lived with her ex-husband and his second wife. As she told me it is a "crazy arrangement but worked out fine for them".
With much love,
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