Dearest Family –
We finally put in a new typewriter ribbon and I am sure that you can tell the difference. I also used the typewriter cleaner that Serena left here a long time ago. Sorry that we have waited so long to do such a simple thing. As the saying goes it is the little things that add up.
Mary Virginia is non-committal about any date for a wedding but still says she'll let us know six months ahead of time. She does not want us to set the date – like November – Thanksgiving time so until you hear further from her or us . . . .
Glad to hear that DeeDee has set the date and know that Wendy is all excited about being in the wedding. Keep us up with the details.
We leave Thursday for the Toy show and Bob and GG Walker are going with us – hope the weather is warmer than it is here now – in the single digits and below.
We are to help drive a group of intermediates to a skating party in Hillsboro. We had planned to go out for dinner so will wait til after we have delivered them and then eat plus get some groceries and odds and ends that we've been needing. We get in free plus free skates but Dad told them we didn't skate so maybe that's just as well – I don't think we need any broken bones.
We'll be back next Monday, Feb. 15 from New York and then Dad goes on his "Walk to Emmaus" the following Thursday (Feb. 18 through Sunday (Feb. 21).
The one garage door opener is so nice that we have ordered one for the other door. You have heard the saying that the fool always does eventually what the wise person did in the first place.
Glad that Serena had an "uneventful" drive to Phoenix . . . it's a long trip, especially when Delta makes it in three hours. Hopefully we will fly to WPB on 3/9, but a ? mark since with the Sr. tickets we can only reserve 6 days ahead.
I have the United Methodist Women on Tuesday nite and haven't done too much to get ready. Mrs. Fanny Moore and Eloise are my co-hostesses. Mrs. Moore is planning to make cookies and I asked Eloise to come and help cut up fruit for the fruit cups. Mrs. Moore's daughter and her husband have bought Donald Matthew's house (Donna's father, Catherine). His wife died and he and Gladys Sheffield were married recently so are evidently living in her house in town. Anyway the Marshalls moved last week to New Vienna to be nearer her mother. He is still a minister at Sinking Springs but will stay until they get another minister (not Methodist church). They are sure needed in ours as more and more are going elsewhere.
The Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts took part in the service this Sunday and we had some families from other churches attending which helped increase our few but it was sparse. A young lady from Hillsboro came who has a delightful voice but she could only get one little girl to come up to help her sing a song about Kids – Holly Culbreath. Kristen helped her dad with the puppets that he used before the adult sermon.
[Love, etc.]
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