1979 Catherine's Letter to John -Feb.27

Joe Horton's "The Leaning Mosque – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia" notecard - mailed 1979

Tuesday

February 27, 1979

Dear John,

Hi!  It has taken me awhile to get your last letter answered but I suppose you have other things to do than read letters from me anyway.  Wendy is driving me crazy today.  She is supposed to be taking her nap right now but I couldn't get her to sleep so she is fussing at me as I try to type this.  I just put her to bed, I couldn't take anymore fussing.  Now we'll have to see how she is when she wakes up.

Thanks for sending us a copy of your resume – quite interesting.  Gerry thinks your best bet would be insurance – with the big companies they have lots of different jobs and there would be plenty of room for advancement.  We have known several people here who are in training for bank management positions and the bank shuffles them around and they never seem to know what is going on.  We'll be interested in hearing how things go on any and all fronts including marriage.  What kind of article is this you are talking about?

We haven't gotten the prints yet.  Do you have them now?  To answer your other questions – Wendy likes the new apartment, it is easier for her to play in her bedroom (where I try to keep her toys but she likes to scatter them everywhere) and she has the whole place to roam around.  I really don't know if we will be coming east in the next year.  It depends on whether we can find someone else to manage the apartments for awhile.  If we did come it would probably have to be not around the first of the month so we would be here to collect the rent.  We aren't thinking about a "next" location since we plan to stay here in Madras for a few more years anyway.  We will probably stay in the northwest indefinitely.  All the snow that was here when you were is now gone.  It went in one big whoosh which was when we had the flood.  Sine then it has snowed a few times but not more than an inch at once.  As of tomorrow we will have five apartments rented – all one bedrooms so that leaves us with five other one bedrooms and 15 two bedrooms yet to rent.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Love, Catherine, Gerry & Wendy