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November 15, 1957
Dear Mother,
Thank you for your letter & news of Grandmother's condition. I'm glad to hear she's pulling out of it.
Regarding the sterling vegetable dish; please do not exchange it. I would rather have the actual gift they sent, & it would be kind of nice to have a pair, I think.
Jack Shetler told me about your retirement plans. How did you happen to pick Carmel? Too much fog down there for me. I like Sun.
Jim & I have a big day planned for tomorrow.
Mon Correction: we had a long weekend, starting with the groceries & 5 frozen turkeys for his sister. The place where we buy most of our meat has nice fat hens for 33C a lb. Most of the rest Sat. was spent in the garage working on our motorcycles. This was one weekend when we were able to spend a great deal of time on them. I've rebuilt another battery for my 2-stroke and made a wooden cover for it. All I have to do now is finish the mounting set-up. It certainly is fun to see something you dreamed up, take shape & finally perform efficiently on command. This doesn't happen too often for me, but I'm learning. This year Jim is in a position to incorporate a raft of new ideas into his track machine. You have no idea how much time & effort it takes to get something off the drawing board & onto
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We spent part of Sat. morning listening to Chick's new amplifier & tuner, also some of her new records. I wish I had more time for music right now, but if I had time for all the things I'd like to do, I wouldn't have time to enjoy them. Sun. we went to mass early for a change, & spent the rest of the morning cleaning house & rearranging furniture. We found a brand new arrangement that his mother had never tried before. She really liked it when she got home. I spent most of this morning reprimanding Jeff, who is on a restricted diet since he has grown from a glutton into a fat glutton. He's almost as much [fran?] as he is trouble, or maybe it should be the other way around.
Tues. A touch of flu has kept me home from work this afternoon. Jim took off early & brought me some ginger ale. We've been admiring a wonderful ad on the inside back cover of the latest Post. It's a wonderfully comfortablelooking room, with a very clever fieldstone fireplace-barbecue. We're both nutty about fireplaces and have saved some very good articles on their design of construction from Popular Science.
Best to mail this now, so you'll get it for the weekend. We have no idea when we'll see you, but we'll be here most of the time this weekend.
Love, Marcia
