Maybe this is what Grandma's workplace looked like:
Dear Ted,
I'm really doing good, aren't I? I don't know, but I think you're still one letter ahead of me. I'll do my best though.
I wonder if you saw tonight what we saw. Mother, Mary Evelyn and I were out riding when mother and I noticed streaks of light in the sky. Then it got brighter and turned color. We couldn't imagine at first what it was but they soon announced over the radio what it was. They said many people had called in regarding it. I guess people get panicky when something unusual like that occurs. You're right it was the Northern Lights. This is the first time I ever saw them and I was thrilled with the beauty. We even stopped along the highway and got out of the car to see them better. It's rather unusual to see them this far south. I remember Gladys said she saw them last year up at their place so no doubt you have seen them at some time or other.
I'll still getting birthday gifts! I wish this would keep up all year. Yesterday I received a pretty beige sweater from my brother in Detroit and cologne from my friends there. The cologne is a different odor than what the Mayfield gave me so I'm very pleased. Anyway, the other cologne is going down pretty fast. Mother got a lovely purse and compact from the same parties. More fun!
Now look, Ted, I wasn't really looking for sympathy when I told you about my little talk and you're right – I didn't expect it anyway. I know I haven't anything to “kick” about. I'm truly glad I don't need to prepare two sermons or such each week. Of course I might do better I had had more “learnin.'” Besides, I think I told you once not to take everything I say like that too seriously.
About my working hours – I have what I believe are the best available where I work. They are from 8:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. with lunch from 12:00 to 1:00. Of course if I could work exactly what I wanted to most of the time it would be from 12:00 to 1:00 with an hour for lunch. Aren't those ideal hours? In the evenings when I don't go to dinner or meetings or riding, I stay at home and read, or fix clothes, or iron (rare), or argue with my sisters, or play (???) the piano (joke), or listen to the radio, or write letters – mostly write letters (lately). I wonder why? Now, can't you just picture what my days are like? I hate to think of some of the pictures you might conceive from what I've just told you. Don't think too harshly of me and my “activities.”
I noticed that this time you corrected the address on the envelope. Did you know that a couple letters reached me with the address backward? It's good that the postal employees are used to delivering mail from you to me by now. Otherwise they might have landed in the “dead letter” office – the letters of course, not the postal employees.
Mary Evelyn's hay fever is much better and we had just decided to let her go back to her own bed (and that way I would have my own room again) when guess what happened? Adyllis came down with what we thought was a terrific cold but which the doctor she works for diagnosed as the flu. So we stuck her in my room all by herself. My room seems to have become an isolation ward more or less. We thought it best though because neither M.E. nor I wanted to sleep with her and contact anything – especially since M.E.'s resistance is low due to her hay fever and my vacation is just around the corner. That would be very unpleasant if I “came down” with something now, wouldn't it?
Well, Ted, I'm getting sorta' sleepy and I still have another day to work before I have a day off again. I have Saturday and Sunday together off. Isn't that wonderful? I'd better hurry upstairs and have mother braid my hair before she gets in bed. I'd hate to get her out of bed just for that but she braids it so much nicer than I do.
Just 10 more days. I suppose they will pass though. Good-night again and pleasant dreams.
As always,
Dolores
I wonder if you saw tonight what we saw. Mother, Mary Evelyn and I were out riding when mother and I noticed streaks of light in the sky. Then it got brighter and turned color. We couldn't imagine at first what it was but they soon announced over the radio what it was. They said many people had called in regarding it. I guess people get panicky when something unusual like that occurs. You're right it was the Northern Lights. This is the first time I ever saw them and I was thrilled with the beauty. We even stopped along the highway and got out of the car to see them better. It's rather unusual to see them this far south. I remember Gladys said she saw them last year up at their place so no doubt you have seen them at some time or other.
I'll still getting birthday gifts! I wish this would keep up all year. Yesterday I received a pretty beige sweater from my brother in Detroit and cologne from my friends there. The cologne is a different odor than what the Mayfield gave me so I'm very pleased. Anyway, the other cologne is going down pretty fast. Mother got a lovely purse and compact from the same parties. More fun!
Now look, Ted, I wasn't really looking for sympathy when I told you about my little talk and you're right – I didn't expect it anyway. I know I haven't anything to “kick” about. I'm truly glad I don't need to prepare two sermons or such each week. Of course I might do better I had had more “learnin.'” Besides, I think I told you once not to take everything I say like that too seriously.
About my working hours – I have what I believe are the best available where I work. They are from 8:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. with lunch from 12:00 to 1:00. Of course if I could work exactly what I wanted to most of the time it would be from 12:00 to 1:00 with an hour for lunch. Aren't those ideal hours? In the evenings when I don't go to dinner or meetings or riding, I stay at home and read, or fix clothes, or iron (rare), or argue with my sisters, or play (???) the piano (joke), or listen to the radio, or write letters – mostly write letters (lately). I wonder why? Now, can't you just picture what my days are like? I hate to think of some of the pictures you might conceive from what I've just told you. Don't think too harshly of me and my “activities.”
I noticed that this time you corrected the address on the envelope. Did you know that a couple letters reached me with the address backward? It's good that the postal employees are used to delivering mail from you to me by now. Otherwise they might have landed in the “dead letter” office – the letters of course, not the postal employees.
Mary Evelyn's hay fever is much better and we had just decided to let her go back to her own bed (and that way I would have my own room again) when guess what happened? Adyllis came down with what we thought was a terrific cold but which the doctor she works for diagnosed as the flu. So we stuck her in my room all by herself. My room seems to have become an isolation ward more or less. We thought it best though because neither M.E. nor I wanted to sleep with her and contact anything – especially since M.E.'s resistance is low due to her hay fever and my vacation is just around the corner. That would be very unpleasant if I “came down” with something now, wouldn't it?
Well, Ted, I'm getting sorta' sleepy and I still have another day to work before I have a day off again. I have Saturday and Sunday together off. Isn't that wonderful? I'd better hurry upstairs and have mother braid my hair before she gets in bed. I'd hate to get her out of bed just for that but she braids it so much nicer than I do.
Just 10 more days. I suppose they will pass though. Good-night again and pleasant dreams.
As always,
Dolores
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