Friday (February 18, 1977)
Dear Robin
I got the valentine and I don't know how they made one so "you." Grant brought me one also - a box of candy and it's almost all gone now.
We have been having lovely weather and I have been working outside until all my bones and muscles are so sore I can hardly get around. The ash trees are budding out and the peach tree is in bloom. I think it is still too early to plant a garden.
Armstrongs had a big fire at the Hildebrand place the other night. The warehouse was destroyed and the office and showrooms had smoke and water damage.
Now they are after my money. Brooks Field Bank was robbed the other day.
I don't quite go along with the way you and Sharon have figured out how to spend $50. That kind of logic can get you into financial trouble. I do believe you will be better off staying at the dorm. I know you are not very fond of dishwashing and other kinds of cleaning.
Well, I have rested enough now I'm either going to wash the car or work some more in the yard.
Love
Mother
She certainly has "quit preachin' and gone to meddlin'" in her recent letters, although I have no recollection what my roommate and I were going do with $50. Buy clothes, probably.
Armstrongs was a wholesale plumbing supply company. They had been one of my Dad's competitors.
She makes me want to get outside and work in the yard! It's too early to plant a garden here, too, especially after our big snow and ice event last week. We're still under a boil water advisory, but I forget sometimes and wash my hands with tap water. It's a sad state of affairs when you have to use hand sanitizer AFTER you wash your hands.
2 comments:
Your mom was a workhorse, wasn't she? Glad y'all are ok. My sister is almost 71 years old and lives alone in Richmond (suburb of Houston). I was so worried about her. She was without power for several days and without water from Monday - Saturday. She finally had a bath on Saturday night. After the power had been off for 48 hours, she was wearing sweatpants, 3 shirts, a sweatshirt, and was wrapped in a couple of blankets. I think the inability to flush the toilet was a biggie! She is not on a boil water notice but I don't think she has been drinking the tapwater yet.
She really was! She got up at 4:30 every morning. Her house was always spotless, she could grow any plant or flower, had a beautiful yard and garden, sewed most of her own clothes and lots for her grandkids, loved to golf, fish, bake, crochet, embroider. She looked after her older brother. Once she was babysitting at my sister's house and I called to talk to her. My niece told me that Granny couldn't come to the phone because she was out in the street playing baseball with my nephew and his friends.
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