Tuesday AfternoonDear Pat:
Well how's the play coming along. I hope your children's play went over with a bang. We're planning on being there for the show. Grandma as far as we know is coming along. I don't know if we can talk dad in staying over for Sunday or not. You know he likes to get off the Parkway before it gets to[o] late in the day on Sunday, as it gets very crowded, especially if it's a pretty day. If it wouldn't be for that he would stay over. I don't know where we'll stay, for the night, dad is sort of fond of Harford Motel, although we didn't have any heat the last time. He'll have to let you know about that. I don't think the CI Inn sounds so good, it doesn't look like it would have good beds.
Well Tim meet [sic] up with her first trip to the doctor's. Saturday, dad left her out when he was out to cut the lawn and all afternoon we couldn't find her. I was at the dentist's and started looking for her around four and went out two or three times. There was a lot of lawn mowers going and we thought she might hide out until everything was quite [sic], of course, we werelooking [sic] up in trees all the time. The last time about 6 I went out and was going to pick some flowers for club that night and I just happened to see her in the window areaway [sic]but she didn't get up when I talked to her, like she always does and she didn't answer when I cal led [sic], so I thought she was just scared. She was hid good and just by luck I saw her, so I moved things away and picked her up and took her in and put her down, well then her back end wouldn't navigate right, something like Friskey was. So we had to take her to the doctor's and he said she didn't have any broken bones but just strained her tendons and muscles and that she must have jumped from a distant. [sic] Well your guess is as good as ours, she probably climbed up somewhere to hide or get away from something and either fell down or jumped down. So she's been pampered all week, carried up to bed and down to her box and so on. She's beginning to eat better now and can get around almost as good as new, although she favors her left foot a little yet. When she's not thinking about it and goes to play or go after a bug, she gets around good, dad says she's just bluffing to get more attention. I guess she won't want to go out at day any more. She seems to like the night though. The doc says we can't get her spaded [sic] until around six months old. Dad says it would be a nice Christmas gift. I don't think she'll be along, as she gets to[o] scared to ride in cars for a long time. I think she'd enjoy home more and then we'd have to let her in the car a lot and that wouldn't be to[o] good.
As I said before we had club saturday [sic] night, as I traded with Jane on account of the County Fair this Saturday. We went for a ride on Sunday and had a flat and when we went to put the spare tire on, it was flat for a while we thought we'd be stuck out in nowhere, but some kind soul stopped and gave dad courage and we finally got the spare pumped up and stopped at a garage in Starview about four miles away and in good time as the spare was going down again, it's no good. We had four nails in the tire.
I got the things back from Marion and they look very nice, now all I have to do is put the gold on some of them. I'm not going to put the gold on the ask [sic] trays with the girl and witch, I'm afraid something might happen to them, they look nice just as they are. The one ash tray is enought [sic] to give to one girl.
The Gazette had open house last night and I helped give out pads. We had about 300 people to go thru. We're open next Tuesday and the following Wednesday.
Everyone is okay here, Kim too. I hope you get enought [sic] sleep and take care of yourself that you don't get a cold. Maybe you should have your coat drycleaned, if it's so dirty. I've been wearing your suede jacket some around here, it goes just with my new tan suede shoes. I hope you don't mind.
Don't forget your lessons. Your peppermints will be on their way today some time.
Tanke [sic] care and have fun, be seeing you soon,
Love,
Mother