Robert writes home #13
circa 1986
Dear Magdalene,
I enjoyed your letter. That was a generous offer that you made in regard to a family news letter. I'll try to get my family information to you if your willing to put the letter together. I would recommend that we do it once a quarter instead of every month. That would be much oftener than we hear from everyone now and still wouldn't be as hard to keep up with.
Mary went to BYU, Hawaii, about aweek ago. She went alittle early to try to find a job before school starts. She was pretty excited about the whole adventure.
Susie and Paul and Amy are on a trip to Florida for about a week now. They left yesterday. They plan to camp out alot and see Disneyworld and some other sights in between there and their home in Evanston, Il.
After our family reunion Pete stayed with Melinda and Dan for two weeks in Provo, He went to BYU baseball camp for the first week. Then they spent a weekend at Dan't home in Declo Idaho where Dan took him fishing and hiking. He had a great time. He promised to work to repay me the expense of the trip. Collecting was alittle harder for me and not nearly as much fun for him.
School starts next week and the kids are getting pretty anxious. Charlie will be in the 2nd grade. Megan will be in her first year of Jr. HS. Carrie will be in 8th and a cheerleader. Pete is excited about playing football and 8th grade. Heidi will be in 10th grade. She took driver training this summer and will be getting her license after her birthday in December. I think Janet and I are more anxious for her to drive than she is. We haven't had a driver since Mary left two years ago. Six kids at home puts alot of chauffeur load on us.
The garden has done well this summer. My watermelon patch has produced about 70 watermelons so far and they've really been good. We've also had some honeydews, canary and Persian melons. The grapes have been coming on for about three weeks. We have more than we can eat. Our church welfare project is a raisin vineyard. We used to look forward to the harvest because we would glean grapes to bring home and eat for a week afterward, but this time we have more than we can eat at home. The harvest is this weekend.
Dear Magdalene,
I enjoyed your letter. That was a generous offer that you made in regard to a family news letter. I'll try to get my family information to you if your willing to put the letter together. I would recommend that we do it once a quarter instead of every month. That would be much oftener than we hear from everyone now and still wouldn't be as hard to keep up with.
Mary went to BYU, Hawaii, about aweek ago. She went alittle early to try to find a job before school starts. She was pretty excited about the whole adventure.
Susie and Paul and Amy are on a trip to Florida for about a week now. They left yesterday. They plan to camp out alot and see Disneyworld and some other sights in between there and their home in Evanston, Il.
After our family reunion Pete stayed with Melinda and Dan for two weeks in Provo, He went to BYU baseball camp for the first week. Then they spent a weekend at Dan't home in Declo Idaho where Dan took him fishing and hiking. He had a great time. He promised to work to repay me the expense of the trip. Collecting was alittle harder for me and not nearly as much fun for him.
School starts next week and the kids are getting pretty anxious. Charlie will be in the 2nd grade. Megan will be in her first year of Jr. HS. Carrie will be in 8th and a cheerleader. Pete is excited about playing football and 8th grade. Heidi will be in 10th grade. She took driver training this summer and will be getting her license after her birthday in December. I think Janet and I are more anxious for her to drive than she is. We haven't had a driver since Mary left two years ago. Six kids at home puts alot of chauffeur load on us.
The garden has done well this summer. My watermelon patch has produced about 70 watermelons so far and they've really been good. We've also had some honeydews, canary and Persian melons. The grapes have been coming on for about three weeks. We have more than we can eat. Our church welfare project is a raisin vineyard. We used to look forward to the harvest because we would glean grapes to bring home and eat for a week afterward, but this time we have more than we can eat at home. The harvest is this weekend.
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