Robert writes home #53 20 August 1995



20 August 1995

Dear Mother,
                School starts in a week. Charlie has been out for football for a week. They’re getting all geared up for the big LB vs DP football game to be staged in three weeks.
                Last night was the stake dance in Mariposa. It was perfect weather and a great dance. I drove one of the cars. We didn’t get home until 1:30 AM…too late for an old man like me.
                Melinda and her husband and family were here for a week. While they were here the kids helped me put the roof on one side of the log cabin. We made it by laying a layer of limbs like rafters; then laying a layer of grass; then covering the grass with a layer of mud. I don’t know how well it will work, but that’s what I would do if I were in a survival situation and didn’t have much time to make shingles. We’ll see what happens to it.
                Pete came home today from Vallejo. He has more weeks to work before going back to BYU. He’s really had a good summer selling Clark’s pest control service in the bay area. He has run into irresistible deals on cars and has bought two cars that he is going to take back to BYU and probably sell, eventually. (Either that or go broke). But he is really excited; it’s the first time he has gone to school with a car. One is a BMW and the other is an Alpha Romeo. They’ve both got about 100,000 miles on them. The BMW is the only one that I’ve seen but it looks good and runs good. I hope it works out for him. If he goes broke and needs money before the year’s out maybe he’ll sell it to me for what he paid for it.
                Los Banos ward has a special room now for family history. They had another computer donated to use the family search with so they don’t have to use the clerk’s office computer except in overload circumstances.
                Carrie is working about 10 miles from Niagara Falls, in Canada, now and Heidi is in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
                Hope things are going well in Spain. The gospel’s true.
Love,
Robert, Janet, Charlie and Sam


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