Thursday, October 10, 1946

October 10, 1946

664 W 13th St

San Pedro, Calif

Dear Father, Mother and the rest of the folks at home,

Today and yesterday have been fairly warm days — yesterday the temperature got up to 85°F and today it was supposed to get even warmer, and I believe it did. Last night from 7 to 8 there was quite a meteor shower in the northwest sky here as a result of the earth’s passing thru the path taken by comet a short time previously. Since the sky was clear it was quite easy to see the brighter meteors. However the moon was quite bright and the lights of the city made it a little more difficult to see the less bright ones. I stood and watched the sky for 10-15 minutes and it was really quite interesting. Perhaps it wasn’t visible in the middle-west but if it was I hope the night was clear so that you could view it.

As I wrote in my last letter, I spent the weekend in Los Angeles with Zene so I didn’t get around to writing the usual Sunday letter home. I enjoyed the visit more than I had anticipated altho we didn’t so much except talk etc. I got there about 4:30 in the afternoon after spending about 2¼ hours getting there. We talked and looked at his books till suppertime and after supper set out to see the Griffith planetarium but his car developed generator trouble so we turned back.

Sunday morning I went to S.S. with Mrs. Jasaitis and their two boys; she was teaching the youngest class all by herself and she asked me to come along and visit the class and help her — usually another lady comes also but she went fishing last Sunday. I didn’t do much good but I enjoyed it after a fashion. It was rather a madhouse tho. In the afternoon I watched Zene fix watches (his hobby & sparetime vocation) after he had repaired the generator on his car. Monday morning I rose back to work with him which ended the weekend.

When I went I really didn’t expect to enjoy myself but I certainly did. They have two boys as I mentioned before — Zeno and Mikal, 4 and 1½ respectively. Zeno is quite bright (he can read some already) but Mikal seems to be a much more interesting character, being more lively etc. He likes to sing and sings whenever he is enjoying himself. Neither are good looking, but they apparently have everything else except that. It was certainly fun to watch them. Zene has a quite extensive watch repairing establishment including a machine which will measure the time the time a watch gains or loses per day in a matter of thirty seconds which he demonstrated to me. I knew he did watch-repairing but I wasn’t aware that he did so much.

The rest of the week has gone on much as usual. I am now practicing regularly at the N.L.C. and it has proved quite satisfactory so far. Today I had a letter from Vivian and she seems to have plenty to keep herself occupied. This is about all for now.

With love

C.P.