Dec 14, 1972
13119 Hermitage
Dear Family,
Well, the wet, cold and cloudy
weather has continued in Houston but we are promised clearing weather
for the up-coming weekend and I hope the weatherman is correct in
this forecast. At least we haven’t had the freezing rain and ice
which afflicted much of Texas the earlier part of the week. Muriel
wrote from Austin that she went out one evening only wearing her open
sandals and her feet felt like they were frozen by the time she got
back to the dormitory — at Austin like many inland areas in Texas
there was a slick coating of ice over everything and I guess walking
around on this ice was what got her feet cold.
A Shell engineer who had been out
in Los Angeles for a couple of months was driving back to Houston and
encountered the icy conditions in west Texas, skidded off the road
but wasn’t hurt and his car was still running so he limped along
till he could stop & wait out the weather. He finally got to
Houston a couple of days late but happy he made it safely.
Today was drizzly most of the day
at ITC but here at home there were a couple of hard showers — Jean
was out driving in one of them and she said it was about as hard a
rain as she’s driven in.
Last weekend was a pretty full
one. Saturday morning I put up the Christmas tree lights that we had
bought to string along the porch — they look nice but don’t
compare with some of the houses in the area that are literally
festooned with lights. The last time I tried putting up lights like
this was in El Cerrito and it turned out that the lights were faulty
so they kept blowing the fuses when I tried to turn them on; after
that experience it took a long time before I was interested in trying
again.
In the evening we were invited to
the Guthries’ out in Northwest Houston for supper. It started to
rain as we left to go there and kept up all the way, the driving was
pretty miserable. We’d been there once before when we were down her
in February househunting but had sort of forgotten the way so we got
lost a couple of times before we finally found the way. But it was a
good evening and we learned a new word game that was interesting to
play. It was after midnight when we got home so we were slow getting
started Sunday morning. Laurel & Jean stayed home from church,
Laurel because she had a cold & Jean to get ready for our guests
Sunday afternoon, but Palma & I went to class at least, walking
instead of driving the car over.
In the afternoon we had the Wests
for lunch, the afternoon & for supper. Frank is a fellow Shell
engineer & Marian is a LWV [League of Women Voters] acquaintance
of Jean’s from El Cerrito. It was a good afternoon of conversation.
The Wests are down here only till next summer when Franks has his 80
points & will retire — he’s about 5 years old than I but with
fewer years of work at Shell. They are going back to California for
the holidays.
Monday I took off as a day of
vacation and spent the day on various jobs, including varnishing an
old trunk that we’d found in Jean’s dad’s basement after his
death and which we took along to Texas. Jean expect to use it to
store blankets in. It was rather chilly out in the garage doing this
but I got it done (even tho it took almost two days for the varnish
to dry). I finished off the day watching football on TV in the
evening (along with some of the moon shots) as I’d missed out on
all the Sunday football games.
This week I was afraid I’d have
to drive myself but it’s turned out that I didn’t have to for
which I’m duly thankful — next week should be normal again with
trike training over & the regular drive on hand again.
Tuesday evening Jean & I went
to see some old houses in Sam Houston park decorated for Christmas,
really quite colorful.
All for this time
With love, Carl
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