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Well, hi y'all.
Oh, I'll turn the volume up then we might get better success. Well, hi, y'all folks, I started to write a letter, but didn't get terribly far. So I thought I'd just sit down tonight and make a quick tape off to you. catch you up on all the news.
Well, just looked away to get a nice cup of coffee made with my new coffee maker that I bought yesterday, which is a great success.
And get my diary, which isn't terribly up to date. But I thought I'd better to refer to it to keep on narrow. I thought I'd go back to the flat tirere on the day that mum and deadly. I have been just thinking about you all so much because I'm sure that with brother David and Nty else and everyone else, you've had some terrific laughs over some of the things that happened. I thought the flat tirere on the final day was just the lum.
It really was. I don't know whether a mum told you all, but she had some drama mine tablets, which she had bought the day before, and she was discussing at 7 AM in the morning whether or not to take one. And she read the instructions, And it said to take one half an hour before travel. And she said, oh, well, it's far too early. Well, I told her after we got the puncher that she should have taken it half now before travelling with me.
Well, that particular morning, you'll remember that we got the flat tire of about quarter past 8. and John got there about 9. You finally got to the airport, I think at 9,27. Well I drove back to where wed left the car on northside Parkway, and John had gone, It'd said if he wasn't there to meet him out at Mariettta. So I started to go out there but he passed me on the way. He'd been to get the tire pumped up and so we swap the cars and I came on home. And then he got out to work and called me because he had received your message from the airport, but the flight had been delayed. So I immediately called the airport and.
They paid you. I think that was something like 20 past 10 at the time I waited till about 20 to 11 and.
Rang again. and the guy told me that the flight was had boarded at about quarter two. And I guess you left about 11 o'clock. So at least when you you were on board. and then, of course, when Marcisha came back, she told me that you'd had such an exhausting tro. And of course, there was the earthquake in San Diego when you were in LA. I didn't know whether you wouldn't have felt that it was so far away, but I thought that would have been just another thing to add to your.
T that.
Anyway, so we got the puncher fixed up all right and everything was back on deck while it was really strange I got home that day and started mucking around and we had put an advertisement in the paper while you were up north to find somewhere else to to move to and that afternoon this lady Mrs. Elsson called and.
Was just rang up to see you know what sort of thing that we were prepared to do and so on.
And I had put that we were New Zealand doesn' the newspaper and she asked if we happen to know Bev and Jack Shields and I said, of course yes to what we did and she talked on a little bit longer and then the whole thing seemed to be.
Qu.
Fammiliar to me, I had been talking to Beverly about 15 minutes before, and she had been telling me about this little cottage that they used to rent.
Anyway, I said to this lady, it isn't6 That isn't the love's house is it who were the previous tenants of the previous people that owned the mansion. that Be and Jack knew. And she said, yes, it is. We're the third owners of it. the love were the second. And we just couldn't get over it. She thought it was very coincidental too, It was sort of history repeating us. So So she was very keen to meet us. And we made an arrangements to meet her the next, the next evening. But in fact, we met her the night afterwards.
And she sounded awful nice on the telephone so.
Anyway, what happened was we went around there and we found that this is the most beautiful house it's called Rhod Anddron Hall.
And Maitlin was quite brieflyless he said, oh we you going to live in that big house?"
And we knocked at the side door, There' servants quarters on one side of the house. and it enormous big house. And this lady came to Mrus Eson came to the door, and she went over to the intercom and called Harry the 14 year old down and said, would he take the children up to his room. So they were all excited and went tearing off up there. and John and I were ushered into one of the lounges or whatever through the great hall of the house. And it's really most unusual. Its was built in the 1930s. And the previous these people, the Olssons have owned it for eight years.
 but only loved up suck. They bought it eight years ago, but it was.
At the time that they watered, it had had a fire throughout. And so the whole thing was gutted. So, in fact, although the outside of it is very old loyaltyty, the inside is very, very modern.
They had it completely redone.
And she showed us around the garden and so on. There's mostly rhed in froms enormous trees. A lot great deal of land. It's behind the north side William C A, which we showed to you, which was on Roswell Road. And it's the street that I used to run up every morning from the wire that when I running with the girls.
It's got an enormous driveway you can hardly see their house from the road and the cottage that we shall have has separate access from the street behind and you can't see the mansion from the cottage the cottages two bedrooms and the lounge and dining room, kitchen bathroom and completely self contained, which will be tremendous.
 we haven't actually even seen in the house yet because she has had to et the tenants that are in there they're just straight out renting it and of course we'll be getting it rent free for doing the gardens but.
The law is here. they must get if.
They want at 60 days notice, so we're not sure quite when they're moving out yet.
Should, should be hopefully fairly soon. I mean, now that they know they have to go, they probably won't stay there the whole 60 days, but they are entitled to. And I guess if they decide to buy a house or something, they may push it to the lum, which will be mid December. We're hoping to be in before them, but it really won't make much difference. We've made other arrangements this weekend. We're moving into some.
Furnished villas, which are very handy to work and school and so on. And we think we'll be you perfectly okay there until we move into the cottage. We'd quite like to get into it, though and get it decorated and do with what we want to.
There will be quite a lot of work to do around this enormous house. Of course, they have a s pool, but somebody does come into clean that every week, which is a relief because that's quite a big job. There's a pool house, which is quite large, which they would like painted the next summer. and all the outdoor furniture gets painted every year in the spring. And the immediate job, I suppose will be the leaves because it's full right now and.
You just must fall here. It's been very pretty, but nowhere near as far as we think.
As pretty as New England was last year for us.
So there'll be the leaves to do. And someone comes in once a month and most the major part of the lawns, But they do like the domestic areas around the pool and just around the house mowed more regularly than that. So we'll do that smaller part. And there's a lot of roted denrums and shrubs. but like most American gardens has' varied a few flowers and things. mostly little hedges.
There's just one rose garden and there's a vegetable patch which hasn't been developed very recently, but we'll dig that over and of course it'll be a benefit to us to the grow vegetables too, so I shall need some advice from Dorothy on how to grow radishes instead of baing and I'll be able to get into a better gardening I hope.
So that's been all very exciting and it certainly took the.
The dullness of mum and dads departing away a little was a big help.
Anyway, of course, with all these changes in plan, we decided that.
We'd find some self contained accommodation would be much more practical, it's very difficult living with other people.
And but the thing is that Mrus Eson doesn't require any housework done or anything. They have full time maids. they have a man, I think full time and a woman maid. And she stays over on a Friday and Saturday night and takes care of Harry if they're out. they want us to live in the mansion while they are out of town and just take care of him. And he's 14, the same age as Johns Shids and, of course, goes to Westminster with John. So, and we had met him when we were taking care of the Shids house prior to Christmas last year. So he was a familiar little face he's a cute little fellow very young. They have two older children.
I away at Harvard.
And they're a Jewish family, of course.
And they seem very, very nice indeed. And I think there'll be so much room for the children to play that there will never be any sort of.
Personal sort of strains or anything because they live so far away. We needd rarely never see them. There's a tennis court, which is just right behind our little cottage really, And they don't play tennis. So I guess we'll get the pretty much sole use of that. And Missus Esin said that we could use the pool at any time, of course, during the summer, I imagine if they're not having pool parties or whatever.
So as far as the children are tremendous in the little street that our house will be and on a circle is just a little short street, very small, a bit like where we are here. So there'll be very little traffic. And the school bus stops right on the corner just two houses away. So the children will be dropped right at home each afternoon. So in the meantime, John had talked to Bob Whitehar at work, the orthodontic guy. and he said that he would like to take me on on a 30 hour a week sort of basis because he was getting busier. And in the meantime, that very same.
He decided to move from the laboratory where John works, and he got a place just down the road.
Which is very nice, it's on the commercial dwelling in Marita.
It's a house on an ordinary section, quite a large section, and it's a little twobed in place. and he's got his laboratory set up out back. and he's got a little room for an office where I'll do the accounts and things. And he'll be living there too. He was living some 30 miles away from work. So I was doing an awful lot of travelling. So he might get settled down and getting more business now.
And so I started out there Monday week ago.
And mostly we've been moving and trying to get organized at the stage he hasn't even got the new phone on yet but it should prove to be quite good and it's only two blocks from where John is and I can take the children too because it's his home there's you know he's got all his belongings there and so on if the children was sick or had a day off from school or holidays or anything at least I can take them with me and you know they can watch television or do whatever it'll be most convenient.
There'd be no problems babysitting or anything.
So that all took place too since you've left so things have changed quite dramatically and of course that same day that I started work Elliot wentton into the daycare centre was buried in the daycare centre should I say she goes there first thing in the morning and comes home last thing at night and she was there just two days and on the third day she threw up.
She didn't she didn't rise again and she threw up again.
She just threw out and threw out and threw out well on the Thursday Maitland got it and on the Friday he was still sort of off color Friday night late Rachel got it two o'clock in the morning she was up throwing up all night and she was pretty weak all day Saturday and on Sunday John went with Kent one of the guys from his laboratory and his girlfriend Priscilla and took Kent's little or his brother's little boy who's the same age as Maitlon they went to car racing up at Road.
Atlanta for the day. and I stayed home with reach and I started feeling strange. And by that night I was so. and then that was was today Tuesday. that was Sunday night. and Ruth and Jimmy went out and they came home at midnight or something. and by2 o'clock in the morning, Ruthie was throwing up. She had the day off yesterday. John came home in the afternoon with it. and Jimmy had the day off today. So it've been right through the house. It's very very, very quick It's yet you were not sort of over. but it's fairly violent while you've got it. So it's been through us all now. So we sort of.
By the time Jimmy gets up tomorrow, we'll be back on deck again.
While the children are all terribly excited tomorrow of course is the 31st of October in Halloween, so we went out with our $5 each.
To Richway and we purchased our new Halloween suits.
It tookook at least an hour and a half to decide there was so many to choose from and all the candy was reduced that day so we bought a whole lot of candy big bag full of candy to give to the kids when they come but Maitland's going to be an alien which is the grossest looking thing I've ever seen it's sort of it's naturally an alien looking face but it's got this kind of clear plastic forward and head top of head thing and it looks kind of brain losslyly looks like cry I'm sure I'll scare somebody but poor all right she she can't as much as she said, oh I want to have something we're all spooky because she had a sunnderella dress up suit which she like but when we get out there she wanted to buy another sunnderella and I said I thought you want to be someone spook.
Because it's all sort of Frankenstein and all that sort of thing we get out there and she sort of went right off the scary one and wanted to be a pretty little thing so in the end she bought Kepa the Fri ghost so she just can't be cruel though right so she's going to be Ca for the friendly ghost and they're real excited I went down to the school and.
This week they need help with they have little Halloween parties in the classrooms and I had to get the apple juice for Rachel class on the country town lemonade for the Maitland's class and we're going to the party tomorrow it' at2 o'clock and they're going to lady called me this evening one of the.
Ro mothers who was organizing all the food and stuff and she said they've got a haunted house organised and they're going to do ghastly things like poke their fingers and cold spaghetti and so the kids should have a great time I can imagine spaghetti being fl all over the classrooms anyway the kids are real excited and so we've said daylight savings started too by the way on Saturday night so of course it's getting dark it' sex 30 which is ghastly but at least it's a little lighter in the morning because it was so dark in the morning of course until and.
So.
I said that they could go out with Mari and Aha you know the kids from up the road but Marhi and Asha said they don't go out to seven and Ive said well they either go out from five to seven or they don't go with them so I think they Mari and Aha will probably find theyre going a little bit earlier I'm not letting them out up seven because it's just too dark.
Anyway, and they've got to be very careful, apparently a lot of people give them weirdo things and nasty tricks.
So.
That's that and of course we went to church last Sunday and mother will be interested to know that our discussion was the river and Dr class last weekend and Sunday school class for the oldies and we discussed the KKK I tell you the things ain't what they used to be it's getting more and more interesting and of course I was just about.
h to hold myself down the seat and I was dying to ask was there any members of the KKK in the congregation because I'm sure they're very light is but I didn't have to ask too far several of the people that spokeoke said that they didn't have to go far on their families or amongst their friends, especially having lived in the South here all their lives to have been personally involved with somebody that had been a member of the KKK, we've had has been a resurgence here throughout the whole country but just recently or one night last week week before they had a program called.
Undercover with the KKK, a guy that worked for the FBI, so of course, it sort of stirred everything up.
And.
Anyway Rachel sang beautifully in the choir she was okay by Sunday thank goodness she'd been sick on Saturday and actually we went down to the church on Saturday because they had the church bazaar they had a pickwis pub there and they were serving tea and cookies I felt like telling them it should be tea and biscuits but anyway.
And.
We went out to Mar her on Saturday tour and did a little bit of work.
 and so on helped God.
Anyway, what else has been happening and oh well, of course Kennedy has finally decided to make it more state himself that.
He is going to run for the presid so and of course you've probably read that the mayor of Chicago, who's a woman had given her vote to Carter a few weeks ago but it has done a complete turnabout and has now supporting Kennedy so there's been a lot of Kennedy Carter sort of stuff actually the president has said very, very little about any of it and the first comment he made was because they're always talking about.
Mis Misss. Lollian his mother is called Miss Lollian, a lot of people must sort of I don't know whether her stems from the black days or what, but she's Miss Lollan, they're always talking about Miss Lollian, but Kennedy's mother Rose had said that she would give you know her blessinglic to it if he wanted to run for president and that was spttered all over the papers and then just the other day Carter made the comment that he would run he would.
R for president again when he had his mother's approval to do so, which I thought was the first sort of sarcastic thing he' said, so it's going to be an interesting election.
I think especially it'll be our first one of course and the fact that this has happened is quite strange and another Kennedy is.
ushPushing meack a bit fair, I think.
So it should be quite interesting to see what happens.
I hadn't really been.
doing much else because we've been pretty busy working but I've been buying a few things because this place will be unfurnished and we will have to buy a few things I bought a it's called toaster oven and it can cook it's one of those little sort of you probably saw everybody has them here on their benches they're like little grillilla toast of things but you can actually cook a little meal on it and that's very very handy they're are only about $30 things like that are very much cheaper here and I bought one of those.
Coffee makers which is the drop kind you probably saw those two everybody uses those and I got one for $16 so you know it was really cheap 10 cup so I've been making coffee madley ever since.
We booked I bought a few more things for the kids, a few more clothes and I bought myself a skirt and sweater the other week which is very nice for winter and Thanksgiving and sort of Christmas and so on we really oh I going back to there's a sale on it all the Thanksgiving sales are on and everything's.
You know, very very cheap at the moment.
And going back to Rich weather for Christmas trees for sale, so I just can't wait to buy one.
And.
Because we want to have a Christmas tree this year and a lot of stockings and all the rest of it will be rough.
We'd had a letter from Ruth An Bob Bman's sister and she'd invited to to St. Louis, but I don't think we'll be able to make it this year, we'll stick around here, I think we'll probably have miles of gardening to do.
And.
What else is news?
Oh Marcisha said they had a great time with you they really enjoyed seeing you but they said you were looking forward to getting home because you were pretty exhausted it must have been a hell of long trip you must have been traveling around about 20 hours I worked out all in all and then you still only were two-thirds of the way home so you must have been pretty tired but I'm sure you've caught up by an hour and had a lot of fun with all the family.
Unpacked all your goodies and float it over it all and have started writing your memoirs.
So I keep thinking the funny little things that have happened and.
You know, really it quite funny. Oh we got another roll of photos back too that they were we were these Oh that's right there was.
Must have been the film that was stolen on John's camera.
 was the last ones, all were some gorgeous ones of the kids in the garden that morning that we came back from church and took the ones of the children in the front of Jimmy's garden and so on, so we're going to get copies of those and send them to you because they really turned out very well.
And.
What your album.
And.
What else has happened.
How we have had the most beautiful weather. It's the leaves of all changed colour and it's been into the 80s during the day, set between 70 and 80 and drops down to about 45 to 50 at night, which is just cool and nice and the days are sort of really hot and very pleasant The choir, I was just thinking about the children, the choirs going well.
You know, they're moving along and the rage is going to oh her Sunday school class last week won the the.
I will question time or whatever and they're all going to McDonald's for breakfast next Sunday morning at Sunday school time.
And then the following week she's going to six flags with the choir kids and of course grease lightning striving on in there well it's really funny Metland's improving but he's all leagues and he's just so small and last week they played a team called the Str Stingers that tried the sting as well there was only one kid in the team and he was a Little Black Boy.
He must have been a good foot tall than any other kid on the field and you know Carter, you'd remember Carter because without Carter the mainstay, the team, G light things's not quite as lightening as all that and looked Carlo and and when he met his mother she's a very attractive blonde, very blonde girl.
Because he was very fair if you remember.
 his father is a state legislator and he's the one that's been coaching the team he had the glasses sort of a feeling she's a lot a lot younger something like 22 years younger than he has and he had the glasses the coach that had the glasses anyway so he was coaching them last week anyway they played this team while this little black boy was the any black boy on the field and his father was there and he was standing on the shady side of the field and all I could see was these big beaming white teeth he just could was Ka's payjamas well our little team fought on very well because they played it1 in the morning we've discovered that playing at four in the afternoon they're just so tired that well both teams.
re both as disadvantage but they're so tired that they really sort of peak out about halfway but at 11 they were quite strong and they had a little boy in our team who saved something like five goals from going in from this black because once he got through the lines there was just you know our team went into a complete state of panic and just brought on down the field and even car last little runner he just facedd them with the length of his legs and he'd just get through the defense and was all over and anyway they fought tall a third.
 into the third quarter it was still one each and then the last quarter it was two one to the other team and in the last five minutes he got three goals and the our goalkeeper ended up in tears they were all in a state of dismay it was really very sad but they just sort of got so tired and this could was just so fast and they just seemed to forgettable their offense and the other thing was that the little black boy I guess because he was so much bigger they just left him for the whole four quarters which of course they usually don't do you know how they changed them around to give all the boys a go because our of fence was a week at one point and they were down they win but really was quite funny.
And so they've only got about three or four more games before Christmas because they stopped soccer.
Soccer finishes at the end of November and then they start again at the beginning of February for spring soccer.
And play for another three months which overlaps with baseball so we decided that just tonight I went to the wire tonight and it's not really worth Maitland playing baseball because it really hasn't quite mastered soccer yet so we think perhaps that when he's mastered one game we shall.
Move on to another but in the meantime basketball starts third of December so we've put Ra down to start playing indoor basketball during the wintertime they play December January February and that'll do her good but they've got to be seven by the 1t of September so Matt one's too young for that so only Ra will do it and that'll be good and the little place that we're moving into is right behind the waym CO so that we able to use the swimming pool there in the wintertime the heated poll so it should work out very well we're very close to you remember where the travel agents was.
It's just south of there oh not terribly fair at all that's kind of large shopping centre and that's called the tuxedo shopping centre or it's just sort of south of there towards the YMCA it's really we'll be very convenient it's more convenient to shops and things than we are here and like I said it's still on the zone for the school and so on so it'll really work out well we're really excited about it.
Well.
Rucy was funny when Ruthy was sack what today Tuesday, Monday when Ruthy was sack to meet to Elliot off of would take his enter and Ruy stayed home on her own all day and Elliott was still had diarrhea very badly.
I don't know, the poor kids's just going to be buried unless blast.
Oh, excuse me, now should I say, well, excuse me.
I thought I'd missed up the volume again, I usually do it every time, but.
Seems that it's all okay.
So we was like, oh yeah, verying Elot Na here C.
The dayca centre is a 24 hour job of course and the lady takes see hostess as children like you know three days on when they're three days on, four days off and so on and that's quite different she has to all overnight quite different to seven days and seven nights a week which is what will happen Ruthy told me she's got a booked in there this weekend.
It's just really sad and I've noticed that they've started taking them for a short for a school every night to the stop sign if you please that's, you know, just up.
For Helen belong to the right list there.
And the child never sees the light of Dan, the house is right on Piedmont Road, which is real buzzing, and there's no fence is there anything so obviously significance out of the house all day.
So it really breaks your heart.
I wish we could take her whether she's such a dear we but she's getting such a team now, she's just so much to handle I really can't I've had her long enough, you know as far as you've got to be devoted from this point on.
And.
So you're not real sad.
Anyway, I went and had my haircut tonight and Rick was very pleased to hear that you're here it turned out, okay, I hope it's still all right and that you are finding that's no trouble and that you've been doing the conditioning treatment I told you about, must do that.
And leaving something on it that, makes it nice and fresh.
Anyway, I cut an article out of the Constitution last weekend about his boss that cellon was called Jamison on Don Shows, their brothers and Don Show is very famous seems and he was just last week flown to New York to do Brisilla Presley's here that the office' exwife she has decided to become a movie star or whatever and do some commercials and so on and she's going to create herself for herself a whole new image and he went up to design her hair and so on and he's apparently done some very famous people's hair.
And that salon is really very good, so I'll send you the clipping because it's quite interesting to think that you'd been there.
I'm really pleased with my hat and items he said it seems to cut up so evenly and neatly and he's got such a good style.
So.
That was that, what else have we done today?
And.
 the night that I found out about Mrs. Olen in the cottage and so I was so excited and I said, heaven I have to tell wely this beeverly couldn't believe that she just said,  oh my goodness it's history repeating itself because it's probably 18 years since they actually lived in the cottage themselves what happened in their instance was that the loves.
who owned the house at the time, also Jewish people had several children too, but only one at home who was 14, which is really quite strange and they were aware a lot also they had cotton plantations and they used to go down and stay on the plantations and things from time to time I gather.
AndSo B and Jack, I don't know where they were living at the time, but they didn't have the boys in those days and because they were both teaching at Westminster then too, and they had been looking for accommodation.
The lovers had the cottage and she beeverly must have asked Mrs. Love about on one occasion and she said that their son and daughter inl or somebody was loving it up while they were building a new house and they even thought another thing about it and then one day Mrs. Love called her and said that they had moved out and that they would very much like even Jack to have the cottage and that I think they probably lived there in free too and all they had to do was take care take this little girl to school and back each day which of course they were going to anyway and take care of her when they were away and they actually lived in the manion for nine months on one occasion while they were overseas.
And then the interesting Mrs. Eson told us quite a story about her.
Told us how they got the house, well, first of all, Bi and Jack looked there like for three years about 15 16 years ago because I think they bought their house on West Wesley before the boys were born.
Anyway.
Eight years ago, Mr. Eson became well must have been proud of that became Bri and they wanted to sell the house and it was on the market and the Mr. Love became Bri and the Esons did look at it anyway.
Apparently Mr. Rosen decided that they could not afford the price that they had on the house and the real estate agent said to him well you put in an offer and he said no, because he felt that the house was worth it, but he just simply could not afford it, which Jimmy found rather thesterical, apparently he's a multimillionaire of some Maltese and anyway.
But we all have our priorities and he said that he you know wasn't prepared to pay that much according to whatever so they sort of dropped the whole thing anyway in the meantime the house had the severe fire went right through it and the whole of all the kitchen and lounge and hallway and all the you know the main areas had been gututted I don't know how much of upstairs was damaged but it's been completely reorganised and so while it was burned out and then Mr. Love became very ill and has since died but I gather prior to him dying the house.
After the fire they called the Eins and said would they still be interested in buying it and Mr. Eson said yes they would, and she said he said,Well why you know, why did you call us and she said," well you were the only people?"
That did not.
I'm trying.
Bringing the price on the house down that you you liked it enough and you felt that it was worth that so they finally sold it to them for the difference between what the insurance company paid out and the price they had originally asked which obviously as far as they were concerned was a sch but they must have spent many, many, many millions over bank just doing it up again they apparently imported people from Europe and all sorts to do the work on the place.
And it's really very beautifulau I gather it's not everybody's taste now because it's very modern and houses down here tend to be very colonial and traditional and it's not readily acceptable to have a modern house.
Anyway, so they boarded eight years ago and took two years to do up and moved into it six years ago.
AndWere about to repeat history while moving in there too it really is really funny and because the lady said to me you know any friends of the shield they could feel very happy about it so we're very lucky that we know Bvanja and so on.
And the other interesting thing was I said to bena, she'll probably call you for references or whatever and she never ever did, which I thought was awful sweet of her she just.
Well actually this little woman to be told anyway I'm sure she'll make a own assessment of paper and she did, she just made us know as far as she was concerned it was all wrong so we're really looking forward to it I think it'll be fun.
Actually it was we're just a little bit it's unfortunate that we almost were able to move into the mansion for the next few weeks because when she called me back some days later, they had just been invited to go to China and she said if that happened you we could move into the house while they were away but he's going on his own now so we're not going to do that we'll move into these furnished apartments for a few weeks until it's really and we thought we also may want to do a little bit of decorating before we move into the cottage when the people move out so you be more comfortable if we can clean it up and do a few things to it and we do need to buy some furniture.
It big borrow or steal some or something and.
Anyway but he apparently has made it was quite funny because we haven't sort of told anybody who they are but what seems to know and Jimmy said they're probably the second wealthiest man, he's probably the second wealthiest man in Atlanta, he owns the book.
What are you going to?
Concession rights at Atlanta Airport and Chicago and I don't know whether New York and the others but he the one in Atlanta here apparently makes a fortune and there was a three page article about him in the newspaper just recently about a month ago everybody said oh there was an article about him but of course we didn't realize at the time so I wish that I had read the paper more carefullyly.
And.
So they're pretty well known around the town.
 you know most appealing people she's very, very attractive lady, I think very tall and dark and sort of Jewish looking and very small children Harry is much smaller than John Shields he's not a big boy either anyway the night that we first found out about this it turned out was people his birthday so I tore around there in the evening to tell her the big news and too.
G her a birthday present and I get there and indeed you remember Deie the girl from the cottage where she was there and I get Beverly and her aside and said where are the boys where are the boys you know I didn't want to say anything in front of the boys because we didn't know at that point whether we were going to be moving in or anything and I told Beverly she you was chatting away anyway Beverly rang me the next day to say how funny it was because here we were all being very terribly diplomatic and trying not to the boys here in case you know little Harry and everything and John had been upstairs doing his homeworkwork and Beverly said the funny thing was the whole time John had.
d known while we were talking, John knew Harry had called him immediately and told him all about it and so he knew the gossip up before we did before Beverly.
Anyway.
So that was Beverly's birthday and then when I went to visit Beverly on Saturday and it was Jack's 50th birthday so he had got a new measure for he throws discuss no no Javelins and he'd got a new measure for his 50th birthday.
They're all fat well, everything seems to be pretty much the same over there and David is always very kind and always you know interested in how we all are and everything very, very good to us.
They said they really enjoyed meeting you all and how nice it was to see you and I hope that everything I sorted out right I still have had no accounts from any hospitals anywhere so that's most interesting so I hope you're getting on right then in claiming a bit little bit some pieces don.
 suppose that amounts to really all that much considering it'll be the hospital bills that'll be heavy but they haven't turned up so let's not worry, at least it gives you time to get your holiday expenses paid off before you have to start worrying about those things.
I don't know. I can't think of anything else we've been doing. We think we've been flat out. I can't imagine doing a what. I guess we were just sort of.
Getting everything back together. Getting everything back.
Together after you liftft and then of course all these changes have happened and I'll just have a little quick look at my dog.
Ha hadd a zillion replies to our advertisement as we had the previous time, including the case that I had the previous time as well, who hounded me day and night.
Mostly, you know.
Ordinary people, but.
Sor of, you know, we had restricted ourselves to this area this time because of the children at school we didn't want to move them again and the school is really so nice and the kids are settled down so well that.
You know we decided and we like this area too, I mean it is the nicest part of town and that helps really because when people ring up you can just, you know you know exactly where you want to be.
So a lot of people, there's an incredible amount of women want their kids taken care of and there you know twins of three and all kinds of things but I'm just not prepared to take care of children I mean you know that's why the mothers don't want to do it so I not really don't want to get tired down with kids Elliot was you know fine wash she was little but.
She'd got to be a real.
Holy tear in the car and that, you know, the last week was just beadle and that had sort of happened overnight when she started walking really, so she was okay till a year old and then she just got.
Re busy, busy and just real hard to handle.
And so I just don't want to be involved with children, so I'm what I'm going to be doing for Ba I'm going to learn what he's doing.
That is making the orthodontic compliances, but a funny thing happened today, one of his doctors, Dr. Toff, who is a really nice guy, one of the ones I think I might have told you'd been to New Zealand and he once study.
Study molds made of.
The teeth like they have sort before and after so that if the parents complain about all this money they're spending, they can show them how much the children's teeth have changed, they take an aion when the kids come in and then you know like when they've finished having all the treatment done paid $2000 then they show them what the difference is.
And these study molds are very sort of pretty, you know they'd make them quite polish the up and all the rest of it anyway I on the way back he said that the guy that the woman that had been doing them for them wasn't prepared to pick up and deliver and of course I go there twice a week and they wanted Bob to do them because it would be convenient with for delivery service.
Anyway, Iubba wasn't interested because it had mentioned it before.
I' know back I thought I'm sure John could do that so I asked him so he called them this afternoon and he's going to do them he reckons I can learn to do them fairly quickly so we'll do that on the side, which is quite good to.
We should be able to get you know quite a few dollars a seat for them, it'll be a little bit of extra money, which will be nice.
With Bob I'll do all the delivery so I'll learn the work and I'm going to keep his box too now that he's moving he used to use the accountant lady that works in John's laboratoryatory but now that he's moving he won't have that service that came like with the rent.
You know,I'll be doing that for them, but it's not very complicated, it pretty much runs a cash because everybody pays every month.
So that's good oh yeah, two or three days after you left what you left on the Monday on the Wednesday I went to the dentist on you know Rachel's too front teeth crossing over the likelihood well there's definite possibility she will be having orthodontic work done fairly shortly.
 straighttraighten the teeth out, they're not too worried about them right now, but I guess she'll eventually have something on her.
Fronie, youre sort of out of it here and as you do.
And.
Anyway, so then I went home and I'd broken a teeth a couple months ago.
First of all the girl cleaned my teeth and John had told me wasn an experience that as having your teeth cleaned here they don't do them like they do at home, she must have spent 45 minutes cleaning my teeth, flossing them and cleaning them a polishing them and carrying on with cheerery flavoured paste and all the rest of it and she told me I had water to war mouth of them anyway Roy Johnson came in you know the dentist that John's sponsors us.
And he pointed to my gold tooth in the front and said, oh wouldn't youre like a pretty one there and I said to the girls right for him to band you around pretty one's here pretty one's there about $300 each or more and she said oh well he wants to do quite a lot off and I said, oh does he really say anyhow John came home one night a few days later he hadn't spoken to Ray Johnson since and I said heaven work he wants to do you know about1 thousand dollars and John said a thousand0 he wants to do most of my teeth what has happened here is that and people you know my age and so I'm like when you've had heavily?
Teeth that once are fell breaks, they will continue to break obviously the rested life and every time you get them filled up again I guess they take a bit more teeth away and the chance of decay is less likely if they crown the teeth so they certainly do not fell anymore they just crown the teeth and so they're going to take out they're starting tomorrow I've got my first two and a half hour appointment tomorrow morning.
And they're going to start crowning all my teeth and so what I'd said to John was gosh, this is a big costing about$1000 and Johnson said and the rest I said well how much and Roy Johnson said this I need $3000 with a work done on my teeth I just about to a flow anyway I think that hopefully all I have to pay for underneath the crown every crown has a silver lining every crown has a gold lining and we have to pay for the gold because of course you know it's getting more expensive every day but I imagine wouldn't be as much as like a front when you have a goal.
Pte on your teeth, but it's just a very fun layer of gold.
We only have to pay for the basic amount which I don't know what it'll come to but it certainly won't be anywhere near $3000 and I'm having I don't know how many he's going to do but it sounds like a hell of a lot off that I'm going to be ground so it'll be quite interesting to see I'll probably have a beaming smile I'll have to smile a lot when I get all that done.
Oh hell I just remembered yeah I had a postcard from Joan day before yesterday from Tapo I think they were more often on Tpo than they in Wellington every time she writes it's from Tao asked the only time she gets a chance and she said.
Poor old Jane, she said have you received our birthday present She what is it first of November tomorrow the next day and she must you told me months and months and months ago that she was sending them because I remember you making the comment that she was hit of you that you know you hadn't thought about it kind of and she had was already organizingising her present and they just have not turned up and I'm so mad its I to her and said to put a tracer on but this is just ridiculous I don't know where the game missing but somebody's got it done for us because you know but it's weird it's happened both ways you know we've had real bad luck so poster is just sort of out I think unless we can register it or afford to send an emaill don't send it because it's just absolute waste of money.
And you know, as you see, we can buy just about everything here except for the things that we discussed that we fancy New Zealand goody diet things.
 October, so it's 60 days from then, but I'd say they'll move out before that if they found a place to go to. They went too happy about moving, but she said, let's just give them a week to call down and then hopefully we can find out what they are going to do.
So just use this surgery and I'll pop around and pick up the mail.
And.
You know, I think Ruthdy and Jimmy will be a lot happier.
Just, you know, on their own again, they're sort of, you know, they're so terribly tense all the time. And she reckon she's not going travel anymore. It just about had enough of that. But he can't sort of draw the line of giving up work. nor she had a big cut back and pay till. That was the the big crunch. She became. She was a 12 month.
Paid teacher, which has been the schools they were only paid for  nine months. and or 1 months. And she was a 12 months. and she's been not back to 11, but still waiting for 12. And so she still taking a huge cut and salary. I' know the hell she sticks with the job quite frankly. I really got quite mad the other night down at soccer. one of the girls, L Zgler, who may be coming to New Zealand next year, her husband's with Coca Colder. and theyre I think they're having a conference, which I imagine would be in Auckland.
.
She was she takes the trying and organizeise a PE program. Do you know that we do not have a PE program or an art program And just this last week or two they've started both in our school, but they're all done by volunteers Of course that's a terrific exercise trying to organize the volunteers to do it physical education is compulsory half an hour a day, but of course what the teachers do if they're not interested is just take the kids out into the playground and say go to it for half an hour and.
So Ly and she works, she's a real estate agent and she's pretty busy, but she's making the time to organise the PE program.
And.
You know, it really bugs me that there's this.
Stup had follow through that Ruy is flying all over the country and going to places like Las Vegas. Can you believe it. And as dad said, you know what the hell is she doing selling it outside of Georgia. And just her salary alone, let alone all the other damn hangers on that worked there with her There' a stack off them weren't there. They're all spending all this money. And, and they've got heartily sold their own program to anybody anyway. And here we are without even a P program.
You know, I really feel like the money could be better spent elsewhere anyway.
That were pretty fortunate at Jackson, you know, because they have terrific parent participation Oh we also got the little Do you remember actually telling you about the spice sets they were going to sell to raise money for the school well.
They got them home and on typical true American style they had all these fancy prizes. There was really nice, you know radio cassettes like this one that Im I won the big one that was first prize and there was oh all kinds of there was I think five really very large prizes and.
There were smaller ones and if you sold six of the spices which have got sneeze proof powder she told everybody and cry proof onions and dried onions you know and then there oh god just beat the bely didn't buy a whole pack you could buy them and virtuallyly but they had a seasoning which made hamburger taste like steak no I just knew be buy it and sure enough she did.
And they had to sell six sets. If they sold six sets, which were $7 each or $.75 a bottle,,24 bottles.
They went an electric yoyo when I went in with Rachel's form today because I had to have them back by today and she had sold the success. She really walked them around the neighbour and everywhere. and she really worked hard. Maitlin came back with Mark. Mark went out to help him sell them and he came backm tired and everything else. So I put all the extra ones that we got from like the laboratory and then on to Rachels. and she ended up. She got her success. So she was happy. I think she sold altogether 28 bottles of these things, which wasn't bad going..
Mland sold, I think about tea or something.
So he won't want any big prizes, but I it was pretty hard to sell him, because the.
The letter that came home from the school said that they would prefer, well that they would not recommend that the children sold them door to door in a net they could encourage such a thing with the murder rate here over 200 letters of today's statistics and so on And the weird things that heaven, but so they said, you know, just that the parents please sell them amongst their friends and banks or not at all if you didn't want to just you know pets buy when yourself.
Anyway.
So.
What was I saying.
But Rachel went just to her through the houses around the neighbourhood andhawked them off. She seemed to do pretty well.
And.
Oh that's right. Yeah, there was a little boy. she says a little boy in her class sold 28 seat. He went down to some shopping mall or something. he he might not have been in her class. He might have been a first or sixth grader but older and he went down to the real estate agents and.
Caaught all the people as they came in on a Saturday or something, which is the sort of thing that I can always remember. one of our Zter functions or things in one we had raffle tickets was some damn thing. I can't remember. We were always selling something. Kate Harour and and B and went off down to the whves and caught the war fees in the lunchch and they did an incredibly well. So that was the sort of place to go. It's like going to the railway station.
Anyway, Rachelie was thrilled she wants the electric Yoo she didn't want to win the first prize anyway.
She won one second, I think, which was something that she faned bit of first prize.
So.
Anyway, I think that' pretty much covers what's been there thing.
I hope now that you've got home and settled down and able to reflect upon your trip that you enjoyed the memories and I think it was you know, well with the hassle on the expense and all the rest of it you certainly had some funny things happen and you know we've laughed about a lot of the things that happen it's great to look over the photos isn't I think that really brings it back you know days like that day at Oki Fockia really you know, really tremendous.
And.
That was a very beautiful place I was thrilled to go there because we hadn't seen that before, too. And I think Disney World is something one must see. Actually, you know, that's really weird this business about dad's feet and the pressure, because if it is pressure, I'm wondering if it was those two very busyy days that we spent walking. I mean, he, he really wouldn't know whether his feet were all like we would. You know, how our feet start burning and getting tired. that he probably wouldn't dumb or known.
It was a pretty big day at Disney World, and weve had a fairly restless night the night before when we kept changing our motel site or whatever so.
He had a few risksless night people cl around on the top of the camp and all the rest of it.
So I sort of wonder if it was that, but I'm dying to hear what the neurologists and everybody else has said back there and if they're healing up, okay, everybody's been asking me, they're right, I since they looked a whole lot better.
You know, when you got Becky from New York and so on and they really did like a whole lot better.
I hope your photos from up that way have turned out okay, too.
And.
Anyway, so else was there Oh and what about David and Doc their house and everything as they settled down all right does David like the new your, I hope he does.
I bet it's great, really great to have from there what is it summer coming on, what will I be going to the crook, I suppose at the moment or shortly or already or something.
And of course, we've had the God has it been every dark night has' been the world.
Wld.
Cle whatever the baseball playoffs World Series, yeah so.
Be org ago with fair John and Jimmy had been watching night after night, Ruth has to come down to the family room and watch Pol out series.
And.
It of a problem with so many televisions and so many people are wanting to be in different ranges.
Anyway.
But that', I think pretty much covers what we've been up to.
Oh, we have found some.
All those guide things that you have to the National Art Gallery too here do you want them, I want mothers off them to you if you want them there they fell out of a newspaper what Joe Ed and sort of felt that property you'd wanted to take home and decided that you weren't prepared to take another suitcaseful newspapers but they were in there but you might like to keep them as mementos keepsakes or whatever.
I suppose you've start just rap book or what by now that'll be fun bringing that together. you know, it's some nice to have a nice some.
Book.
I can't wait till we get into this little cottage and sort of get a few things together and get them on.
Perhaps get our photographs and things in too because it's really a major job. And I just never seem to have.
Had the time here of inclination muscle.
Sot of.
You know, not being younger.
So do things that when you feel like itching I'll be super theyll Mara, you know isn't she a hoot she's got a terrific sense for humor mara and she's a hell of an nice person. I'm just lyinging to be able to just have them around for the evening as well from here are good fun.
And.
It'll be nice to have them over, sit on the floor and have a meal with us or something but she said, oh she's just thrilled about that we're leaving here she thinks it's great and thrilled that we've got a place that we can call our own.
She out and yelled her hearts content that, you know, other people on the house and.
Anyway, she said, oh and no more shits, cause you know what Jimmymy shirts aren not gone. So I said to John to, I'm not even get him by an I. I bet that we'll need one. we'll just put something under a book if we want a priest I just don't we want to see another iron in the life because we iron' very little before I'd do I about once every three weeks at home. You, I put it in a little pile and fold everything else neatly, but.
Those shirts are a real killer. So actually the irons Mars behind this week,ca I, I kept it up last week, but this week, I got a bit behind with everyone being sick. And I Elot had this vomiting and diarrhea for so many days that she was going through clothes and bedding like wild fire.
It was all I could do to kind of keep that with ear washing.
So anyway I'll get it all done I think we'll move on Saturday because the soccer game was at full and we thought we might move in the morning and then just buzz off to church on Sunday and pack the day to ourselves this little places.
Oh you probably don't remember it but the back route to Mariieto was the Ps Ferry Road, which is not the freeway but the other way and it's just sort of on the way out to John's it's just outside of the parmeter you know it?
285, if you look on the map, there's that parametermeter freeway that goes right around the study where it's just on the other side of the not far away at all.
And.
It it's really big. It's got two bathrooms in the kitchen and a lounge and dining room.
Two bedrooms and like I said, two bathrooms, theres a non suite, I final of the bathroom and bedroom.
And it's carpeted and finished. and we can have London and China and all thats supplied for another $45 a month. But we don't think that we've got enough junk to get through and we'll be buying.
A few things now all the sales are on, so that's a really good time to be buying a few household appliances' they.
We'll just need a few sheets and then I want to make the kids room them real cute and get them a couple of decent beads and seminar nice sheets and those.
 called them comfort as, you know they quilted.
Things I'll buy them some nice bedroom things and they can.
We'll probably paint paint the place that made, you know, make it really, really pretty.
So.
Re asked day.
I want to get this tape off to you to Morrow. I guess there'll be a letter. I got your letter Saturday week ago from Honolulu. Elmarsha was all upt, to, because she said that you had mentioned about stamps and all the hasselles you have with post others and stamps and all the rest of her. And then shed got to give you when you were on the bus and it was too late or something. and she was wearing herself so she didn't dare mention to me had I had my letter because she felt that she was personally responsible. She didn't think it was ever going to turn up. And she wast quite a st over.
 I hit to La. but, oh, I've had time, too to look through our book on New Zealand London.
All the things that you bought and Rachel was using the dictionary, which is wonderful.
And.
You know, it's the things that you wore the little dolls and they're really thrilled to be with all their little things.
So.
Yeah.
I think that's about all but oh yeah, I guess there'll be a letter from you any day now, so I guess we'll cross leaders but.
As soon as I get the hospital accounts I'll shoot them off to you I imagine by now you've checked with the insurance company and are' kind of just waiting for them so I'll shoot them off as soon as they arrive, I'll clear that like I say we'll be leaving here Saturday but I'll pop round during the week and pick up the mail anyway.
When I bring thatland to soccer twice a week so you I can pop and then and do that.
Panda.
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I think that's about all I hope I'll see Ri are okay, hey, listen Tony must be about two to arrive, I suppose it's November.
I guess if you'll be home for Christmas, I hope everything turns out okay for them and let they.
Managed to move an I.
The car we haven't heard any news on the Honda yet.
But that's no big deal we can you know, hold off we haven't heard anything from Crane daily either, so I'm still driving around in.
They are super rude.
I went to Wilmonjeta to buy this toaster thing on the coffee thing and left the lights on of course when I came out and it was raining yesterday and of course the battery went flat on me and John had to come down and charge it up and that was.
When he got started coming over with this awful thing bag thing that we've all had.
And so and I hadn't eaten the day before and I got so hungry sitting outside Almonds waiting for my went to Weies and had a hot and juicy hamburger. And I said to Ruy, that's what you need because I've been fed as a backre since I had that so obviously that's the cure of the ailment, a true American hamburger.
And.
A apart from the battery being flat it's going okay but Bob had a looked at it today and he's going to change the spark plugs and things he said that they've put it on that'll make a big deal of difference to it.
So it should be going a whole lot better.
And.
I think that's about all the all the news I have. of course it's Thanksgiving in three weeks. so Rachel, I'll be quite involved that they have a lot of extra things at the church over that period, so we'll be busy down there.
Well, the tape's about to run out again, so it was really great seeing you all and we miss you and we look forward to your letters and take care of yourselves.
Oh hear from you saying, bye y'all.