Marcy was two months into her pregnancy with me at this point, so I suspect that she knew she was pregnant, but I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\r\n
Side note: The self-deprecating comment about illegibility makes me think this is a good place to mention that I rather like Marcy\u2019s handwriting, and it\u2019s very readable.<\/p>\r\n
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\r\nMonday [handwritten: 8\/28\/67]<\/p>\r\n
Hlo.<\/p>\r\n
Another one in longhand\u2014well, Peter is asleep & it\u2019s too cloudy (again) to type outside, & the urge to write has finally appeared so I figured better illegible than not at all.<\/p>\r\n
Thanks for the check\u2014so far I\u2019ve bought myself some embroidery stuff & a couple of books on astrology, for the class I\u2019m not taking (the class in Tarot, Astrology & Kaballah\u2014peter is taking it & there\u2019s always people here talking about it, so I get it too)<\/p>\r\n
What was it\u2014? does the ranch take paying guests? Hardly, it\u2019s all they can do to feed the visiting guests they all have. They board horses, & grow enough vegetables (organic garden: no chemical fertilizers or insecticides) for their own use, & one or two of the guys work in the city & two have previous money of their own. That\u2019s how they survive. Mary Mayshark is temporarily living up there now. (so much room they have!) (she said jealously)\u2014She & Nick (our “priest”) were here yesterday; Nick & Peter went Abalone-ing; Nick used to be a diver & Peter has a wet suit, * so between them they got 6 abalones (sometimes I get tired of Abalone stew)\u2014but Nick got most, & they were for the ranch. Mary told me that Mike Mideke (who is in Y. S.) just got a grant from U. of Wisc. to make a film of some obscure tribe of semi-nomads in India<\/u>!!\u2014rumored amount of grant is $100,000!!!! I\u2019ll believe it when I hear it from him (the amount; I already believe somethin<\/u> happened)<\/p>\r\n
(* if you don\u2019t know what a wet suit is, ask the library)<\/p>\r\n
Carolyn quit the Peace Corps & is wandering around S.E. Asia\u2014Laos, Thailand, etc.\u2014H\u2019ray for her!<\/p>\r\n
Have spent the past week dying of poison oak again (it\u2019s finally going away) & running around madly trying to get our school going\u2014All<\/u> we want to do is have a small private school for about 15 kids, but the amount of work & money involved is staggering. We\u2019re presently dickering w\/ the Mendocino school board for a school building they don\u2019t use in Caspar (6 mi north) & trying to set up a benefit rock show (music, not stones) which just got canceled for Labor Day weekend due to lack of premises\u2014so if we don\u2019t have any money we can\u2019t rent the school\u2014\u2014(our large cat who refuses to get pregnant just sat down on the letter)\u2014\u2014so then where are we at?<\/p>\r\n
Also have been taking care of kids & spending a lot of time making plum jam\u2014really fine to make your own jam & preserves & such\u2014also the myriads of blackberries cause them to be made into jam & pies & pancakes till they come out our ears\u2014<\/p>\r\n
It really doesn\u2019t help much to know I can buy sour dough from a bakery\u2014if you could produce a Jewish bakery up here we wouldn\u2019t need<\/u> to make our own sourdough rye bread. The recipe would have been nice\u2014thanks for trying, though. (Ah, and if someone could produce a delicatessen up here we would all die happy)<\/p>\r\n
How would you like a grandchild? (This is not a matter of decision I ask you, but just a preference: rare, medium, or well-done?)\u2014anyway, we\u2019re thinkin\u2019 about it.<\/p>\r\n
Did you see Fulbright\u2019s book on U.S. foreign policy? The S.F. paper printed some exerpts\u2014it\u2019s beautiful!<\/p>\r\n
We\u2019re thinking about moving\u2014may<\/u> get a larger house rent free\u2014but may have to share with another couple\u2014which is alright, actually\u2014\u2019cept they have 3 cats & a dog. Actually, we may just simply go out of our minds if the sun doesn\u2019t start shining a little more. I might, anyway. \u2014 Anyway, if the school fails, we have some friends in Point Reyes Station (don\u2019t ask me; use a map\u2014it\u2019s near Stinson Beach) who have a small ranch, & we\u2019ll live there or go back to the damn\u2019 city for the winter & make lots of money. (ugh.) \u2014all this is if we don\u2019t get enough money for the school. Also, the 6-day-school in Sonoma has tentatively offered Peter a job teaching math 1 day a week this fall (job means you are paid in food while there & other less tangible benefits)\u2014<\/p>\r\n
We had a lovely trip to Willits, Ukiah, Booneville, Philo, & Comptche the other day\u2014Peter\u2019s been working part time, a day here & there, & going to the class at Lost, but he decided to try for a full-time job at one of the lumber mills\u2014no luck, but it was so beautiful! Wish you could see California\u2014you\u2019d never leave.<\/p>\r\n
End of time\u2014have to go run errands & shop & do laundry\u2014& things. Love from Peter, take care, regards to all.<\/p>\r\n
Love,<\/p>\r\n
Marcia<\/p>\r\n
Note P.O.Box<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
Postmark: Mendocino, CA, Aug 28, 1967. Handwritten: “Rec\u2019d this 8\/30” and “Ans. this 9\/4.”<\/p>\r\n
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