Handwritten note on a fold-and-mail card. Written the same day as the previous letter (the one from Helen).<\/p>\r\n
\r\nJuly 28, 1976<\/p>\r\n
Dear Grandma, Grandpa, & Jed & Joaquin<\/p>\r\n
It seems like I\u2019ve been trying to write this letter for days, and not sure what\u2019s happening so it\u2019s hard to figure out what to write. What\u2019s been on our minds is the problem of getting Jed & Joaquin home again. The 15000<\/u><\/sup> for the plane flight up there just about did us under - now we are back up to zero but not sure what to do. No idea of several aspects of the situation - like:<\/p>\r\n
Whether the boys have just about stayed out their welcome - I expect this may be the case, as we agreed to a month & that is over....<\/p>\r\n
Whether they\u2019re enjoying themselves more there<\/u> than they would be at home - I expect this<\/u> is the case, too, as here it would be babysitters and tired parents pretty constantly.<\/p>\r\n
Whether John is planning to come down here, with or without family, & whether he\u2019d want to bring them on such a
xxx<\/strike> long trip - particularly 3<\/u> kids in a car- and if so, when, and if not - well....<\/p>\r\nHow long Peter\u2019s job will last (not very - a week or two, I\u2019d guess-) and whether he\u2019ll be able to get another, and whether he\u2019ll be able to hitch-hike up & bring them back, which may be a possibility (that\u2019s possibility, I think)<\/p>\r\n
I guess a phone call would clear it all up, but we\u2019re already into Ma Bell for quite a bit that hasn\u2019t been paid, so I hoped we could get it clear in a letter.<\/p>\r\n
So, we\u2019d sure appreciate knowing not only what\u2019s in the offing at your end, but how everyone feels about it. Jed & Quin, take into account this little-known fact if you are in a hurry to return-: Aimee & Gillian will be gone for the whole month of August.<\/p>\r\n
\u2019Quin, your bazooka tool kit came - it is very<\/u> tiny & seems like no box, just a few two-inch tools wrapped in heavy paper. Our dog\u2019s name<\/span> & Jones are up to their usual tricks, Bob (the roomer) finally moved in, Salvator stayed with us for one day and is now working for Doris, the Mercedes is a little closer to being fixed, and I am learning how to make fancy letters for signs. That\u2019s all the news I can think of. I hope you are having a lovely time and delighting your relatives. We love you all!<\/p>\r\n
P&M<\/p>\r\n
P.S. Alan & Cindy may come to visit us in August. They will be looking for a house somewhere pretty close to San Francisco. Remember their puppy, Cayambi? She must be bigger than our dog\u2019s name<\/span> by now.<\/p>\r\n
You guys could maybe write us a letter!<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
Notes<\/h2>\r\n
\r\n
- money<\/dt>\r\n
- I\u2019m a little surprised that Peter and Marcy spent the last of their money to put us on a one-way plane flight with no plan about how to get us home. I wonder if this note was meant as a request for George and Helen to pay for our flight back.<\/dd>\r\n
- \u201c3<\/u> kids\u201d<\/dt>\r\n
- Me and Jay and our cousin, Dobe\u2019s stepdaughter.<\/dd>\r\n
- \u201cHow long Peter\u2019s job will last\u201d<\/dt>\r\n
- Presumably referring to the carpentry job that Peter had mentioned in his previous letter.<\/dd>\r\n
- Aimee & Gillian<\/dt>\r\n
- Good friends of Jay\u2019s and mine, about the same ages as us. I have occasionally wondered how their lives went after we dropped out of touch with them, but I don\u2019t know their last name.<\/dd>\r\n
- bazooka<\/dt>\r\n
- I\u2019m guessing that this was something that Jay had sent away for from Bazooka bubble gum.<\/dd>\r\n
- Jones<\/dt>\r\n
- I vaguely think this may have been a cat? I have no memory of it.<\/dd>\r\n
- Doris<\/dt>\r\n
- I can almost remember who Doris was, but not quite. :)<\/dd>\r\n
- Mercedes<\/dt>\r\n
- We had a Mercedes diesel car for a while. I assume it was used when we acquired it.<\/dd>\r\n
- Alan & Cindy<\/dt>\r\n
- Marcy\u2019s cousin and his wife.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marcy wonders how to get Jed and Jay home from the trip to see George and Helen. \u201cThe 15000<\/u><\/sup> for the plane flight up there just about did us under – now we are back up to zero but not sure what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-marcy","category-cotati"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}