One-page letter, handwritten on graph paper.<\/p>\r\n
\r\nAddress redacted by Jed<\/span><\/p>\r\n
Palo Alto, CA 94306<\/p>\r\n
15 January 1984<\/p>\r\n
Dear Mother & Pop\u2014\u2014<\/p>\r\n
Well as usual I\u2019ve not written thank-you notes yet (well today I wrote John & Dave). Anyway\u2014I guess you know we all had a most enjoyable time on our vacation: thank you so much not only for your putting [up with us \/ us up] for a week, but for your loving & thoughtful presents\/presence. I treasure the afghan quilt you made for me, & will remember you whenever it\u2019s cold & I wrap it around me. The boys also like the \u201creality meters\u201d you gave them: Jed wears the watch, & the travel clock
xxx<\/strike> is very useful beside our PET... now it thinks it\u2019s a \u201cwatch-dog\u201d... Oy, Peter...<\/p>\r\nI\u2019m glad it worked out so well when we came back Saturday\u2014\u2014I had felt guilty that I didn\u2019t get the lady\u2019s storm-windows up, and that I\u2019d left the oil mess on your garage floor. So Don\u2019s sawdust on the floor absorbed most of the oil (the slight stain still left gives the garage \u201csoul\u201d, don\u2019t you think?). And it was a much easier job doing the windows than I had thought (I hope that John got his staple-gun back....)<\/p>\r\n
Guess you know by now \u2014 we had a good time at Harold & Ethel\u2019s, and were glad to see that Gary & his family are doing so well (a brand-new house on ten acres of arable land, with a well--not bad at all...<\/p>\r\n
OK, I\u2019m going to write Paul & Linda next... Take care, thank you, we love you.<\/p>\r\n
Light & Love,<\/p>\r\n
Peter, Jed & Joaquin<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
Notes<\/h2>\r\n
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- \u201cafghan quilt\u201d<\/dt>\r\n
- I\u2019m guessing this is the handmade knitted blanket that I had for many years (might still be in a box in my garage). I don\u2019t think it was really a quilt. Grandma made several items (blanket and cushions and maybe more), all of which I think had little clothing-labels attached that said something like \u201cMade with love by Grandma.\u201d<\/dd>\r\n
- PET<\/dt>\r\n
- Our first home computer was a Commodore PET, initially with a cassette drive and maybe later with a disk drive. I did a bunch of my early programming on that.<\/dd>\r\n
- \u201ccame back Saturday\u201d<\/dt>\r\n
- I initially read \u201ccame back\u201d as meaning \u201cleft Tacoma headed for California,\u201d but now I think it means that we had left George and Helen\u2019s place at some previous point and then returned there on Saturday.<\/dd>\r\n
- Harold and Ethel<\/dt>\r\n
- Harold was Helen\u2019s youngest sibling. For more about Helen and her five siblings, see my blog post Introducing the Hansons<\/a>, from an earlier phase of my family-history project. Ethel was Harold\u2019s wife. I think Gary was one of their sons (and thus Peter\u2019s first cousin), but I\u2019m not sure of that.<\/dd>\r\n
- Harold and his family lived somewhere in Oregon. Apparently we stopped and saw them on the way home, but I have no memory of that.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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