One-and-a-half-page handwritten letter on animals-making-jokes stationery. The joke on this one shows two small cartoon birds sitting on sunflowers; one says, \u201cDo you know how tall sunflowers grow?\u201d and the other responds, \u201cThe same way short ones do!\u201d<\/p>\r\n
On the top of this, Helen wrote: \u201cKeep\u2014precious letter from dear boy.\u201d Which I find a little embarrassing\u2014I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an especially great letter, and I wonder if the fact that I rarely wrote to them made it seem more valuable to her. :(<\/p>\r\n
\r\n4-8-84<\/p>\r\n
Dear Grandma and Grandpa<\/p>\r\n
Thank you for the car key. So far I haven\u2019t had a chance to use it (I haven\u2019t taken my driving test yet at the DMV because I haven\u2019t had any practice since New Year\u2019s and driving partway home from Washington). Peter has been very busy at work and I\u2019ve been busy with schoolwork (the third quarter of the school year just ended). That\u2019s also the reason this letter is so late (sorry)\u2014I had an oral report due on my birthday and was sick all weekend after that and through Monday. Then I had make-up work and tests (one math test which I still haven\u2019t taken) and so I\u2019ve been very short on time until just now.<\/p>\r\n
Although I didn\u2019t have a party, I went to one two days after my birthday\u2014two sisters whose birthdays (2 years apart) are on the 31st of March and April 1st.<\/p>\r\n
Grandma\u2014I have enjoyed using the afghan that you knitted for Peter (I sometimes wrap myself in it if it\u2019s cold while I watch TV or do homework). If I paid for the materials, would you consider
making<\/strike> knitting a scarf for me? There\u2019s no hurry, and it\u2019s not for anything in particular\u2014just that several of my friends in a club I belong to have long, woolly scarves and when I ask where to get one, they say they had them knitted by relatives.<\/p>\r\nI hear that you\u2019re going on vacation in Europe! I hope you enjoy it! It sounds like a great way to relax!<\/p>\r\n
Love (and thanks again),<\/p>\r\n
your grandson Jed<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
Notes<\/h2>\r\n
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- car key<\/dt>\r\n
- I assume that (part of) my birthday present from George and Helen had been a key to Peter\u2019s car. I apparently had my learner\u2019s permit (which let me drive under adult supervision, and which iIrc student drivers could get at age 15½) but didn\u2019t yet have my license (having just turned 16).<\/dd>\r\n
- scarf<\/dt>\r\n
- IIrc, Helen did end up knitting me a scarf. I think I liked it quite a bit, but other scarves that I liked better later supplanted it. \u2026Helen may well have been happy to get this request, for all I know, but even so, I feel like it was poor form for me to send a thank-you note that included a request for another gift that would require Helen\u2019s time and work.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A thank-you note from me, and a request for a scarf. \u201cseveral of my friends in a club I belong to have long, woolly scarves and when I ask where to get one, they say they had them knitted by relatives.\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":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-jed","category-palo-alto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/pmjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}