Da Bears-- Doink* (D)

Gainesville

A football day. Glad to see the Steelers advance, but very unhappy to watch the hated Panthers advance at the expense of Da Bears. Good grief-- what if the Super Bown turns out to be Denver vs Carolina? Maybe we won't even watch, since there's no way they both can lose!

Fixed a dreadful dinner-- the main dish (chicken with a mustard/apricot glaze) was tolerable, but I totally blew it with the sides-- over-roasted the asparagus at too high a heat, and turned the kale into crunch dust by not adding water to the braise-- d'oh!) Strangely, Bill ate and like all of it. He must have been really hungry.

Must purge the fridge tomorrow-- it's amazing how much stuff accumulates in it when you cook five nights a week and let it for for weeks at a time. I expect some grim discoveries.

I slept really late, but after going to bed really late, it only amounted to 9 hours, a bit of catch-up for the week-day deficit, but not nearly enough.

So glad tomorrow is a holiday for us. I've made up my mind to take at least one 3-day weekend per month until I retire. Of course, I'll need to take more than that, but that's the minimum.

We've finally arrived at the Iowa departure in the Diry. In some cases, I seem to have copied the entry from the separate, illustrated Trip Diary, or maybe it was vice versa. Anyway, missing pages start soon. There are at least 20 or so more entries scattered through the rest of the year.

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Friday, July 18, 1952
200th Day--166 Days to Follow

Dear Diary
This morning I woke up at 6:15 & Sandy & Pat weren't awake yet. I got up and dressed & built a fire. When they got up we cooked breakfast. I cleaned up the kitchen real good. We had our permenents & they came out pretty good. I got some new shoes & a hat with sun glasses. We are having our barbeque at Pat's.Brainy almost came but didn't (Thank goodness) Suzy

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[Iowa vacation symbol: dark shining star above date heading]
Saturday, July 19, 1952
201st Day--156 Days to Follow

Dear Diary
This morning we woke up at Pat's, read a while & then Dad came to get us we paked & went up to Pa & Dan's with P. Dan bought us nighties & neat swag bags. We started out at about 4:00 PM. We went thru Walnut Creek & had dinner in Lodei Then up to Sacramento and up past Loomis and Auburn. We finally pulled up in some kind of clearing to spend the night in the car. It is somewhere near Truckee.
Suzy