Dobby Reporting, Live, from... (D)

Gainesville

Worked like a house slave-- uh, I mean a Fly Baby-- most of the day. Got the sheets changed and laundered. Towels, ditto. Bill's bathroom properly cleaned after too long. And the long-delayed Fridge Purdge-- not as bad a expected, but still required a supplemental dishwasher load: dealt with THREE loads today. Great to have some breathing room in Joe Cool. Still have the Wilter bin to go, though. Also decluttered the room temp fruit/veg bins.

Managed to find 1.5 hours to finish up the scanning for the recent Sunday comics supplement. It's a daunting chore, as my scanner is small-- not quite wide enough for the width of the comics page, and requiring three length-wise scans that then have to be pieced together. Finally they're done. The scans from the library collection should be easier, once I pick out a date; they have heavy-duty large scanners.

Also finished Shadow Boxer, the sequel to E.J.'s novel, The Distance. I did not want it to end! It has been such good company over the past few weeks. It's going to be hard getting into anything else. The same problem in the car: I finished Ladder of Years, and have nothing else on tape for listening. I ended up replaying the last tape again. And, I must say, enjoying it just as much. I don't doubt I could play ALL of my books on tapes again and make driving anywhere a non-stop joyous clambake . I just love being read to-- anything halfway decent will do.

My tree remains standing, empty. My boxes (ratty old cardboard boxes all, but each with its own memory of time and place) remain unstowed. Let's hope this happens before Mom and Sandy visit.

In the alternate timeline, The Kid heads east-- and some of this sounds strangely familiar...

[Vacation symbol]
[Away from home symbol]
[Iowa vacation symbol]
[Cartoon outlines of "Nev" and "Utah," latter with approx location of Grantsville shown as shining point]
Sunday, July 20, 1952
202nd Day--164 Days to Follow

Dear Diary
We got up at 4:00 and drove on to Reno. Had Toast. When we hit Lovelock we had break. at the Sun Cafe. We then went on to Winnamucka and Elko where we had our own lunch (The dessert sure is hot.) Then we went over the line to Utah and crossed the Salt Lake desert. We had dinner at Grantsville & are staying at a Motel here. "Little Reno" Suzy

[Vacation symbol]
[Away from home symbol]
[Iowa vacation symbol]
[Cartoon outline of "Utah"]
Monday, July 21, 1952
203rd Day--163 Days to Follow

Dear Diary
We left the Motel about six and had break. at Salt Lake City. We went to Temple sqr. & had a tour thru it. We then went to a museum & the State house. We had lunch there. After lunch we set out on 40 & hit Vernal at about six. We are staying at the "Antlers" Motel. Had dinner at Vernal Hotel. Having fun. Suzy