Dearest Famly,
It's Super Bowl Sunday today - the New
England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers. I don't follow sports
unless the teams are local but it's fun to see how much excitement there
is about this game and I have enjoyed seeing all the recipes that are
featured on the television shows for food to be served while watching
the games. I have television on now and the score is 0 - 0 so the teams
must be pretty evenly matched. I think the games are "brutal" and it
amazes me that more players are not killed.
I have had contacts with most of you this
week. Annie & Ron are home from Phoenix where they spent some time with
the Reeves and I know they had a good time. Annie has been such alot of
help with the narrative I have written for Shirley's book - she
corrected alot of my grammatical errors and now she's waiting to receive
Steve & Susanna's family group sheet so she can send it to me - THANKS
SO MUCH!!! Jeannie came over one day with the Summerhays' family group
sheet and now I'm waiting to have her send that to me along with the
Parker's Family group sheet. I hope each one of you will write a little
narrative about your own children. I am going to Wyoming with Margaret
tomorrow and I will be gone all next week SO that will give me just a
few days after I get home to finish everything to send to Shirley.
I mentioned that I was having a hard time
finding the date of Lynn's baptism. John called and asked me if I had
looked in the Mellor Genealogy book that he made a long time ago - I
don't know why I didn't think of that earlier because it has ALL the
dates and information I need. Now I'm going through some current
pictures to go along with the narrative - it all takes SO MUCH time.
Patrice - thanks for sending me Emily's
e-mail address. I have sent her messages before but I don't believe she
has ever received any of them. John was able to access the picture of
Emily and her friends at the "Clark Political Rally" in Little Rock and
he forwarded it on to me. Emily is such a beautiful young woman and I
think it's wonderful that she takes advantage of all the opportunities
she has - I like the young people to be informed about government
things.
Many thanks to Bob for fixing an electrical
outlet problem I was having. I couldn't understand why my fuses would
blow out when I used certain outlets downstairs - he came over and
replaced one of them and then explained all the "amps" different things
used. I don't believe the electrical system in the condos is as good as
it should be because Margaret tells me that she is constantly having
problems like that. It is a good thing he came over when he did. I had
gone someplace and when I came home I found his note telling me that my
garage ceiling was leaking. It has started to thaw here and with all
the snow on my flat roof over the garage it caused a leak. He had put a
garbage pail under it and I called our condo manager the next day and he
came over and fixed it. The roof will have to be repaired but that is
the responsibility of the condo association and sometime I'll get my
garage ceiling repaired.
I told all of you about receiving that "gift
certificate" for a hair cut and color. WELL - last Thursday Margaret,
Patt and I went into Salt Lake to the salon to have it done - they went
with me to make sure I wouldn't back out - Ha!!! WHAT A DRASTIC
CHANGE!!! The beautician said "let's lighten up your hair" and then she
showed me many samples of the different colors available. I finally
told her to just do what she thought would be best so she colored it a
darkish brown and then after thirty minutes she shampooed that and dried
it and then she put all those foil papers in to separate it and put VERY
light brown streaks in it. I know all the "girls" in my family have had
that done but I have never had my hair professionally colored and it
took three hours and I thought she would never get it finished. THEN
she cut it and told me to never use such small curlers when I had a
permanent. She cut ALL my permanent off and it looked really good when
I left but it is hard for me to manage it now. EVERYONE tells me how
much they like it so I will try to keep it this way - I have had dark
hair for 78 years with the exception of the time I went to Little Rock
for the Woods' 50th wedding reception and I don't even look like me
now. I believe I will have to have this done every 4-6 weeks. Margaret
asked her to cut her hair too and that made me happy because she paid
$50 and I didn't pay anything - that is VERY MUCH like Margaret!!!
It's interesting for me to watch all the
political "stuff" on television and I know that none of you ever have
time to do that. I asked John if he watched very much of it and he said
"Mom, I watch about 20 minutes of television a week"!!! I have been
trying to "wean" myself away from television so I bought some "fifties"
cd's and they are WONDERFUL. I never watch soap operas or junk but I do
watch alot of news - I just like to have noise in the house. I think
the "Dean Scream" is SO funny but I actually like him better since that
happened and I think Kerry is just too judgemental of EVERYTHING.
Lee Anna & Jessie - THANK YOU SO MUCH for
your little messages. I appreciate it when my grandchildren actually
read my letters - I with I could make them more interesting!!! Your
lives are so jam packed with MANY very important things and I'm SO proud
of you - KEEP UP YOUR GREAT WORK.
That's all the news - I think. I LOVE EACH
ONE OF YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH. PLEASE BE SO VERY, VERY CAREFUL IN
EVERYTHING YOU DO. Grandma B XXXXXOOOOO
P.S. The score is now 10-14 in favor of the
New England Patriots - 3rd quarter.