One new thing I learned at the archives is the value of the
humble lead pencil.
In this day and age we have all kinds of pens, pencils and
markers. We have pens that write
underwater, that write upside down, that will write on vertical surfaces
etc.etc. and gel pens, and roller tip pens and sharp tip to wide swath writing
and anything else in between.
However, at the archives, they use pencil a lot because it
does not fade, does not run when wet, leaves no blots on the page and is there
forever unless it is erased. ( I know
about pencil marks on fabric that do not come out even with an eraser working
on them and they will not wash out either.
I am not very lucky with a graphite pencil and quilt markings.)
I have four pencils that I use throughout the day. I sharpen them in the morning and by the end
of the day they are all ready to be sharpened again. In this computer age, who would have thought
that I would be using a humble pencil to write up the headings on the papers
for York County files?
Jeff is back to work and he has brought me loads of
humidified papers. In fact, I have them
flattening under some very heavy boxes from the collection of filled boxes that
Janet has left under the table. When she
comes in tomorrow morning she is going to be really surprised to see the table
full of boxes sitting on some humidified papers trying to keep them flat. I asked Jeff to bring a few bundles of papers
for me so that he would be ahead of the game, and he over did it. He even found some that Art was supposed to
have done but who left the bundle somewhere other than in the digitizing line
up.
Bill went to the YMCA and while he was there, I walked over
to Sally’s Beauty Supply to get some more shampoo for myself. Got some more flat rate boxes to send stuff
home.…just trying to lighten the load for the car to haul back to Prescott.
We were to go to Line Dance tonight but we needed to go
shopping at Hannafords and we are still rather tired after our hectic weekend
in Connecticut. Shopping won out.
My adventure for today was to buy
a small Lobster at Hannafords. I have
been looking at the sign for live lobsters all year and never got up enough
nerve to buy one but now that Lobsters are plentiful, I decided to buy a
LOBSTAH! They cooked it for me and I
brought it home and took the meat out of it and tomorrow in our lunch I will
have a small LOBSTAH Roll for each of us.
I still think it tastes a lot like the crab meat we used to buy at Flemmings
in Caloundra when we went there for holidays.
David has had about a week with
Sara and family and the kids always want him to play CHICK CHICK with
them. He says I’m tired after only a few
minutes and they said to him, “Well, when Grandma comes, she does not get
tired. She plays CHICK CHICK with us all
day.” I guess I am famous for this
game. I do better at it than at Super
Mario Wii. I played super Mario with
Oliver when he was 3 yrs old and pushed the wrong button and turned the whole
thing off. He put his hands on his hips
and said, “You don’t know anything.”
David is due to fly out this evening for Phoenix. He will fly out of Phoenix on Friday to come
to Connecticut for the family reunion.
That kid really gets around.
Sara had an interview last week
for a librarian job at a high school in Lincoln and she is to go back for a
second interview. She is hoping that she
has landed this job. She just found out
that Oliver is to start school on Tuesday 14th August and she will
still be in Connecticut with us at that time.
She is so disappointed that she will not be home for his first day of
school. I was the one who took Ethan to
school on his first day because she was pregnant with Lyla, having problems and
not able to walk that far. Jacob was in
Boston presenting his chemistry paper at the Chemistry conference. This year he is home so he gets to take
Oliver in for his first day of school. Well,
Sara has one more child to go and hopefully she will be able to be on hand to
take Lyla to school for her first day.
Sara called up to ask if we could change her flight plans, but that is
not something we can do this late in the day.
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