Today was a crazy day.
We went in early and started work right away. Bill has a goal of dong at least two and
possibly 3 boxes a day. My job, on the
other hand, consists of unfolding wet 200+ year old papers and flattening them
out, putting paper between them and trying to keep all the little pieces of
paper together.
After I have made a pile of wet papers, I put a heavy box on
top of them to keep them flat. So far we
have used all of Janet’s boxes as weights.
When she came in today she asked where her box was that was near her
chair and we pointed to all our “paper weights”. I do not know if she is happy or not, but at
least she did not say I could not use them in this manner. Big problem is that we have used up all her
heavy boxes and cannot humidify more papers until we write up the ones we have
and then spread out the new papers and the list goes on and on and on and on. There were 35 cubic feet of tightly wrapped
court papers from York County that we are working on and we have not finished
humidifying one cubic foot of papers yet and I am on my 8th archival
box of “prepared for digitizing” court records for York Co.
We talked to Sara today.
She has been hired for the librarian job at a high school not far from
where they live. There is just one more
formality to go through and she will be working as early as Thursday this
week. We are very excited for her for
this position. Of course it means that
there will have to be some rearranging of the family schedule to accommodate the
40 hour week she will work, but they have it all worked out. They are also looking for a larger house because
growing boys and a dancing little girl need more room than what they have now. We wish the luck.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, Jacob has an appointment in Omaha with
another specialist for one last shot at antibiotics for his liver problem. They want to get him on the liver transplant
list and so they are waiting and hoping and praying for a miracle. Germany looms near as well but they will
choose the best course.
The big adventure for the day today was coming home and
being able to cook a real meal and have time to eat it. Guess that does not sound like much, but to
us it is a real treat to be able to do just that. I looked through my recipe box for Oatmeal
cookies to take on Thursday for the Eagle Scout Court of Honor and I find that
I do not have a recipe for Oatmeal cookies but rather found a recipe for Congo
Squares. This was the favorite recipe of
one of the girls in the Young Women organization
at the Johnstown ward. She raved over
these squares and had the recipe memorized.
I have not made it for years, but made it tonight. I hope they taste as good today as they did
38 years ago.
In any case, cooking anything at sea level is a real
adventure – have to put away the extra flour etc. that we need at 5500 feet and
other recipe adjustments etc.etc.
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