Friday, August 15
Dear Andrew and John,
Ann and I went to 6 o'clock Mass this morning and did a little more praying. We're getting around to not praying for the house as such, but only if it's the right thing for us.
They picked up your things this morning at 7:50 a.m. Ann said she was surprised that they were so careful. Each piece was wrapped before it was taken from the house--separately--and then covered again in the truck; also, an itemized list was made and we are to be sent a carbon. There was a $10 charge at the time of pick-up which I believe you get back, but I'm not sure. Now, here's how we worked this. I had called up Johnson Bros. the early part of this week and asked a gal down there if you could get any credit toward extra months of service when you bailed the TV set out of storage. I told her where you were and that the contract had till December 8 to run. She sent a man out on Wednesday to give the set a good checking and said she would cancel the service and date it back to August 1. In the morning's mail, here at the office, I received a check for $16.50, which was darn good of them. So, I'm going to throw this check in our account, from which Ann paid the movers the $10 and we'll count the $10 of that as part of what you contributed to this year's contract; keep it this way till you get home.
Ann asked the fellow on Wednesday what he thought about putting it in storage and he said from his experience it was very and safe there and the only thing he'd recommend was to remove the aerial, which we are safekeeping.
Ann didn't cancel our moving until yesterday morning and that's when the girl at J. Norman Geipe's (I just remembered you don't even know the name of the storage place) told her it was OK to put off the moving but the storage would have to go on schedule as space was reserved as of today. We picked J. Norman G. as they now have a tremendous place on the corner of lolling Road and the Edmondson Highway, not far from Garvey's.
The upstairs is a little bare right now. We have the contents of your drawers in carton boxes and the same with our knick-knacks and a lot of the kids' stuff. You'd be ashamed to see us at meals. Everyone has a different kind of plate. The cutlery is a mixture of salad forks and ice tea spoons and we're drinking out of old jelly glasses.
Another good reason to get a move on is that a week from Sunday, on August 24, is St. Mark's summer collection.
END OF LETTER
Editor's Notes:
Charles' family is moving from Catonsville. Charles' employers, Dr. and Mrs. Burton, have promised him the use of one of their houses in Long Green Valley.
Next Posting: August 19, 1952
Copyright 2012 Stephen A Conner
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