More about yesterday

Forgot to say that Dan took us to lunch at the Studio Diner yesterday! I love going there. We went around 2:00 so it was practically empty, and nice and cool, too. My BLT was excellent, made with good ripe tomatoes, curly lettuce (not iceberg), lots of bacon, and thin crisp toasted bread. Henry, the Teenage Eating Machine, who used to barely eat anything, wolfed down an entire 1/2 pound burger with everything except pickles, and a huge pile of fries. And Dan had some kind of open-faced sandwich with meat and cheese, and clam chowder which he said was really good. It was relaxing and fun, a lovely birthday treat!

On the way home we stopped at the craft store so I could get some cotton yarn to start a belt for Henry on my new inkle loom. And then we spent the rest of the day hiding in the air conditioned bedrooms again until Henry had Kung Fu from 6:30 to 9. Chloe came over in the evening and we spent a couple hours scanning more of 1961.

In January 1961, the family went to look at the aftermath of a 45-car train wreck near DeWitt: