Wednesday, December 27, 1989
10:00- 5:00 7 hours volunteer
Royce cleaned while I updated Huber and MCHS databases and wrote announcement letters for open house (MCHS) and annual meeting (Huber). In at 3:30 to Heritage Hall to run Huber letter. Several phone calls while there. Took MCHS open house announcements to Quick Print and ordered 600 copies.
Picked Mary up and went to Ponderosa for dinner. Had trout- so good. Then to Sears and check on dustbuster didn’t buy Sears. Took her home and in to look at lamp she had in attic to replace my ‘Gone with the Wind’ that has broken shade. Also gave me an oak splint basket that had been Kenny’s.
Trailer park boys over and shoveled upper driveway. Gave them each a dollar and a bag of Campbell’s candy. About four more inches of snow.
[review of 1989:]
AIDS named in 1982 70,000 deaths by 1989. promiscuity over. space shuttles Challenger explosion superconductors. Reagan victory over carter. Bush victory over dukakis. fire in Yellowstone National park. earthquake in Armenia and San francisco. Mount St Helens eruption. pollution, garbage, toxic waste, population explosion using up natural resources. Global warming. rainforest cutting. stories that shape the agents. decline and fall of communist empire. Bill Berlin Wall falls. hostage taking by islamics fourfold increase in terrorism. marriage of Prince Charles and diana. Central American, panama, Marcos disposed and Philippines and later died. drugs crack inner-city deteriorating addicted newborns. computers, cellular phones, microchips, Yuppie and TV evangelist downfall. fitness. cholesterol, tv, cheers. oprah. et, Roger rabbit, tag me and Lacey Tootsie wheel of fortune, Cosby show. Murder She wrote. Golden Girls. Amen. Top Gun.