Monday January 1st 1979
Howard helped me take down Christmas tree. Had to go in to the shop to make 3 funeral pieces for Merle Kirk. Delivered them and made call and then to Mary’s for dinner- sauerkraut and beef! Mother there too. To hospital to visit Paris. He was propped up- good color, good spirits. Says the spot on his lung the size of a nickel was malignant but Dr. Herring says they got it all. Also visited Faye Garverick who is in with exhaustion. Harry, her husband, there for a knee operation. Home about 4:30 after shopping at Hills. Bought aClairol mist hair curler. Worked on editing until 12:00 after spending three hours sorting slides for wildflower talk tomorrow.
When I got home I decided to try to bring up some of the wood the Garvericks and Everhart’s cut last fall. The ground seemed frozen, so decided to drive Olds down and load up. When I got down I saw that water was too deep to get to the wood and couldn’t get the car back up the hill- too slippery. Ralph Boger came and offered to bring his tractor but Kazees (who said they couldn’t come) got here before he did. Cost me $10 for being stupid.