Soapweed
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My journal entry for Monday, October 7, 1968
I took the car to town and left it at the Standard Station to get washed. Goodwins gave me a ride to the school house, and we boarded the Gordon-bound bus. It was the usual long monotonous ride.
Our Algebra II assignment consisted of 15 problems to graph. This took me all of study hall. Mr. Curry is giving us three days to finish reading "The Scarlet Letter." As I will be gone the next couple days, I got right to work on it. We had shop in Ag, so I drew up salt bunk plans.
Dinner time finally rolled around. Mom forgot to pack a spoon for the beans, so I borrowed Ken's when he was through. I read until 1:00.
We discussed chapter six in History. I got a worksheet a day early, so I'll be ready for a test when I get back on Thursday. I had plenty to do in the study halls.
Back in Merriman, I got groceries and the mail, and headed home. Dale Marrs said there is over 700 feet of the ETV tower up now. [This tower is 18 miles south of Merriman, on the east side of Highway 61. When completed, it stretched to 1029 feet high. George Shadbolt, a neighboring rancher, was worried about it cluttering up the landscape. He predicted that "it will just comb the airplanes right out of the sky." So far, it hasn't.]
Art Abbott took our club calves to Valentine, so Dad followed in our pickup. He, Sandra, and Sybil might camp in the horse trailer tonight.
When I got home, I put the throttle on the crawler (it came off during stack moving). Then I took the shoulder belts off the car, as they interfere with hats. Lloyd and I came in to supper. Uncle Joy called up and wanted me to work out a square root problem. Our answers agreed. .0290 would be the square root of .00083333. [Keep in mind, there were no calculators in those days. We had to work out the problem with longhand pencil scratches.]
I took the car to town and left it at the Standard Station to get washed. Goodwins gave me a ride to the school house, and we boarded the Gordon-bound bus. It was the usual long monotonous ride.
Our Algebra II assignment consisted of 15 problems to graph. This took me all of study hall. Mr. Curry is giving us three days to finish reading "The Scarlet Letter." As I will be gone the next couple days, I got right to work on it. We had shop in Ag, so I drew up salt bunk plans.
Dinner time finally rolled around. Mom forgot to pack a spoon for the beans, so I borrowed Ken's when he was through. I read until 1:00.
We discussed chapter six in History. I got a worksheet a day early, so I'll be ready for a test when I get back on Thursday. I had plenty to do in the study halls.
Back in Merriman, I got groceries and the mail, and headed home. Dale Marrs said there is over 700 feet of the ETV tower up now. [This tower is 18 miles south of Merriman, on the east side of Highway 61. When completed, it stretched to 1029 feet high. George Shadbolt, a neighboring rancher, was worried about it cluttering up the landscape. He predicted that "it will just comb the airplanes right out of the sky." So far, it hasn't.]
Art Abbott took our club calves to Valentine, so Dad followed in our pickup. He, Sandra, and Sybil might camp in the horse trailer tonight.
When I got home, I put the throttle on the crawler (it came off during stack moving). Then I took the shoulder belts off the car, as they interfere with hats. Lloyd and I came in to supper. Uncle Joy called up and wanted me to work out a square root problem. Our answers agreed. .0290 would be the square root of .00083333. [Keep in mind, there were no calculators in those days. We had to work out the problem with longhand pencil scratches.]