Company
Despite the strain and hassle of this year, and despite our ingrained bashfulness, we did receive guests in Escondido Village, and we did associate with our neighbors. Especially, as I’ve remarked, Linda and Glenda1, who became Valerie’s especial confidantes. Also Dick and Kay Silver, whose firstborn Dicke arrived about the same time Rick did.
This, I think, was right after Rick’s birth, when the Beetle came to town to meet him. As we recall it, Pappy and Mammy were already here. So we don’t understand why they aren’t in the picture. Nor in any others of the occasion that I’ve yet unearthed.
In deference to our compact accommodations, they’d taken a nearby motel room, where we’d gathered to watch General Conference on the television (we didn’t have one; just like now, sorta). Lacking dedicated baby-furniture, we’d put the slumbering Rick in a drawer, where he was snug and happy. Beetle arrived, and we pulled out the drawer to make introductions. Hence Beetle’s perennial line on the subject.
And here’s y’rs truly, enacting the householder’s traditional rôle, presumably for the first time. Pappy and Mammy were our two guests (see the four place settings) for Thanksgiving dinner.2 Again, I search in vain for pictures of the four of us. This is a good enough photo, of course, that I’m reasonably sure Pappy took it.
1Can’t rightly recall Linda’s last name. Glenda, I think, was Mrs Dallas Pope; you’ll see a couple of pictures of him with Rick, further on.
2For our first Thanksgiving, in the Sieve and Crockery Jar, we’d enjoyed, just the two of us, roast Cornish hens with wild rice stuffing. Commented next morning, as we enjoyed the leftovers for breakfast, that we were eating pretty fancy, for poor folk.
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