Post date: Aug 15, 2014 3:53:29 PM
25 October 1966
Well, the end is near. Saturday I laid new flooring in my room. Sunday I packed a couple of packets of stuff, and yesterday mailed the first one. It has five model house kits, four sweaters, and two lettering stencils (used). The second to go will have 50 DM worth of house kits, two sweaters, technical drawings of my demonstration organ, a suit jacket, and woodcuts of Augsburg. The third box is all books and papers. I still have a lot of junk, mostly small, top-drawer stuff, to throw in somewhere. I’ll try to send my tools with the car and insure them well. Then if the box gets swiped it will be only a matter of rummaging through Sears’ basement with an insurance check in hand. [I still use this toolbox, and took it to Nicaragua with me Winter 2013-14. It is very tired-looking.]
I was sort of planning on visiting my friends in New Jersey who lived a year in Frankfurt. We wanted to visit some organ companies. I could do that before the weekend of the 19th and 20th and be in New York to see Mom. I sort of wanted to go to Boston Monday and Tuesday, but if it is too much to drive to SF airport twice in one week, I’ll be glad t change my plans. I can also fly to San José. My planned arrival time of 7pm may be too bad for driving. I thought of the drive SF to Aptos but not the one before. Perhaps I could postpone coming until Wednesday noon? Maybe when I get there I’l decide to come home Sunday with Mom.
My demonstration organ is just about finished. I finally obtained some very fine leather for the bellows and pressure-valve and it remains only to build in the pipes which I am making now after hours in the pipe workshop. To ease the trouble of shipping, I’ll leave it to be sent with the organ to Beaverton, Oregon, so I won’t have it before Easter.
Well, it will be good to get back to the land of luxurious living once more. (Looks as if I’ll have to learn English again!) I’m about fed up with cold water washing and no private bath and mostly bread and potatoes at meal. The wide open spaces of the West will be also welcome, to say nothing of warmer weather.