Shoe return

On Thursday December 7, 1916 Bonnie Elmore wrote: Arose at 7:30. Mary made a fire. I got to office at 8:45. Ordered diaries for 1917. Also calendars. Read book on "Panama Canal". Took Mary's shoes back to store. Aunt Annah came down after supper. I rolled Norman up to see Mr. Raines. I read "Pictorial Review". Came home at 8:30. Read paper at 9 p.m. Today is widely known as Pearl Harbor Remembrance day. To put things in perspective, Pearl Harbor was 68 years ago and in 1916 they would not have even known what you were talking about as that day, that was to "live in infamy" was still 25 years away. So we are dealing with 93 years ago here if my math serves me correctly, which often it does not. Yesterday I told you that I would never think of buying shoes for my wife without her along, well guess what Bonnie had to take those shoes back to the store. Wrong color? Wrong size? Too much money? I guess we will never know. Good to know the calendars and diaries have been ordered for the new year. The new desk calendars at my office have been handed out and other calendars are also being ordered. Bonnie still seems to be the prolific reader. I don't read that much, but I may try to get back to a book tonight about Washington's Crossing of the Delaware during the Revolutionary war. Again, that interest comes from the Clingenpeel and Meyerhoeffer families whose ancestors were Hessian soldiers in that same war. Bonnie didn't mention a haircut or a shave today, but I am headed for a haircut from my wife. It doesn't take as long as it used too. :)