Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

wall in front. [Boris built the stone wallfrom river rock.) Adolfo comes
back to finish the front and patio walls [ofthefront building].
Last night a neighbor's cousin was here-red hair and freckles.
Has been in the pen for rape. Wife left him. Has another. He is tough, but
wiry, and has been run over by a tractor. He and his brother played guitars
and sang. Most ofthe neighborhood children wandered in. We had a fire
in the fireplace and we furnished beer. It was wonderful. Not the beerneither
of us drink the stuff Mau-Mau loved it---cha-chaing and olt~ing,
dancing and yelling.
Frontfacade 518 Alto Street November 1958
July 15, 1960
The tractor with the shovel and dump truck did arrive-at 11
o'clock instead of6. Worked to 12:30. Won't be back until this evening
or tomorrow. Siempre manana. Wish I could relax and be that way too.
Maybe in live long enough. [At eighty years old, I still haven ~changed
a lot.} Boris is busy on the gate posts. Hopes to have shovel [on tractor)
push them in place. Hope it works; they must weigh a half a ton.
[Those are the huge posts on either side of the gate.}
Can hardly wait to start fixing and planting the patio. As soon as it
is leveled off am going to get manure and peat moss to work into the beds.
Filemon gave me a beautiful turtle. Was going to keep it for the patio; but
since I discovered it is herbaceous, I'm not so sure.
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