Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

tree. [There was a Chinese elm growing in the patio.
with the apricot that is there now.]
We replaced
August 16, 1960 8 AM
Already the smell of pmon fIres, green chile and tortillas coo' .
is everywhere. Don't feel too chipper, so will use that as an excuse not
throw mud, though I have some soaking.
take it easy.
August 17, 1960
The furnace arrived today;
finish installing it tomorrow. The
problem, it seems, is getting the gas
hooked up and passed by building
commissioner. It all gets so complicated.
The hole we made in the wall
Will work at the windows
isn't large enough, so will have to
put the furnace in the front room in
a comer and build a partition. Hope
it doesn't look too bad. [We had
thought we'd put the furnace
outside in the wall south of the
door into the sala, and that s why we dug a big indentation. We 1f!.J
because we thought it would look nice to have something there. fe,
ago in Mexico we got the ceramic stove that s there now.]
The older brother
to the kids across the street is home. He
been dishonorably discharged from the Marines and is a mean dev.
beating the children, throwing rocks at the dog. It isn't the happy, lau,
group it usually is. They all wish he'd leave. I don't dare get invol
especially with Boris gone. An older sister, who disappeared a m
ago, writes from Long Beach that she's married to a sailor; she's.
"He's
so nice, he bought me a TV," she said.
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