Saturday night is super, super. I'm so glad that you can come down then instead of Friday. I shall be waiting for your call at 3 or thereabouts.
Do you know what we did last night?! Vee and I went out for a little athletic activity ourselves. We walked seven - yes, seven - miles and what's more we're not extra tired. Next time we will make it ten miles, and walk to town. Whether we do it or not is another story. More later.
See you Saturday my chicadee, -
till then - bon jour!
(I mean bon swer(?))
(You can see how much French I learned in my two years)
Dotty
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In case anyone is wondering about "calsomine":
If patches of peeling paint on a ceiling or flakes of paint chips littering the room is a familiar site in your old house, your ceiling likely has a past that includes calcimine paint. Used throughout the 19th and into the early third of the 20th century, calcimine paint was a very popular and economical solution to give interior surfaces a fresh coating. Also referred to as kalsomine or distemper paint, it was a dried calcium carbonate product that, mixed with water and sometimes pigments and glue, formed an opaque, easy to use and fast-drying coating for walls and ceilings. These were the days of heating with coal and wood stoves, so walls and ceilings stained with soot quickly and calcimine was a quick and inexpensive cover-up during spring cleaning. Another aspect of its appeal is that it could be used immediately over new plaster as a coating. The plasters used during these times took anywhere from 30-60 days to fully "season" to the point that the PH-levels in the plaster compound would accept oil-based paint. Otherwise, the paint would become blotchy, blister and peel off as the curing plaster reacted with the oils in the paint. So calcimine provided a soft look to the stark plaster surface, and allowed builders and homeowners to "finish" their project immediately.
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