Aug. 6: "While on way with Lettie a copter near us started up and just missed the telephone wires."
Aug. 8: "After lunch came Ralph with Ralph Jr., ask me if I wanted to go for ride. I went with them to San Marcos, picked up Ralph’s father and then Ralph drove to Escondido and several other places, then brot me home and left Ralph Junior here to play dominoes. Came back about 5 for him and said would be back to play games this evening. Jr. and I walked to the lagoon also. Ralph Jr. came back as I was eating last bite of supper….Junior has grown tall since I had last seen him. He is especially interested in Art. He gave me a sea? lion?."
Aug. 17: "(Julia) came for me just after noon and The President invited her and wanted we eat there. It was delicious. We left after 1 while the meeting was going on. I just got set down and started my reading when here came man from Beltone and tested my hearing and agreed that I have very little to work on.'
Aug. 20: "This morning found a lost book belonging to Esther and Ralph so didn’t get much exercise."
Aug. 24: "Read a book thru — have now found the three books belonging to the Nelsons."
Aug. 25: "Man from “Beltone” came again today to try something else but nothing helps what I already have so I guess he will consider me a hopeless case."
Aug. 26: "Ralph came at dinnertime just after 6 and had dinner with us. Julia went to party at Grace Brassington's."
Aug. 27: "Letter from Gibsons in Ft. Bragg. Was raining up there."
Aug. 28: "Julia left for Sierra Madre after lunch. Expect her back Wednesday."
Aug. 29: "Several checker games with Lettie — she won them all….Now it is bedtime. I miss Julia."
Aug. 30: "Expecting Julia home any time. Had a nap 2:30 to 3. Julia arrived home before 6 PM."
Aug. 31: "Chaplin Nelson called on us this afternoon. Looking for something found — shoebox of snapshots that brot back many memories of the past when my family was growing up."
