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[[preprinted]] 64 [[/preprinted]] principal reason for my going was to get some ice cream. I'm not specially excited about the variety we get at the club. [[margin]] Oct 11, 1935 [[/margin]] Another do little or nothing day. After lunch Dick and I stretched out on the bed and he began to read me a chapter in "Principles of Insect Morphology" by Snodgrass, on Wings. I had previously tried to so some reading for myself but didnt get very far. This time I didnt do very well either as I fell asleep. I couldnt blame this on the medicine I had been taking because I hadn't taken any today. [[margin]] Oct 12-1935 [[/margin]] To-day was "Dia de la Raza" or Columbus Day -as you will. In most stores and so forth it was a half day holiday. This being Saturday I had to do my shopping for Sunday in the morning. This sounds as if I had really taken up housekeeping. Dick went on another long trip, and about 5:30 I was expecting him home, so I worried a little as it was getting dark - silly me. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] 65 [[/preprinted]] [[margin]] Oct 13, 1935 [[/margin]] Another Sunday. Mr Owrey came up to see us for a few minutes in the morning. I was busy cleaning shoes, getting ready to leave. He took us down in the back yard to show us a big almond tree, and as luck would have it Dick saw a small group of toadstools in which he found 3 Staphs. Mr Owrey found some larvae - which he thinks is Diptera - in a rotting almond, so he took a bag and gathered quite a bit of the fruit on the ground. He believes it may be a host to fruit fly. It rained most of the afternoon so we stayed pretty close to the house. [[margin]] Oct 14, 1935 Oct 15, 1935 [[/margin]] I wasnt feeling very well so I did little or nothing. [[margin]] Oct 16, 1935 [[/margin]] Day before we are to leave. I began straightening things out to pack. It never seems as if we unpack much, but at the end of a few weeks there is always a lot to put in a trunk. Dick did a lot of going back and forth to town. He's always good at doing all the errands. [[margin]] Oct 17, 1935 [[/margin]] We are to sail to-night at 10:30. Most of the day was spent packing. [[end page]]