Entry 11
In which it is evident Ruth was not as invested in the argument as was Matt. No photos today.
[In Ruth's hand in red ink as commented upon later]
Lake Munsel
Friday July 31, 1931
Florence Ore.
Breakfast – bacon, eggs, pancakes blackberries and cocoa.
We intend to start on for Heceta point as soon as our washing dries.
Matt is having a lovely time laughing at what he thinks is my lack of reason.
This has been a delightful camp. We get our drinking water from the pump on the owners back porch. There are cottages for rent but we have stuck to our tent under the trees.
Mr and Mrs Basford have 160 acre homestead here. There are three pretty lakes among the wooded snad hills. Yesterday afternoon we took a trail around the sand dunes and thru the woods to visit the other lakes and to pick black berries.
Yesterday Mr Basford took me to town to buy supplies and a fishing lisence [sic]. Matt and I caught one nice bass. I tried again in the evening but was unsuccessful.
There was a heavy mist over everything this morning so we got up early and went down by the bathing house for a bath. It surely felt good to clean up and change clothes.
[the rest is in pencil]
These are red letter days but that is not the reason for the red ink. We lost one fountain pen and the second one had poor ink and rand dry. [which of course does not explain where the red ink came from]
This has been a lazy day – have done nothing new. But Mrs Basford took us to town where we leared our films had been found and sent on to Portland. We bought supplies and tried to find the Rural Delivery postman to arrange for a ride to Hecketa [she continues to experiment with the spelling of this locale] Point on Yahats. The Ford Garage took our message to have the Postman pick us up. The Garage people were also very nice about cashing a traveler's check.
Cottages here went for $8.00 per week or $1.50 per night. G. C. Basford Florence Ore. on Lake Munsel.
[The address apparently provided as a plug for Mr Basford to future readers of the journal, as seemingly is the following menu]
Breakfast – Sliced peach or pear
Blackberries
Bacon, eggs, pancakes, cocoa
Dinner – Potato and onion soup with milk
Canned Baked Beans
Rye bread and butter.
Sliced peach with cream or pear
Supper – T. bone steak, whole wheat bread
Lettuce & fresh crab salad – sandwich spread dressing [mayonnaise?]
Hot cocoa.
Pears in between times
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