Dec. 31, Sunday
About six or eight more inches of snow in the night – still snowing at midmorning but gradually it tapered off and the sun came out clear and strong –
I got up a little after nine – Bertha had been awake since five – and after breakfast she went upstairs to take a bath. I took this “opportunity” to clear off the porches, shovel out the street-end of the drive (where the plows had closed it in) and then backed the car out through the new snow. There was no difficulty.
Shortly after this Mrs. Neeb called to say that the evening service, and the party afterwards had to be called off as Pastor Neeb had a virus of some sort.
Planning to go out to Chestnut Lodge at late afternoon, we had a light lunch. Bertha then lay down for a nap, and I went to the studio, and mounted some more drawings. After that I came in for my nap –
When I got up B said Ed S. called to chat –
Then we got ready, and went to the Lodge about five o’clock, where, we had good steak dinners (preceded by shrimp cocktails).
Home then, and watched TV followed by Camfield.
I thought I would look once more at the Hi-Fi. I noticed a plug hanging down from above the main amplifier – but there were three empty sockets above it. Thinking I discovered the cause of the trouble, I called Art – but he said that was the stereo line, (not in use of course). He said it was probably a blown fuse, and suggested that we try that; but there might be a cause for the fuse having blown such as a defective tube – He told us to watch the tubes for arcing when we turned it on. (I asked him if they were having a party and he said they were).
After we quit cards, Bertha put up several wooden wall pieces that Cathie + Sally had sent (bowl like whatnot on the kitchen cabinet into which she put gourds, a letter holder by her desk, and a “primping” mirror on a shelf in the kitchen.
Charles Burchfield, Journals, December 31, 1961