In the spirit of total honesty, I must confess that parts of this letter made my eyes cross and my head spin. Dart spent more than 4 out of 8 pages discussing the various merits of one shade of green paint over another, culminating in a carefully drawn table indicating his preferences in color, location, and degree of luster for each of nine different shades, listed by the color code of the manufacturer. To top it off, he suggests that Dot make a similar chart without consulting his to see how closely matched their preferences are. Yikes! I think we’ve covered that topic sufficiently, so let’s take a look at the rest of the letter.
For reasons he can’t quite name, the two letters he received from Dot today are his favorite in a long time. He’ll try to answer them later on in this letter.
The weather is windy and cold again, making him wish they were spending it together cuddled up under a big fluffy blanket. He’s feeling especially amorous tonight, and he’s sorry they live so gosh darned far apart.
I surmise that Dot was writing about bicycles and picnics recent;y. Although he hasn’t seen his bike in years, he knows just where it is. He has a small luggage rack on the rear that would work to hold a picnic basket. He knows his bike will need new tires, but it shouldn’t take much to make it usable again.
“You sure have us pegged, Dot. I mean our family. That habit of talking and not doing is one I want to get rid of. I know it annoys you, and it also annoys me when other people do it, so I need to stop doing it.”
Yes, he thinks her idea of buying furniture at auctions might work. There are a lot of people around Cleveland who have the same idea, but he and Dot might try their luck at that form of shopping.
He also agrees that they had some nice nights at Lake Sunapee last September. Except for some seasick nights aboard the Haggard, he’s never slept out in the open, but he likes her idea of sleeping on the porch when they’re at the cottage. “I hope we’ll be able to sleep together (Well, you know what I really mean) most any place we choose while we’re there. I think we will, if we’re in the mood that often, or that continually.”
He theorizes that the purpose of a honeymoon is so that a couple can get the experience and novelty of sex out of the way in private before they have to be doing in with other people near by.
Although he feels like writing about sex tonight, he must go to bed in order to get up for church in five hours. How he wishes they could go to bed together and caress each other. Would she prefer her back rub before or after?