Perhaps Japan's tragedy is a wake up call to everyone who
is using nuclear power. The rest of the world needs to make
sure that the facilities they have are as safe as possible.
My personal opinion is that anything that has such a potential for devastation should not be in use. I realize
that this is a reactionary and old fashioned view.

Meanwhile, we have made a donation and are trying not to
brood about it since we have done all we can.

We spent yesterday in a desperate search for the hardware
to put the blades back on the ceiling fans on the porch. Ted took them
off and he remembered that he put them in his studio. I
remembered quite differently that they were in a grey plastic bag and I had put them inside a cabinet in the living room. When they disappeared, I was distraught and
kept asking Ted if he had taken them. He replied, "Certainly not." Yesterday we mounted a serious
search. Ted found them in the studio. They were in a zip
lock bag. The reason that he had taken the blades off was
that the fans were new and expensive and the blades were
wooden and he put the screws in a zip lock bag so he could see them. Both of our memories were accurate, just very different. You can't imagine how relieved we both were when
he found them. I knew when he was dismanteling the fans
last fall that it would probably mean trouble to seperate
the fan blades from the hardware.

We watched an old movie, "It Happened One Night" with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. It was meant to be a
light romantic comedy but since it was made in l934, it
gave one a vivid look at the depression era. Motel rooms
were 2.00 a night and didn't have private baths. A hungry woman passed out on the bus and Claudette Colbert gave her
child all of the money they had. The air planes in the
movie were archaic. Watch it if you can get the old original movie. I heard someplace that they were going to
re-make it.

As a finale, I cut my hair and it was a success.