1946 (Wednesday) – It started to rain about 12:30 a.m. and kept up until after nine o’clock, but the sun is now trying to peep out so we may get a parade after all.
It did stop raining, so I insisted on going to see the parade. Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) wasn’t a bit interested, but he tried to find a parking place somewhere near Liberty Park, but go wherever we would there was always someone a head of us and others still coming, finally he got disgusted and said he would take me downtown and if I wanted to get out and try and see it from the street alright, he was going home. I got out at the Center Theater, Third South and State Street and walked down to Main Street, crossed the street on the south side and crept up in the crowd, as near to the curb as possible, watching for every opening where I would squeeze in until I almost reached the curb, just about the 2nd row back. The parade had started, but I don’t think for long. It was very nice and I enjoyed the music, but soon it commenced to rain. I pulled my coat up closer around my shoulders and put on my gloves and stood there part of the time. I tried to edge under someone’s parasol, but wasn’t very successful. I seem to have a little stubborn streak, so that when I start a thing, I like to see it through to the end, so there I stood until the end, my hat was dripping wet.
I started along main street, thought I would go to a show. I had in mind one I wanted to see, but had forgotten just where it was, so stopped in the studio, and lo and behold, I had already seen it. I saw it again. I took off my hat and held it during the show, then put it on and went home, stopping to get some ice cream to take home with me. I saw a girl look at me, then the boy with her turned and took a look, I don’t see how they kept from laughing, for when I reached home and looked in the glass, oh boy, if you could have seen that hat, and my hair was stringing down all around. Was I a sight. I, afterwards, told Earl, seeing as he was a writer, he should write something, calling it “Mother Day the Parade”
Port (Porty Lewis Gabbitas) and family (Della Lunt; Ivy Joan, Gordon Lewis, Larry Lunt, Judith Ann and Ted Lunt Gabbitas) came in for a while. Poor Port and Della, they were both so tired that they went to sleep in their chairs. Della had been making apricot jam the night before and didn’t get to bed until two o’clock the night before. While Port work’s almost day and night all the time.
Loony Lunts and Company 