Bus Log: July 7, 1971--Green stuff and black stuff

Here are our accounts after ten days on the road.

Checking account: $585.00

Savings:                     500.00

Cash:                             78.00

Expenditures:

Bus tune-up                 43.07

Fuel, repair                 46.28

Food, ice                      74.81

Laundry                         2.10

Entertainment

 (inc. allowances)      16.80

Medical                       21.00

Miscellaneous

 (inc. household)       30.12

That black stuff that sometimes gets all over the bottom of pans or on the inside of the potbelly stove door makes a good stove black. Iron stoves and lanterns rust and lose their luster, so they need an occasional polishing. You squeeze the oil from an orange or a lemon and wipe the black pot with it. After you do the stove, you can polish dark furniture, but test it before light-colored fabric comes near it. You could add a drop of kerosene, but you'd have to let it dry before using the stove. Finally, the polishing cloth makes a good fire starter.