My Dear Peggy Girl,
How I wish I could be up there with you folks today. Jack and I are both going to work night runs. Mine is driving on Selby, and I suppose we will be off again tomorrow. If we are, we’re going fishing. We would go wild staying shut up in this room and as it don’t cost anything except a little gasoline we are better off out in the country.
Last night when I got home Jack had a big dish of macaroni, crackers and cheese baked for supper and we had sliced tomatoes for desert. It all tasted good as I had my dinner at about 11 o’clock and supper at 7:15. We had Wheaties and toast for breakfast today and the rest of the macaroni for dinner. I have got Jack to let his mustache grow and it’s about a week old now and it looks good. He says it’s the first time he has ever wore one. I bought a Sunday Tribune today and will send it along with my clothes tomorrow. My razor works just fine since it was fixed.
Say if you can find a couple of mouse traps handy send them in the next package for we have a mouse here, he got in the closet and the day-bed. I cannot find any place where he did any damage but he left his mark.
It’s cloudy here this afternoon and I hope we get rain as it’s awfully dry. Fred said they could hardly plow out at his brother’s place. They put new blades on the plow and are using 6 horses on the gang in order to turn it over. Have you seen much plowing done up there? I believe we should rent the place back to Mr. Rood if we can and get it plowed this fall so we can get a better start on next year. What do you think about it? And If I get up soon I want to see about the garden and berry bushes.
Well I guess this is about all the news. Have the children write. So wishing you all lots of love I will close, Daddy
I am mailing this at the main P.O. at 4:30 PM on Sunday.