Dear Jim,
I hope you got home all right. We have been thinking of you all day. We were pretty lonesome but tried to keep busy so as not to mind it too much. We have just got home with the milk and a big bag of beans, and I left an order for another pail, butter, lard, bacon and a can of corn. I fixed those openings into the old house and I must have done a good job as we found only one miller in there tonight. Of course there was some sweeping to do. I painted the window frames and the East kitchen window and all the sills inside to keep from getting slivers in our hands. I am sewing the drapes into one curtain to hang at the foot of the bed. We can leave the rings on and stretch a wire across the room if we had the wire. What did you do with that old wire clothes line you found in the yard? That would be the thing to use.
I wish you could send me some white thread No.60 and the needle case. We all went to bed while it was still daylight last night and I got up and dressed at 6:15 A.M. I was awake a long time before that though. I wish you could be up here James. Fix that sewer right away, that gas is poisonous. We are all feeling fine.
Lots of love,
Martha