Dear Daddy – The Farm Letters

Dear Daddy,

Thanks a lot for the paper dolls. I gave 4 of them to John but he didn’t want 2 of em so I kept them. We just went to see if there were any cucumbers we found two but on the way home we were running so fast that John stumbled and fell he didn’t get hurt but he lost a cucumber so I guess the squirrels can have cucumber pickles if they want to bother to do it.

I made a scare crow out of your old coat and John’s cap and a sugar sack stuffed with grass it sure scares Mitzi so it ought to scare the crows she barks and barks at it. we have had three messes of corn and are going to have another today. yesterday the top of the hay stack blew off and

Roods are going to fix it today well this is all so love from Ruth

PS Mitzi sure liked the good food.

PS She looks more like a bulldog all the time

Dear Daddy,

how are you I am fine we got home without having to go in low any time up the hill we ate lunch outside little falls. We got home 5 minits after 4. on the way we guest what time we wood get home John said 3 o’clock Mother said 4 and I said 2 o’clock so you see the time came within 5 minits of the time Mother thought we would get home the kittens are over 1/2 of a foot long John and I havent been able to cach ether of them yet. there house is under the old barn all safe and sound. the toemaytoes and the watetermelons and the sqwash all have fruit on them about the size of a silver dollar. the cucumbers have fruit of about 4 inches long.the beans have some of them gone to seed and the same with the peas. our corn has a lot of ears on it and we can eat it in a few days How do you like the picher on the front of this? I did not use a pensel on any of it you should have seen Mitzi when we let her out of the car she jumpt and ran all over us and the farm we set the little round tabal up but we coulden’t find the screws. Do you remember where you put them? This morning I tried to cach the kittens but they ran to fast.well I guess this is all the news so lots and lots of love from Ruth. P S.this morning coming home from getting the milk I found a Ruster fesent’s tail feather it was black yellow brown and tan I gave it to John

love from Ruth

Dear Daddy;

How are you? I am fine, well I am writing this letter while I have a few minutes to spare out of my job dispaching to Captain John D Linsley. you see I am the Captain’s dispacher in a war between the Germans and the Americans.

Yesterday I found some flowers as yellow as buttercup but I don’t know the name of them. I don’t use the house by the pump anymore now because it is raining most of the time and it leaks in too much. Today two purple iris came out. The mother cat is going to get kittens now I think in a few days. Yesterday it rained and hailed and the wind blew so hard I thought it should blow some trees down for sure, and it did the same thing again today. This after-noon after John and I had come in from playing a little outside the dog got her two front feet on the running board and tried to bite the rope that held it up, she sure looked cute. John and I would tie a string to our feet and the dog would run after it back and forth for the longest time. The leaves on the trees are all coming out now. the crops are coming up fine now.

We fixst a bed for the old kitty in the wood shed where it is nice and dry for her. last night when we went to see how the kitty was there was half a foot of water on the wood shed floor. This afternoon when I looked at the furniture polish on the top it was all liquid and an the bottom it was just wax it was because it had been standing so long. I use bluing for ink in my office it works almost better than the real ink does. I hammered a nail in the wall and put an empty spool on it to put string on it sure is handy. today when we put the canvas on the car we pretended it was a sail on a ship and the wind was blowing so that it was hard as a real sail to put on, This afternoon I am going too sew the rips and tears in the canvas so it won’t leak. Please send us some more paper we are completely out of it. this morning I made both beds and swept the floor for mother because she was washing. This afternoon it started to rain and we just got the clothes in on time or they would have been soaked.

Just a little while ago John was trying to get the door open and the door had soaked so much rain it was real hard to open. just a minute ago the dog looked at herself in John’s window and saw herself in the glass and Boy O Boy did she bark and growl at herself, and the other night she saw Jenson’s go by and she barked and groweld and woofed for about 5 minutes afterwards, well I guess I’ll stop now or there wont be room for mother.

love from Ruth and Mitzi

(this morning)

PS. yesterday John got too close to mother and mother smashed into him and skinned the end of his nose. This morning I saw it and thought it was blackberry jam because we had bought some Sunday when we went to Dorset. But when mother touched it John said it hurt and then thay remembered what had happened yesterday and it was all right after that. Mother is not writing today so I am writing a real long one .How do like my long letter?

Dear Daddy;

I think it will rain today, but am not sure. This morning while I was eating my tooth came out and this morning when John came home with the milk the dog barked at him. Yesterday coming home from town Mother dident go in low but once and that was at the corner. She got up the big hill on high. when we got home the dog looked around for you she looked in the car and in the house and

in our houses and everywhere. well I gess this is all the news.

love from Ruth

PS. remember to send the cloth

Dear Daddy-

It is a clowdy day but it isn’t raining. Gee but I am sorry I coudent send you a may basket befor so you would get it today but I’m sending it today. well I guess there wont be many flowers out to-day. I maid a may basket for mother and one for John. The cabages are about 1 inch high. I planted my garden yesterday. well I have to mail this now so love and lots and lots of kisses from Ruth.

PS if you can please send me 1 roll of each these collers of crape paper pink blue yellow. you don’t have to get them if they cost over 10 cents.