Blooming Valley May 16^th/.86

 

Dear Sister one and all,

                                    I have just discovered that I have began to write on the last page in stead of the first but I guess that you can manage to read it just the same so I will go on I got your postal card also the word you sent by Baugher and John Weggant. Wayne thought when Pa was there that he Pa had rather not trade and urged me to not say any thing more about it so we had given up having another cow. But I would gladly trade now if Wayne would go after the cow but he says he wont so that ends it I cant drive her here, and if he dont / care enough about our welfar to go for her why we will have to do without her and I dont want her if he feels that way I think it is the last effort that I shall make in that direction. Our cow has been dry a month she will be fresh now in about two weeks. There is one thing sure if I dont have the cow I wont have the extra work to do and as it is I have all to do that I am able to do. Pa told me if you came home and the roads got good he would bring you out so I was not so anxious to go till I saw in the paper that you were sick and now I do not expect to go out there this summer. Would like to see you ever so much. But I have done a good share of the visiting so you must all visit me this summer. / Hope you will soon be better so you can come out When did you come home. I would have liked to have seen Jim’s. Why did not they come out. Tel Beck when you see her that I expect to be gray haired when I see her again. How do you think Mart is in comparison to the way he was when you left last fall. I am sorry to hear that Em’s lungs are troubling her. Tel Hattie to write she has not written to me this spring. I did not say any thing to Mary C. about making you a dress for she expects to be confined the 20 of this month. But she told Cora M^cC that she would cut and fit a dress for her the middle of June so it is probable that she will still be able to do it in time for you.

 

I have my house cleaning done, yard cleaned, soap made and garden made now all I have to / do is to keep the thing running but that is the next thing I will veal our calf so I wont have any milk work to do till July. I guess this is as much as you will be able to read I made the feather edge trimming for Lyd but guess I will never get a chance to send it to her. There was a concert at M.E.C. last night Given by S. J. Culp and band from Saegertown The band played in the street and it was just splendid.

 

Good by Wit Write if we cant visit we can write

                                                                                    Eva.

 

Tuesday after dinner. I have washed and baked a cake and have got bread in the oven and have got my dinner work to do, and two men for supper. we are planting corn to day, so you see that I am too busy to write much. We had a hard frost here Sunday night. E.H.W.

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