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To Florence & family July 31st 1938 Sunday afternoon

Dear girl will try to ans your good letter recd yesterday ;morning was glad to hear you was all well I am feeling fairly well still don’t sleep much at night & I don’t seem to be nervious eather I never do sleep a bit till after 12 oclock & it will be after 3 in the morning before I drop off to sleep & I feel tired most all the time the people around here tells me I work too hard & the children the ones that come to see me tells me I work too much but I am living on a little farm & there is work to do & no one to do it but me I do more work then eny two men here on the ridge

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Well I cant be bothered about that I never get lonesome for I am so bissy all the time I don’t have time to get lonesome just practicly lived outdoors this summer that’s why ive stayed up & able to do what has to be done on a farm but I don’t keep house I manage to cook what I want to eat but I wash my dishes I never leave eny dirty dishes set & I am never bothered with flies & I havent got eny screen door for my kitchen I just keep the big door shut all the time got screens on my windows so I can have my windows raised to give me air when I am in the house well we have had 2 good rains in the last few days I was real glad to see the rain come for I have

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got quite a bit late stuff planted & it was beginning to need rain but it looks nice oh I will have plenty of stuff to eat that ive raised & ive got quite a lot of canned fruit more then I would eat in 2 or 3 years but I may have some ones to help me eat some of it this winter I am expecting them & looking forward & hoping they will come for I need some one here with me for I have sick spells sometimes nearly die & here all alone no one to do eny thing for me its pretty tuff if you happen to ask me but ive got by so far & I am still here I havent pieced but 2 quilt blocks this summer got Leroys quilt half pieced will finish it by & by it will be a scrap quilt I call it the triangle star its real pretty but awful tedious to piece

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& I never have filled your line star couldn’t get the material here that suited me so I am going send off an order to the Chicago mail order house & get what I want I order most every thing I need get good stuff get good materials for half what I would have to pay here for their old shody stuff oh I hate this little old town cant get nothing that’s worth while & it’s a railroad town to well I am glad you enjoyed your vacation sometimes I feel like I would like to take a short vacation of a day & one night I cant be away from home more then 24 hours at a time no one to feed & water them but last Christmas I shut them up in the hen house & put

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Feed & water in there enough to do them a week & I went to joplin [Missouri]  & I stayed a week & they were all right when I got back then last july I went to Oklahoma went on Monday & stayed till Thursday evening & I never even put feed in chicken yard their vesel was fill of water but it was empty when I got home of course they quit laying for about a week but otherwise they were all right but ive just a small bunch 18 9 hens & a rooster & 8 young chickens I set 70 eggs & only got 8 chicks but we had so much heavy thunder when I had my hens sitting the eggs all chickens in them but they were dead

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Yes I got a letter from georgie & she said she dident like Oregon but she said sandy said he was going to new mexico this fall but she dident say she was going with him her 2 boys is back in mo&#nbsp;[Missouri]. Mabe she intends to come back to mo to well dear I don’t remember whether I rote you a card or not to thank you for the box of oranges they were fine & I enjoyed them I am thanking you meny times I am so forgetful if I wait a week when I get a letter I will forget to ans it well I will stop as I have to go to the spring so hoping finds you all well I am as ever with love & best wishes from mother