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Arlington Va.
9 March 1947

Dear Doris:
          
It is time for the usual weekly letter & there is the usual lack of worthwhile material, but, like Mrs. Roosevelt with her daily column, I shall try to do my best. The weather might do for a starter. [[strikethrough]] It [[/strikethrough]] The weather man predicted 5 inches of snow for Sat. and it began in a businesslike way when I set off for the library, but in an hour or two it changed its mind & came out Sunny instead. This morning's paper states that the snow missed us by only 25 miles, and that Richmond got 7 inches. There is still a rumor of snow on Wed.
   
Today has been bright but cold. I looked at the sun once or twice thru a film but couldn't see any sunspot. We drove to Ballston and got 5 buckets of dirt for the garden and then went on to the top of the hill and down
it, where we used to pick blackberries, and out to [[strikethrough]] Wash.[[/strikethrough]] Wilson Blvd. The whole place, except the blackberry hillside, is now thickly built up, even down toward the foot of the hill by the brook, and the houses push far back on the east side of the road. A lot of new & very cheaply-built-looking ones are going up in the hinterland
  
One little bunch of yellow crocus is in bloom in our front yard. We had some flowers in the same cluster of bulbs before the last snow. A redbird has
just lit on the grapevine and flown up out of sight. Mother heard a Robin around the house Friday, but I didn't. No sign of Grackles yet.
   
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