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in advance. I must buy up some bacon. Eggs are also scarce. Everything is getting scarce, doggone it. I bet next winter we shall have a hard time all around.
Doris has been knitting pretty steadily this afternoon. She has been over at Mabel's. Mabel's mother is still un-able to be on her feet any and M. does all the work in a provokingly leisurely manner.
I have cut out a skirt from a remnant that I brought up to make. Ma can do the sewing & stitching. I the cutting out and fitting together.
There is a flock of grackles that goes to roost every night out in the pines (I think) by Toomey's or Welch's. They go