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7. Aug 1949.

Dear Folks:

We have had a 10 min. shower - the ground is baked hard. All my trees are alive. I watered a few, but water is very scarce so everyone is warned to save. Have put new screening on. Three other screens need it badly too. Will wait till you come for screening. Shall start painting blinds this week. Have been swabbing floors, etc. the past 2 days. Think the rat has departed, but the back room was a mess from his ravages. Mrs B. too scared to go out there, let alone cleaning it up. The apples are ripe on the tree out back and we had enough to make a dish of apple sauce. Pears should be picked soon, maybe I can manage to do the lower branches. All the grass in the orchard brown as in California, not a spear of green.

D.H.B.