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PS I hope Betty has come to her appetite and is natural. you were feverish & I held you in my lap when you cut your eye & stomac [[?]]. Pa was out West it was a week & I worried all by my lonesome

Stoughton May 11th 1930

Dear Doris.

After roasting for three days, there were showers all around with a slight shower of rain for us & the wind got around in the NW & we are freezing. our fruit trees are all blossomed full, also the lilacs & cloves & flowerin almond & buttercup &+ dogwood. an old black crow yesterday morning early, swooped down onto the jays nest in the little pine tree & carried away all the eggs (no he didn't). he was acast off by Pa yelling "ho"! at him, but he got them wild, so they have forsaken their nest & they left five eggs in it, they build farther up in the top of the tree this year, so that crow could easily see it, as he sailed over the tree. A new tenant has moved into the house across the away yesterday, we dont know who they are yet. Friday the two Mrs Lamberts called on me,