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ps Louies wife enquired after you + asked about the baby. she would have been a better woman than the one you chose at that time. Ma

Stoughton May 8th 1932.

Dear Doris

I guess this is the beginning of the annual May storm, rain a little, then clear + then some more rain, with the wind in the North + then in the East it began yesterday.

I am out doors most of the time. puttering over any flowers there is one kind I think you mentioned it before mine had come out. its a wider leaf + a stock runs up + then one + then on the end are a cluster of small white bill like flowers, there seems to be quite a few of these plants that I never saw before. I have a dozen of the darwin tulips that are in bloom also.

I am mixing some coal ashes on my beds to offset the hard soil + also its a fertilizer I find. I mean to go over to get some barn water for some of my plants I find there is some once there.

I went down to Louie Dykemans last night + he came up this forenoon to talk over the painting of the old place + he said he thought that two coats of paint would not be any too much + he thought the blinds he could do for a reasonable price. as near as he could tell he could make himself clear for less than two hundred $180 or so. the blinds would add much to the looks he said the blinds he could do for eight dollars.