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Stoughton Dec 1st 1933

Dear Doris

The wind has blown for tree [[three]] days now, our thanksgiving was a fine warm day. I was out poking around my garden & yard with a stick the leaves that had lodged there so the wind would blow them away which they did & by night it looked like the rest of the neighbors yards I went down to the hospital after two o'clock & she went to her daughters we were both away & Pa was here alone for over an hour & was lonesome I guess after supper around  half past four he went off to bed & I sat up here alone until after 7 o'clock then I also turned in & we were both asleep when she came home at 10 or little before. we had fresh pork & no turkey or foul [[fowl]] but plenty of good vegetables. & she brought me a nice apple & some grapes. they had a good time she said up to her daughters where they all were to gather. these holidays are not pleasant for any but the ones who have families to come home to one. so there are many of such I guess. I was glad Lena could go to Jimmies [[Jimmie's]] she always came home to us in the old days till our home