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Stoughton Nov 20th 1933

Dear Doris

Sunny all the forenoon & gray & snow feeling air. this after noon, she has just been down to punch on the heat. Pa has just eaten his after dinner lunch & we ours, she thinks a great deal of his tea afternoons I have just brought in from back yard a bag of shingles before a snow or rain, we lug those in before a snow so they will get used up first. I wrote to Lena this morning & it went out early. I got James to get me a bottle of Pa's oil. he always askes me if there is anything I want downtown. We had baked beans for dinner & then we go on to our pork again. she means to have a change when she can. she dressed to take a walk then changed her mind as she was tired, she kept busy the whole morning long doing up sash curtains & washing clothes that did not need to be washed. she says in cold weather her hand get ruff its [[it's]] the soap she uses. twice as much as theres [[there is]] any need of, she is too neat. but thats [[that's]] a good fault I suppose you would say. she might moderate it down to half & then be clean enough. no one is perfect though, but us