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Stoughton April 30th

Dear Doris

With us this has been a cold month with but very little rain, we are having many disaster fires all around us. well, I am happy to say, have so far escaped there although a fire would go pretty briskly in our backyard and full of bark and twigs. Pa has been using old "blondy" all the morning he is a good horse to do farm work very different from any horse we have had in that respect, I mean to have some vegetables grow this year wont it seem good we are going to plant cucumbers and sit out our tomatoes over to the other house but the other things will go over in our little plot Pa has worked all of his spare time gettin this new land into shape and its been no cinch not one