Sunday – July 16, 1944
Dear Folks,
I was pleased and just a little surprised to get a letter from you today. I thought that I had just about got my share of letters from you this week. But I am generally so rushed through the week that I have to almost rush through your letters and that takes part of the thrill out of reading them. You can bet that I made the enjoyment of reading this one last as long as possible. One of the reasons why I forget so much of the news that you mention is that I just have to go on to something else as soon as I have finished the letter and hardly even have time to think of what you have said.
I was sure glad to hear that you have had a little rain. It rained every once in a while here last week but it didn’t help the heat situation very much. Before the rain the temperature is just a little cooler but after the rain it just seems that the ground and wet clothing are steaming. The radio today is forecasting storms along the coast so I suppose we’ll have more rain before tomorrow.
I didn’t get up for breakfast this morning but I did get up in time for church. Last night and this morning I have been reading the S.S. papers that I received from you yesterday. I was about out of reading material so I have them about read through except for the continued story. And I expect to have that consumed before evening.
Oh yes. I forgot to thank you or Margaret or whoever is responsible for the picture. Although there is nothing outstanding about it, it is a very good picture of us all. I hope you can get hold of another one because I’d like to hang on to this one.
I’ve got K.P. tomorrow but except for the longer hours it can’t be much harder than the work we have been doing lately. So I don’t dread it as much as I do sometimes and I was sure happy that it came tomorrow instead of today. I’ll stop now and write a letter to Uncle Floyd’s and maybe by that time I’ll have thought of something more to say.
7:30PM
Well about all I have done this afternoon is finish reading the Sunday School papers and done some straightening up that I would ordinarily do in the morning if I were not on K.P.
I wonder what you did today. Hope you had a good time. Aunt Freda said she had invited you there and I wonder if you went. By the way, I think I’m going to have to send my watch back to Leo to fix right. It started losing about 20 minutes a day as soon as I got it and now it runs for 3 or 4 hours and stops. I’ll give it another day or two of watching & if it doesn’t straighten up he’s going to get a chance to make it right.
Here’s wishing you all the best wishes in the world.
Donald