2941 Summit
Spokane
May 13, 1932
Dear Bertha,
Just a note to let you know that we are well and busy and that I have just received a check from Helena Vearey for seventy-five dollars ($75.00), so it is at your order at any time.
Little Martha has been quite sick, in a peculiar way. They suppose she fell and hurt her knee, anyway, it became very badly infected before they knew what was wrong. She was in the hospital for some little time with drainage tubes in the knee, and, of course, great pain and fever for a time. She is getting along now, has been home for a week. I think Dairy Cooper is still in the hospital will be sometime longer, I believe, but the bone is heading, and _____ says show that she broke loose some adhesions in the knee so that it will probably be better than it has been for a long time.
I wonder how things are going with you. Are there any improvements? I wish you were here. It is “lilac time,” and never were there more or finer blooms. The honeysuckle is just beginning to open and I think there must have been at least two hundred of the early purple and white iris out today.
It keeps everybody on the place busy trying to keep up with the grass and weeds, but we can’t do it. However, we accomplished something and et a spot in the house cleaned between times.
Isabel is having a picnic on Sunday, to which Sally is supposed to go, and she is not a bit enthusiastic, says she would rather run the lawn mower. I don’t know where they are going and if there is a person except _____ under fifty it will be the two _____ and they were not sure they would be able to go.
Sally had no excuse ready so she will have to go, unless it rains or something. We almost had a dust storm today, hard wind but not much dust. Yesterday was quite a summer day, warm even at bedtime, but it was the only evening we have had which was warm.
We are having to begin watering the grass. It is green how soon it gets dry. Well, I guess there is not much more to write about and it is getting a bit chilly and too late to start a fire. So, I am going to bed.
Love to all,
Mamma