Shucks! I thought I was posting this letter in the correct order. Actually the second page is the first page of the letter. Dad would sure get discouraged about farming. I was so homesick that first summer away from home in 1953 that, if Dwight and Velna hadn't still been in Laramie, I think I would have dried up and blown away. Fortunately, it got better in time, but home was always a wonderful, safe haven to me. We were aware of the financial struggles over the years, but it seemed like we always eked through.
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Dad's letters were few and far between. Some years really were discouraging, but somehow Mother and Dad made it work. I suspect that lesson of survival has been valuable for all of us.
Letters like this help us to understand.
I was sure that Dwight would rise to the occasion, with the description of moving the animals, partciularly the pigs!
Elizabeth's comment about moving the pigs does bring back quite a memory for me. When it would come time to move the pigs, Dad would come and get me to help. I was never quite sure if it was because he thought I could charm the pigs (what a compliment!), which is what he would claim, or because if I was around, he didn't lose his temper quite as bad. Funny memory.
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