Dear Ellen,
Well the Christmas tree sales are over and we now have plenty of time to relax. We sold more trees this year than the last two years. One good thing was that we cleaned up all the good trees we had. The years before we usually had a couple hundred trees left over to burn but this year we only have about 50 trees left and about half of them are on consignment and we don't have to pay for them. We all feel good about the way things sold. I myself sold over 50 dollars Saturday and averaged better than $30 each day of the week.
Our Chrismas surely has been a swell one. We worked until 10:30 Saturday night and then came home and had our presents. Some of us had to wrap a few after getting home so Santa didn't arrive until nearly 12:30. It was after 3 when we finished passing presents around and just as we were starting to pick up papers and things Betty, Lester's girl, and her folks arrived from Chicago. We fixed a lunch for them and didn't get to bed until nearly 4:30. Sunday morning we got up about 9 and left for South Bend about 11:30. There we met alot of relatives, attended my cousin's wedding, had several swell feeds and then came home. Just as we were leaving S.B. it began to snow, a wet snow that sticks to the road and windshield. Dad drove most of the way because he says he feels safer if he is driving. It took us an hour and a half longer to come home but we were lucky. We saw two cars in the ditch and once or twice we skidded a little but we arrived here safely. Yesterday we cleaned up our stand at Sears and carried home the few trees and wreaths we had left. Today we haven't done much only pick and clean 16 chickens and plant a big tree. Well I guess that gives a brief summary of what I have done these past few days.
Doris has just been in here tormenting me. She says to tell you "hello." We have been scraping all morning while picking the chickens. We nearly busted our little radio. She started to throw some water on me and as I jumped I hook the aerial and pulled it off the cabinet. It landed on the top and wrecked the box but it still plays so I guess it can be fixed. Les got a swell little radio from Betty and he was surely delighted. We all got a lot of things, several games and things. I got three shirts, a fountain pen which won't write - look at the first of this letter, I tried to use it there. [the writing was very faint] I also got a pocket knife, several ties and even a tack hammer. My little brother Lloyd got me a hammer and Dick a jig saw. I don't know what for unless he wants to use them, what do you think?? All in all we had a dandy Christmas and everybody was pleased. I hope you had a swell one, too. Did you get a lot of nice things? I'll bet you did.
How is the weather up there? Have you got a lot of snow? We got about a inch here and the temperature dropped to nearly zero last night. Yesterday morning as we got out the wind was whistling around the house and we couldn't get the truck started. The Nash started ok but the truck had the oil frozen so it wouldn't even turn over when we pulled it. I guess it had too much water in the oil. We built a fire under it and after about 15 minutes we got it thawed out so it would run. Dick left the heater turned on in Grandma's Chev and we had to pull that to start it. We didn't get anything else done except start cars all morning.
Have you been skating yet? We haven't had much cold weather until yesterday and a few of the ponds we call lakes froze over. We may go skating tomorrow unless something turns up to prevent us. Usually there isn't much skating here all winter so we make use of all the opportunities we have. Once in a while there is enough snow to go tobaggoning too but that is not very often.
Well I guess I had better close. We expect to leave here Monday morning arriving there sometime around six if we can get through.
Love,
Larry
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