Dearest Ellen,
How do you like my new letter paper? I just ran out of Dick's so I guess I will have to buy some for myself. I hunted all over the place for some other but couldn't find any except some of Doris's which is lavender and with a white border, cute eh? I decided it would be better to use some office stationary.
Well I expect to drive up Friday afternoon, July 14. I don't think I can get away from here until 4 or 5 o'clock and it will take 8 or 9 hours to make it so I don't suppose I will get there much before 1 or 2 in the morning. If that's the case I wouldn't want to barge in on you so early so I will crawl in at Grandma's and see you early Saturday morn say around 8:30 or 9:00. If I should perchance, be able to get away from here right after dinner at noon and arrive in Madison by 10 or 10:30, I might call you up and say, hello. Aunt Laura is going to ride with me as far as Kankakee and from there I will be alone. Doris and Miriam can't come at this time. Mother could spare both anyway and right now with Aunt Laura gone, they are needed to sell at the market.
You should see our roses in bloom now! We have about 80 varieties all grouped together just south of the market and they are all blooming profusely. We have to water them nearly every day because the hot sun dries them with the pot sticking up in the air. We have been selling a few every day but we still have over a thousand. We had over 10,000 to start with and we potted over 3,000. Today I planted a dozen along with $30 worth of evergreens. Les and two of the boys started work on a $100 job which they will finish tomorrow. Les finished the second pool yesterday and we will probably plant it tomorrow or Friday. We have been pretty busy considering this is our slack season. We have 5 men working besides 5 of us counting Lloyd, Jr. He does a lot of the watering and works on the golf course. He thinks he works awfully hard and I suppose he does for a boy his age but he likes to go swimming or playing golf with the neighbor boys. He takes them on for a nickle a hole and usually wins all their spending money. He lets them win enough to keep them interested. They get tired of it after a while.
Monday and Tuesday, Dick and I went around town trying to sell some roses and stuff. We took our sprayer along and got a couple jobs spraying for worms on the evergreens. Monday I got a lead for a job which will probably amount to $50 or better. Tuesday I booked the $30 job which we planted today. If we can do that good every week during the summer it will be real good. When fall business starts, though, along in September, we should do nearly 3 times that much a week.
Enough about my work. The golf course has been doing pretty good. We had a big crowd Sat and Sun night which makes us feel good. We have advertised it in a couple papers and hope to do better. When it is hot in town it is nearly always cool out here with a good breeze as soon as the sun goes down. The past couple days haven't been so hot which is certainly a relief. It certainly did get hot last week. It was 96 in the shade and you can guess what it was in the sun, and I was helping mix concrete!! But right now we are having a relief period. The paper says it is only supposed to go to 90 tomorrow.
You should see "Ching" now!! He is growing more and more and just as playful. He seems to get more independent every day. We have a lot of fun playing with him, too.
Today was 3 cent day at Riverside, our amusement park and Lloyd and some of the kids went. You can ride on any of the things for 3 cents. I just had to go get him and his bicycle because he lost the key to his lock. He had a lot of fun but couldn't ride home.
Well, I'll get there soon after this letter does so I guess I'll have to tell you the rest. I'm expecting to bring you back with me for a visit here so your excuses better be good. I know you're just dying to come and I'm dying to have you so??? You know there is no better place for a vacation than good old Indiana especially for a native Wisconsinite. We have thousands of beautiful places, ideal picnic spots, and a thousand and one different things to do and places to see. And then too, I'm here. When I'm here and your there, neither of us can have much fun, but when your here with me, boy what fun we can have!!!
I'll be seeing you soon.
Lots of love,
Larry
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