Mon 13 Mar 1922
Mary's Journal Entry
nice day worked around here & there fixed fence P.M. J. W. & I went to Escondido J. got lumber
Letter Sent Home
Fri. Thurs. 9 A.M. March 10 ‘22
Lost one day as you will see. J.P. said yes. he was going to town this week & as there is only one more day tho’t I would write this morn. I have a Jack & 2 cotton T- cooked ready to fry & potatoes (spuds out here) ready don’t know what else will come along bread & butter any way. oh it made me hungry when I read your letter boiled cab. & pigs feet yum yum can’t get cab enough to boil we have some now & then we like it a new way they all like it here. slice your cab. as for slaw put about 2 tables of fryings in spider & just a little water (if your vin. is very strong) that’s all & cover & let wilt. the cab. makes quite a little juice then when about half cooked add little vin. to make little sour & take up as soon as vin. hot. try some. onions good too. Oh it was fun & very exciting. the rabbit drive 21 of us men & boys besides dogs & tin cans. got 8 first run. 7 the next & 3 the last (18) that dad of yours had the good luck to get 6 & oh there was a lot run by. Whit (J. man) quits work 4:30, J. gets out his car, puts dad on radiator, he & I in front seat Whit in back seat with gun & we take W- home 1 1/2 mi. around road. last night they got 1 going & coming home pa got 1 then he got out & sat on trail & waited come home with 2 more. all JackR but 1 night before last he got 3, 2 J & 1 Cottontail. we eat cot. tails & Jacks but the Ginnies we don’t to many of them. now is when they want to get them. they just ruin the crops. they are going to drive again Sun. the only day they can get a crowd to gather. some farmers have rabbit proof fences thats where they try to drive them in but they know where the fences are believe me. well that’s enough rabbits but that is the only thing going (there are a big flock of “wild doves” (read this low they are protected here) but a nuisance just the same. they lit in a tree this morn. down by run & J. said to Pa go get a good mess. so he went & hid in bushes he would shoot the birds fly & come back again. then he would shoot again & away they would go & back again as long as he did not show himself. he let what ones he got lay when he tho’t he had enough he went out & picked up 10 (7 shots) so we will have more meat) they are fine had some before (7) it about keeps me busy dressing game its ome job. Well the men are done with rocks have grapes set have blasted some stumps but have more. Whit dug out one tree yes. has bees in maby get some honey. Uncle Will drives team every day (riding plow) he says he feels better already out here. well guess I do too I walked good 4 miles the “rabbit drive” & slept fine that night. Hope you all well & all rest.
Love to all. Mother
Fri. eve. 7 o’clock
Don’t know whether J will go to town in morn. or not it has been cold & cloudy all day & is raining a little now. well we had honey & hot bis. for supper they only got little honey say it took me all P.M. to dress game & must be looked over again I stopped long enough to make J a bee hat. I am enclosing a letter what a shame about Minnie poor girl I bet she is discouraged. don’t know when we will get back to Los A- we want to go to San Diego first & camp for a week or so & it is almost to cold yet better send letter there & if we leave here soon I write P- to hold them if not she forwards to me. Uncle W- got his field plowed have not had rain to amount to anything in two weeks. have you had much sleighing this winter & does your hired man stick yet. hope you like him & he stays. neighbors here are making garden tomatoes, planted J says if he had that & covered his up he believes he could have carried his over. Will says he found two when he first come & says they were good. glad you are so well supplyed with sewing machines if the good one gets running hard heat kerosene & give it injection warm K- foes wonders with gummy machine well guess we go to bed good night. raining
Sun. 3 P.M. well it did rain all day yes. sun shone about an hour from 4 to 5 P.M. then it rained again good 24 hrs. so J did not go to town oh but it was cold all day yes. we all sat around fire place & put on the wood toward eve it hailed good & smart when it let up pa went out & got some I ate it in Calif. this morn. the mts were white lower down than they have been all winter pa went & got ice not as thick as glass but thick enough to hold togather. bet Mrs. Parks tomatoe plants are sick. it will be to wet to work on ground for 3 or 4 days. glad Mrs. Capen is better bad luck for just moving in a new home. how about Bartz. wish I could hear Russell speak today. the rain hindered their rabbit drive pa & J went but they were the only ones so they come home on way they got a Jack & C.tail so had them to help skin & cut up we will soon be hopping around here eating so many rabbits. You never said whether you would like portiers or not I tho’t it would be some thing from Cal. & I think they are pretty. have not got mail in two days. if Gertrude S wants C- to have a pict. of their house she’ll send her (I wont) they had some & good ones to & said she was going to send them C.S- is not going to get me in any mix up if I know it (she used to be noted to mix up) (I have buttoned up) I am done. they certainly have a cute “bungalow” & Hollis enjoys fixing up painging &c if nothing happens will call on the before leaving Los A. paper full may get chance to write more before this goes to P.O.
Mother
Mon. 1 P.M.
Well here we are ready for town J, W & myself Pa is going to keep watch of cows they have been getting out they act just like N.Y. cows do when they once get out. you are well stocked with hogs at home I should say & as to that beaf if she don’t get fat till we get home I’ll help eat her. J is putting gas in car & I am south of house in sun & if he don’t come soon I’ll have to take my coat off. there is a circle around the sun. we are glad we are not in Los A- more fun on the farm. they have had 30 in. of water fall here a neighbor Mame Coan (?) has a water gage 2.20 in fell this last rain. so long car buzzing.
guess you & I stay abo’t the same glad you are well. these roads are ruff so is this writing will quit send mail to L.A. W- get Lock. paper oh but the ground is wet we’r 1/2 way to P.O.
so bye bye hope you all keep well. 7 letters going to post
[Enclosed with this letter was a letter of Feb 28, 1922, from Hattie]