Ft. Collins, Colo.
Friday A.M. May 20” 1932
Dear Archie and Mable.
Your letter of Wednesday on
it was mailed from Natoma on Wednesday. Don’t know when you did write it for it
had no date. Don’t understand what you mean about my not answering all your and
Mabels letters right away as soon as I get them. For I am anxious to get
letters from home so I answer them at once. Yours is the first one I have had
from home this week and if I don’t get one this afternoon I won’t get one
before Monday for they always come in the afternoon from home and the mailman
does not come Saturday afternoons and after one has lived 54 years in one place
that is his home and he wants to hear from that home and the folks. There could
be no one that that me better than Bob and Mattie but Bob works night and does
not get up until noon and he is always working in the afternoon fixing up the
place and he is making it look nice. There was a barn when they bought it and
last fall he tore it down there was a lot of good lumber in it and he put up a
building 30 +40 made a garage to hold his cars and there finished off two rooms
in it for sleeping rooms. He and Mattie sleep out there and I in the house. It
is better for him for there is no dnoise from the folks that live in the home.
We go out every Monday morning to the golf ground and he and Mttie play 9
holes. I go with them and I set in the car and road. Last Monday I played 3
holes done better than I expected for I had not played for 3 years. In 4 more
days the fishing season will open and then Bob will go fishing in the
afternoons and I will ride up in the (?) with him and take a book. He drives up
20 to 30 miles and sometimes more. We have been writing to Fred and Bess to
come out for a few days. For they have not seen them for 8 years. He has wrote
that he thinks he will come and if he does I will go back with him and stop and
visit the folks there for a while. I have not been feeling the best in the
world. They say the flu takes a long time to get over. I am in no pain but weak
just all gone. I take a walk every day. Walk down once a week to get shaved.
Once or twice a week to the Library most every day to the Post Office. I have
wrote a 175 letters and 40 cards since I have been here. You say you have been
having lives spells like John Meyer. I think Ruth wrote that Mr. Meyers had
been sick did not say what with but that he was better. How is Floyd Meyers.
Glad that Pat done will on his cattle. Tell Pat halo for me. You sure had god luck
getting coyotes what is the bounty on them. You don’t know what hard times back
there as they do in a big city for you get enough to eat and they don’t in the
city. Bob says there is from 25 to 75 men every night at the RR shop the RR
lets them ride in the box cars and sleep in them and they are on the go all the
time. They will go around the slices and get a better meat a few potatoes bread
& c and then cook it. You know in about all the streams in Colo there is a
little gold not much but now when so many are out of work they are panning out
gold. Bob and I see sometimes as many as 25 up in the Mts. They say sometimes
they get 2 or 3 dollars a day. Well I guess this is enough. Try and write me
again soon. With lots of love to you all I am
Grandfather
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