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March 4, 1962

Dear Mother and Daddy,

All of your packages have arrived and are
very much appreciated. We are still trying to
decide on color on the Jay-less, but maybe if
they are open on Sat, we'll go up and look the
stuff over in the raw. Last weekend went by like
a shot, and we are a little behind schedule on
the kitchen and the bathroom. The living-room
sure looks a heck of a lot betterm though, in
spite of the few little details that remain unfinished.

The kids are happily ancitipating your visit,
and will have a lot to tell you since they started
nursury school on the 1st. It seems to be working
out very well, and as soon as they get to know
everyone, I think that they may prefer it to
coming home.

The Popular Science book arrived today and
we are giving it a thorough scrutiny. The big
furnityre items on our list are the desk-complex
and a coffee table, but there are a few other
little time consuming details in the road.

Over the Washington's Birthday holiday we
went to visit Jim's sister at Chinese Camp. We
really had a good time and the kids got a little
sample of farm life. Jim's 13 yr. old nephew
has a Future Farmers of America project with some
chickens and Pooh and Toot got to lift the warm
eggs out from under the hens. He has a fairly
tame one that he caught for them numerous times
and let them pet it. He let them herd them into
his chicken yard and taught them to do it gently.
There were a few aspects of the rooster's behavior
that they did not fully understand, but we
will fill in those details later. We went on a
hike with Pooh and the 4 older cousins and inspected
an ancient cemetery with stones dating
back as far as the 1880's, with inscriptions