handwritten letter postmarked December 7, 1936

2-6-36
In Bed
9:49 PM

Dear Bet, 
    Real Oregon weather is here.  Plenty of warm wind and rain.  I am thankful we got moved before it started in in earnest.  There are still two or three loads of stuff in back of the old shop.  I moved the wood this morning but didn't get the roof moved over to keep it dry.
   Soon after eleven I went over to Gleason's old mill and the electrician (Albert Carlson) and I worked till three changing a gasoline pump for them.  Dinner tasted very good.
    To keep from going to church this evening I made up a coil and installed it in Harold's Barber Shop. Arrived home here at nine and read a short story in the Young Peoples "The Owl Call" I think was the name of it.
     Marvin and I took in the Pie Social at Salt Lake School House Friday night.  I did not get through work very early but we got there in time to buy a pie.  Marvin got a Dorothy Sherman (Eclos Pollock's girlfriend) and I got Olah Powell (about ten years old I imagine).  More fun.  Well we took Dorothy and Wanda Powell (a sister to the one I ate with).  One lives about a half mile south and the other about a half a mile north of the Salt Lake School House.  More fun.  Oh, yes, Dean Stevens was out there so we had the pleasure of bringing him home.
    What rank does Juanita Patton belong to - Blondes or Brunettes.
    Dad spends most of the day sitting up.  He thinks he'll be at the shop some next week.
                                  Lee