Aurora - February 28, 1920
Mr. & Mrs. A. F. Moshberger
My Friends,
It seems good to hear someone say Halo! or Something. I have seen but few visitors these last two months. I am afraid that I shall lose my power to articulate, at least I am not having much practice.
I lost all of my cats during the very cold spell - am glad of it. They were a nuisance. Now, I am taking care of two young poulettes. They will be more renumerative for they are commensing to lay. I told them a few days ago that if they didn't lay me some eggs that I would ring their necks, so I think, likely, they understood me.
Do you have any corn to sell either in the ear or shelled? I want to buy a bushell or two. I am also in need of a couple bushel of potatoes and some dry onions. I have not had a taste of onions in three months or more. I had a chance to buy onion sets yesterday, will plant them in a day or two but it will be sometime before I can see them up.
I am not going to have much of a garden this year - between the rabbits and the moles, the garden stuff don't amount to much. Though, I had a nice lot of hubbard squash - but the frost spoiled them for me.
I will plant some of them again this year but will try and have a place underground where the frost cannot touch them.
I don't suppose that there is any need of inviting you to come and take a look at the little darling's portrait, but nevertheless I do so. Though that is about all you can see now, for I have taken down the large Historical Painting. For, you know that the carpenter will soon be here and finish the upstairs part, and I did not wish to have it exposed to the dangers of flying boards. I am not run down yet but I had better have mercy on you and quit this scribbling
and say - I am as ever yours
Theo Gegoux
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