"if they ever get to it" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Letter to Earl continues: We don't know what they will do about Stoneburners' corn but I guess it will be shucked if they ever get to it. Up next: who is in India?See the cast on flickr.

"it was so cold"  3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Letter to Earl continues:Well, Susie Leiter Petersime died Friday morning and her funeral will be at her home in Lewisburg where her daughter Helen Paul lives. If the roads are so icy I will not get to her...

"lacks lake luster"  3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Letter to Earl continues: Dick Hieter goes back to work but he had to notify the draft board that they would not accept him at the Great Lakes so I bet he will be drafted into the Army. "The sailors on...

"hit the road"  3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. In the previous post there was one sentence regarding Clara Ehler. I didn't have a painting done yet, I just finished it tonight. But the fact that the farm belonged to a woman, and had to be rented intrigued...

"what i heard tonight" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Letter to Earl continues:  Well I heard Mrs. McKee tell Effie Wikle tonight that Lowell and Merriel both were examined and classed and placed in 1A. You see how farmer boys are kept out of the draft....

"he don't tell us much" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Letter to Earl continues:He told some of this news to Young. He don't tell us much. Jose asked me today what I thought and if I blamed them if they had a sale. She said Reitz was supposed to come about the...

"he would keep his horse, a wagon and a manure spreader" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Letter to Earl continues:Bud talks about having sale next month and then Forest Krietzer is going to farm for him. Jose had to help so much in the corn this fall that you...

"they will never get any more cobs while the engine is running" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Letter to Earl continues:The Cowan boy was getting cobs before he did and he got sick too and Mr. Cowan took his boy to the doctor and then took him home and put him in...

"don't go up in the hay mow" 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper.Letter to Earl continues:He told Jose he was not drunk and handed her the medicine that the doctor give him. Ralph and your dad went over to help him get down feed as Jose did not want him to go up in...

I did only one drawing while I was in New York, but I left it at my mom's. It was a sketch of her dining room chair. My great-niece Hailey likes to draw, so we spent the morning sketching together. It always amazes me how people can just pull images from their minds....

(I have been away and the blogger interface has changed. Oh, I was confused for a moment. But everything is here, just a different place.) So, I was in New York, or more specifically Long Island and Manhattan Island, that's it. One day the east end, one day the city...