No. 194

Dear Billy:

Hiya, Honey Lamb: As I write this, I am wondering if you on leave and basking in the sunshine on the Riviera. Even if it is too warn to go to the Riviera, I do hope you are able to get a leave and go someplace. After all, you haven’t had any time off in two and a half years.

By the way, your balance as of June 30^th amounted to $360. And I received the usual acknowledgment covering your check.

Heltie has to go back to Boston tonight. He really has three more days but one of the captains in his office wants to go away on a fishing trip, or something, and he can’t go until Heltie gets back so he asked Heltie if he would come back tonight, if he weren’t doing anything special, so Heltie said he would. He still has the three other days coming to him and he will probably take then next month.

Heltie and I were out to Ruth Bryson’s on Friday night. Charlie Miller is still over in Europe but expects to get home soon. Eddie Miller has been in Hawaii for some time but expects to be moved farther on.

Gus Gomery is back from overseas. He had some sort of accident in a jeep on the other side and broke his leg. He has been on crutches but is now able to walk with a cane.

Heltie was up to the tennis club again on the Fourth of July and Marlis Streeck was three. She was all excited. She had just had a phone call from Karl that he was at Ft. Dix and would be home either that night or the next day. She had had a phone call from him a couple of days before to the effect that he had arrived in Virginia and would be home shortly, so she said she didn’t move away from the phone until she had received the second call that he was at Ft. Dix. Karl has been over in Germany and is supposed to go to the Pacific after his leave is finished. He is with the engineers. They are keeping their fingers crossed that he won’t be able sent over again because of his age. I think Heltie said he is 37.

I finally finished the roll of film in Heltie’s camera and took it up to be developed last night. I will get the pictures back next Monday. There are 25 pictures to the roll so I should have some good ones to send to you. I took several pictures of the garden so you can see how dad has it laid out now.

Bye for now, Honey Lamb. Let me know if you want anything special. You haven’t had the “Gimmies” in a long time and I really feel lost unless I’m running around trying to get something or other for you.

Squeels