July 13, 1944

Dear Folks: Our grass is getting nicely rooted and we have cut it twice now. The pansies and geraniums are still in bloom. Horridge was given the job of assistant operations officer so we all call him “Wheel”, the short for “big wheel”. We exchanged our heavy fleece lined clothes for some new light weight ones. The new ones are supposed to be as warm as the old but weigh only a fraction as much. We borrowed another 620 camera so if you got any more film you might send it. I didn’t understand about the binder. Did some one actually want to borrow it? The potatoes are all in bloom here. Am Reading “Cimeron” by Edna May Ferber. I’d make a good Book-of-the-Month club member over here.       John