LIST: This is a letter from Rhoda Woody to her uncle John Jefferson Woody and her aunt Martha Sirilda (Barnhart) Woody, April 7th, 1926 from Pueblo Colorado. Notice how important eggs, setting hens and gardens were to these people in these times. It was the difference between having anything to eat and doing without. April 7th, 1926 Pueblo Colorado Dear Aunt, Uncle & family. Will write you a letter have been wanting to write you for a long time but never got to it I suppose the older I get the more careless and neglectful I get about writing. We are tolerable well. I haven't been well this winter. I have had a cold all winter but I am about to get rid of it at last. For some reason it has been an awful bad winter for colds anyway. It was't that such a bad winter either. We have had awful bad weather for over two weeks though snow and awful cold too. It was below zero one night. It is still cloudy and damp but not cold.I am hoping after this week the weather will settle and it will be pretty. I haven't made any garden yet. they sowed celery seed and ordered 2500 cabbage plants and are getting them today. I think they are going to order onion plants to set about 1/4 acre too. Aunt Sirilda I guess you and Flossie have have lots of little chickens. I set my first hens yesterday, only I think I will send to Kansas and get my chickens already hatched. I am selling most of my eggs for setting eggs. Have been taking Oma fresh eggs too. So don't think I'll get many. I go to see Oma every few days. I guess she is mending some. I believe if she will do just what the Dr. say for to do she will get well. Fannie & Henry took her to a good doctor 2 weeks ago, he told her she would have to go to bed and stay there or she wouldn't get well. She is running a temperature every day. But I think the last few days she hasn't had any temperature. And she seemed awful nervous but she is better that way too. He gave her a tonic to give her an appetite. She won't eat much but she drinks a lot of milk both sweet and buttermilk. Me and Fannie take her fresh buttermilk and Fannie takes her a quart of sweet milk every day. They have lots of good friends here a good many strangers have called on her everybody is good to them. The women close around them send nice things they think she will eat. Rhoda. DeVere