August 12, 1966 "Ruth and I were sitting outside husking corn "

Fri, Aug 12^th (1966, Pana, Illinois)

Dear Mom and Dad,

Yesterday we had a nice surprise! Ruth and I were sitting outside husking corn when a cab drove up and Aunt Rose from Minnesota came out. She had taken the Greyhound bus when Jim’s mom wrote to tell her we would be here. She is Ruth’s sister from Minneapolis.

On Sunday Jim’s mom has invited all the cousins from miles around to a family reunion. We have never met most of them.

The Kids are having a ball. Kenny and Davy are inseparable. Kenny spent the night with him last night. 

The kids have been out in the corn field picking corn and today they are going to dig up potatoes.

Last night we showed some of our home movies and some of the neighbors came over to watch.

Aunt Rose is very interested in everything about living in Europe. She always asks questions and listens to the answers.

Right now the kids are watching Captain Kangaroo and Aunt Rose and Ruth are out in the garden already.

After we got here Jim took Tala’s car to the mechanic that the Singers know to have it worked on. We thought it better to do it here since we don’t know any mechanic in St. Louis. They put some spark plugs, cleaned the points – brakes etc.

Today I think we’ll take the kids to town for some play shoes and blue jeans.

Nancy is getting around on her knees. She is a little fireball now and really knows what she wants.

I think I’ll cut this short because I want to mail this in town and we’ll be going soon.

Please give the family there our best regards. Hope everything is going well for you.

Love Dina and Jim

p.s. Jim has made our return reservations for Friday Sept. 2^nd.