Maria and I returned from our birthday (Maria’s) visit to Brattleboro, Vt., we had the most wonderful time talking, eating walking. There is this wonderful shop there that has all kinds of neat kid’s stuff and I bought this winter hat for Robin, I’m sending it off in the mail tomorrow, although I might go see her next Sunday. We’ll see how it goes.

My cold is easing up, which is good, we just got back. More later. I mailed this to Emma, she loves i.