<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>By Florense Courtney Melton</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<P><FONT size=+1> We spent the 4th of July in <A
href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/courtney/wy.gif"
target=_blank>Wyoming</A>. The sagebrush was in great big clumps twelve or
fifteen feet high. They laid by till afternoon. The teams needed a
rest. There was more or less cooking done. My own folks tried their
skill at a cake. Mother used the last of the eggs which were packed in
salt when she started from home. The cake wasn't a howling success, but
the horses got the salt, which made their flour more palatable. Grain was
too bulky to haul so far. So the teams were fed one feed a day of
flour. They did very well. Almost at all times the grass was
good. All through Nebraska we had lots of rain. Every real warm day
was followed by a shower of rain. A small cloud about the size of a man's
hat in the southeast; everyone would rush around to get things put away before
the rain, but usually failed. I remember one night we were about ready to
go to bed, when the storm struck with a terrible wind. Our wagon was right
for the storm to come in the front. Baxter and Ahira had all they could do
to keep Mother's wagon from blowing over. The tent blew down and our bed
was drenched. You could have wrung water out of everything. There
was nothing to do but lie down. The next morning our bed was steaming like
one of Aunt Comfort's packs. Everyone else had fared the same, but no one
was made sick or had a cold that I can remember.</FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Enjoy,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret.<BR>PO Box 530833<BR>San Diego CA
92153<BR>FAX 619-428-6434<BR><A
href="mailto:cchouk@cox.net">mailto:cchouk@cox.net</A><BR>ANDERSON - BLAKELY -
FORD - HOUK - KIMSEY - MOE - RULAFORD - SIMPSON<BR>Searchable GEDCOM: <A
href="http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk">http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~cchouk</A><BR>My
web page MENU: <A
href="http://members.cox.net/~cchouk/">http://members.cox.net/~cchouk/</A><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>