log cabin

Papa built another room on the log cabin he had already built. We moved down in there and he moved the tent house down by the log house with two bedrooms. We moved in that. Then he later built another little bedroom on. That was the house we live in. He built a porch from the bedroom to the tent.

lost & found
About that time, mama was doing a lot of crocheting and I always wanted to crochet for her so I would take her things and take off and hide and ruin her crochet work. One day I lost her crochet needle, I hunted and hunted for that crochet hook, but could not find it. I prayed and prayed, thought maybe the lord would show me where it was, but he didn’t, I had to go tell mother that I had lost her crochet hook. One morning we got up early and she came in and said, your prayers are answered, "Papa found the crochet hook in his leg last night". I had left it in their bed. I was sitting in their bed crocheting and I had left it on the bed.

That winter while we were in New Mexico, papa built a one room house on the place and moved the kitchen down in it, but we sleep in the tent house that summer, he built a reservoir to catch the water for the cow and horses to drink.

ride the ditch
Papa got a job riding the ditch for Red Mesa. The people had got together and built a dam on the Platt River so they could get water for their farms. Papa had to regulate the water so the farmers would get their share of water; we were the first one on the ditch. It also was Papa job to keep the ditch clean.

My brother Alvin was irrigating for papa and he'd set the water and went to bed. Next morning instead of crops being watered, the water was going down the big ditch and Alvin got so mad that he sits up all night down on the head gate, to catch uncle Orville stealing the water.

That summer Dad also built another room on the house and moved the tent house down by the two rooms and papa and mother sleep in the front room.

relief society
I don't think we kids went to school that year, I don't remember going to school. I think Don and Daphne must have gone. I remember mother had a miss carriage with the twins, and the relief society came and got some old cloth that people had given her. When they brought them back we all had new cloths to wear.