names in a bottle

Milton took a bunch of us up on the Big Horn Mountain to go down in a cave; we climbed up the mountain then found the cave. Milton and Don dropped a rope down the cave and Don went down first, then the rest of us climbed down the rope, we found a bottle down there with some names in it and Guy Spence and his brothers name were among them. We all wrote our names and put them in the bottle, I wonder if they are still there.

time pass slowly
After lambing, Milton, Don and Milton wife Doris took the sheep up on the Pryer Mountain for the summer. That left Edith and me in Spence alone with Papa and Mama and the three younger brothers, Charlie, Gene, and Bob. Doris mother came and stayed with us for a month to get well, she had an operation of some kind.

We help mother plant and raise a garden, but time went slow.

shimmy
The section boss had an upstairs in his house with nothing in it but a phonograph, and on the weekends Edith and I would go over there and the four of us would set around and talk and dance. Bobby Caddle and Edith would do the shimmy, which was a dance where you would shake all over; they got pretty good at it.