May 2, 1944

Somewhere in England
Tuesday, May 2, 1944
 
Dear Grandma:
 
Hope this letter finds you and the tribe in the best of health. As for me I’m about the same as ever. The English over here are very tidy people about there farms and livestock. Most of the farms look more like parks than farms. This is mostly sheep country but I have also seen some fat beef cattle. A lot of Black Angus. Most of the farm horses are very big animals and nearly all I’ve seen were worked single. There mostly of the English Shire breed, bays with bald faces and stocking legs and the tails docked and not over a foot long. There are many Clydesdale horses too, marked the same but much larger. They have so much hair around their legs from the knee down and heavy haired fetlocks that we call them feather legged so and so’s.
 
The grass and trees are very green here now but the weather stays cold. We dress warmer here now than we would at home in mid-winter.
 
All auto traffic is opposite to ours and the cars are much smaller with the steering wheel on the right side.
 
Well Gram that about it for the present. Let me here from you often as I may not get to answer all your letters promptly. Howdy to all the tribe. So long.
 
Mel