August 9, 1937 — Speedometer reading – 46999.5
St. Clair County, Michigan

We were up bright and early and ready to leave at 8′o’clock. Pat had told me a couple of weeks earlier that John Robinson had offered to take care of the cow for us and then after a few days he decided the Burse’s might like to take care of her so he asked them and they thought they couldn’t manage it. Then just two or three days before it was time for us to go he said he believed he would ask Fred Burdie as he thought it would be asking too much of John to milk an extra cow in the mornings. Well it was left like that and on Monday morning I went to see if Johnson’s or Robinsons would sell Burses milk for themselves and to feed our cats. Found out that John had been depending on milking her. I came home and told Pat that if he hadn’t had that cow on wheels up and down Griswold Street for the last two weeks we wouldn’t have gotten into such a tangle.