Getting Started

We were very busy that first year, but were helped some by several friends and relatives who would stay with us. Sometimes for just a day, a week, a month or more. We made many mistakes, sometimes for lack of knowhow, but mostly for lack of money or I should say absence of money. We did enjoy our battery powered radio and also the daily newspaper. It was The Philadelphia Record which went out of business later. I remember a couple of times when I did not have the two cents to buy it on my way home from the dairy every morning.
That farm was a great change from Roxborough. The fields were relatively level instead of hilly. The soil was a clay loam with a hard claypan underneath instead of sandy with many stones and rock.
We built a new fence around the pasture. We used old barbed wire that we brought from Roxborough, and posts that we salvaged from the original wooden fence. We had no money to spend for anything new.