think it is expesive keeping a house when we are not there (the rent,   pay expenses), but it will be   into a comfortable home after the end of our   trails and   in the desert.



I have been thinking abour sending some lizards to Mr. Herman but don't know whether he cares for them and then,   there are lost of them   to me they are pretty animals same   .  They are brilliantly colored, but they are cute little fellows. You might ask when you write him.



With best wishes to yourself and Mrs. Peterson



Your



Earl Douglass