Hi Leah!
The house I'm living in still looks beautiful even though it's falling apart, and it used to be a barn and it's shaped like an L. There are huge vines all over the house and they must have been there for hundreds of years and they don't have any flowers yet. The inside is jumbled up and all the rooms are huge and scattered with old furniture.
There was a bombing in London, though you might have heard of it, what with nothing else being on the news here. If you haven't there were seven thousand people killed in a train station and everyone's been talking about whether This Means War.
Edmond is only fourteen and he smokes and drives because he says it's more than his life's worth to disturb Aunt Penn when she's working and he can answer questions that you haven't even asked yet. When I first got her I wondered if Aunt Penn was dead and no one had thought to tell me because everyone does everything that they'd normally wait for an adult to do back home. But then I saw her so that's all right.
This place is a farm that no one in the family works on because Aunt Penn is too busy but a farmer comes to take care of the crops and goats and sheep.
How are things back in New York? Not as crazy as they are here, I hope.
Bye,
Daisy.