A daily journal from 76 years ago
262nd day - 103 days to follow Fair and warm. Worked some in the grove, cleaned up some stuff out of the attic. Jubbie worked this afternoon. Mary Gallagher was back on the hill this AM, she is getting stuff ready for Martha to go to school in Cnn. I heard that some Armenians have …
261st day - 104 days to follow Cool and cloudy, wind east. Dragged out limbs and cut down dead pines in back of the barn. Ski got her last letter from Alex, he is sailing for home and won't be able to write again. Jubbie came to work this afternoon and it started to rain …
260th day - 105 days to follow Cool and cloudy light showers Mrs H and Martha went to Boston today. Sawed and split kindling. Steve Treglawn came over to see me and introduce his new gardener, Tom Beale, quite an odd fellow and he is staying in Granny’s house this winter. Jubbie didn’t show up …
259th day - 106 days to follow Fair and cool this AM. We had a shower last night. Thel and I went over to Triangle Pond and I lost off a whale of a pickerel. Mowed a lot of brush around in front of the camp. The chipmunk was having a great time carrying off …
258th day - 107 days to follow Fair and hot. Picked 1 ½ bushels of tomatoes. After dinner Thel and I went down to the camp. We went fishing and caught a lot of roaches. There was some thunder to the So West. We went down on the point on the back after supper and …
257th day - 108 days to follow Fair and warm. Picked another bushel of tomatoes up on the hill. Mowed the lawn. Mrs H and I went down on the Avenue and picked one bushel of wild grapes, about ¼ of what we got off the same vines. She told me she that May Gallagher …
256th day - 109 days to follow Fair and warm wonderful day. Went up on the hill and fixed the fire, then came back and Thel, Ski and I started for Brockton Fair. We picked up Archie and Cozette on the corner of Cliff St. We rode up to Brockton and the women had some …
255th day - 110 days to follow Partly cloudy and warm. We had a real hard thunderstorm at 1-30 AM this morning. Martha Driscoll was here at noon. Took one of my largest musk mellons up to give Mrs Driscoll and Martha she gave me 3 cigars in return. Martha came down and thanked me …
254th day - 111 days to follow Fair partly cloudy. Hot. Mrs H went to Boston this am. Stopped in to see David and gave him a mellon, he said Oh Boy! He sure likes them. Saw a green snake on the hill. My peaches are ripe. The gremlin is walking all around the house.
253rd day - 112 days to follow Light fog in AM and hot. Sawed and split kindling today. The hummingbirds are still here. Picked 1 ½ bushels of tomatoes up on the hill. Picked some lima beans and four mellons in the garden, cut some corn stalks and gave them to Phil’s cattle, he gave …
