Showers Bill and I went out this A.M. and he caught a honey of a big pickerel. I got one on but it threw the hook. It started to rain so we had to quit. We saw the eagle this afternoon. We listened to the double header. It was a split. At 6 P.M. Bill …
Saturday, July 15, 1950
Fair + Cool I saw Mr. H. and Geo. Crowell up on the hill this morning. Mr. H. gave me another salmon and one for Jubbie. Thel got Bud to give me a ride down to Bill Whiting’s camp on White Island Pond. Bill and I went out fishing. We couldn’t catch any bait, so …
Friday, July 14, 1950
Cooler today. Good Ricky Greenwood came and got his puppy. George Crowell is back from Reno. He went out there and divorced his wife so she married Richard Greenwood. I stopped in at Pick’s after work and had supper. After supper Walder and I took a ride up to his wood lot that the new …
Thursday, July 13, 1950
Very Hot today This afternoon Arthur Sirrico and I delivered several salmon that the boss sent from New Brunswick. I stopped at Pick’s on the way home from work. There was no one home. Lots of people on the beach today. I made up a red cedar pole for striper fishing. I think it will …
Wednesday, July 12, 1950
Mrs. H. went down to Bud’s to see her latest grandson. Jub drove me over to town at noon and I drew out $250.00 to loan him on his camp. Charlie Fraser Jr. has an Austin car and it looks fine. I had supper over at Ski’s. After supper I took a walk up back …
Tuesday, July 11, 1950
We rebuilt the mint bed this A.M. and we went over to Harry’s and found that the drawers she wanted us to fix, stuck on the front panel, so I decided it was no job for me. Eric, David, and Suzanne
Monday, July 10, 1950
Watered all day. Mrs. H. was up on the hill today. George stopped in for me at 5 P.M. and I started off with him to have supper and met Thel down by Dutton’s coming after me, so I went down to the camp and all of Carl’s crowd were there, including Paul P. We …
Sunday, July 9, 1950
Fair Had breakfast at 7 A.M. Cast a few times off the point. Then I went up and finished the road. Fished a little in the late afternoon and caught only small red perch. The big blue gills are still dying in the pond. I think it is from picking feed from the surface of …
Saturday, July 8, 1950
Hot. Thel came up on the hill just before noon. We picked up Eleanor and got her two kids and their dog with Ski, her baby, and dog. We sure had a car full. I worked most of the afternoon fixing the road. In the late afternoon I tried the new plug Marie + Suzanne …
Friday, March 3, 1950
[This out-of-order entry is for Ski's son, Larry Smith, who's been anxiously waiting for five years to see the record of his birth!] Such a cold N.W. wind today that we couldn’t work out of doors. Tom and Arthur have carted off most of our woodpile in back of the barn. Ski went up to …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 