A daily journal from 76 years ago
223rd day - 143 days follow Fair Mr. Hornblower and Martha left for the Vineyard this morning. On my way home at noon to see Eric and he is feeling fine after his experiences yesterday. Tried to fix my wheel, no go. I will have to get some new tires. Just as I was leaving …
222nd day - 144 days follow Cool Fair Eric, Roger Pic had quite an experience today. Just before noon, Eric swallowed an aunt button so she called the Dr. and he told her to make him take salt water to make him throw up, it didn’t work, so Pick went out on the Avenue and …
221st day - 145 days follow Cool Fair David Engstrom Vaccinated Cleaned the rugs today and mowed lawns. Stopped in to see Eric and David on my way home from work. They are fine. David was vaccinated this afternoon. Thel went up to Boston again today to take May up to see Toot. I got …
220th day - 146 days follow Cooler Cloudy Watered all day. THe Greenwood women are still up on the hill. THere was a big convoy heading into the Sagamore end of the canal last night. I have a hunch it was some of the 90-SB. Thel is going to take May and the gang up …
219th day - 147 days follow Cloudy Arrowheads They stayed at the camp and I took a basket to pick blueberries over where Archie and I got so many last summer. Left the boat at the green turtle and walked over to the berrying ground (Blue) tracked an otter in a woods road. There were …
214th day - 147 days follow Temp 99 Hot Yesterday and today sure are hot. Picked some of my second row of sweet corn. Gee but this is some hot day. This afternoon Thel and I took a ride down to the camp. We went fishing before dinner and no luck at all. After we …
215th day - 148 days follow Hot Mowed lawns all morning. Mrs Whipple came and got a lot of flowers from the hill to use at the wedding they are going to have tomorrow. When I got home from work I called up Walder to see if he would go with me to see if …
216th day - 150 days follow Showers Finished putting up cribbing around the bowling green. Eleaor had Dr, Beers in to see her at noon, she did not work today. Saw the tiny rabbit again in the flower garden and a baby woodchuck on the front drive. Thel, Fannie, Cozzette, and Ethel went down to …
215th day - 151 days follow Foggy Did some watering, packed up some of Bud’s golf clubs to be shipped to him in North Carolina. May says Toot doesn’t seem to be any better but the nurse tol her he is slowly improving. Stopped in to see Eric and David. Pci and Wlader were there …
214th day - 152 days follow Fair Put some more oil on the cypress. Saw the tiny rabbits today. Eb and Grace are still over at Picks. Ski went over to get her teeth fixed up. Put some of the cribbing around the North end of the bowling green. There were hundreds of birds up …
