Fair and Hot Jubbie and I finished up taking the crabgrass out of the pool green. Mrs. H’s rug man was down from Boston to look over some rugs in the HH barn. George, Eleanor and the kids came down tonight for a short visit. They were after their dog but she skipped them. There …
Thursday, July 27, 1950
Fair + Hot We picked out crab grass all day today. Did a little mowing after supper, too hot to do much. Bud and Ski went down to Bert’s for supper. Some one was talking to Thel on the phone about buying pups at noon when I went to work.
Wednesday, July 26, 1950
Jubbie and I picked crab grass out of the pool grass and put top dressing on the horseshoe green. I brought home the scythe and mowed some of the tall grass and weeds around the house. Had a chat with Charlie Fraser over the fence after dark. The starlings have started to flock up, and …
Tuesday, July 25, 1950
Cloudy Pic called me up after supper and asked me if I wanted to take a ride with them. We took a ride up to Boot Pond and they all went in for a swim. From there we took a ride up around So. Pond Village and back by Russell’s Mills, down to River St., …
Monday, July 24, 1950
Fair Jubbie and I top dressed the bowling green. A woodchuck has eaten up all of my musk mellons. And part of my watermelons. Saw a rabbit again. Jubbie had his horse shod so he can ride it again, Barby Peleranchi is out of the hospital with her son, I hear it is a redhead.
Sunday, July 23, 1950
Fair I took the white boat over to the green turtle and left it there while I took a walk over H.P. site that Bill and I used to dig in, and I found was one white quartz broken point. Took a walk over to Triangle Pond then back to the boat. Rowed from the …
Saturday, July 22, 1950
Fair Thel took me down to the camp after dinner. Ski rode down with us. Dave, Geo., and Carlie were there and they had started working on Dave’s camp. I tried some casting off the point. No luck, then I rowed around the pond trolling and caught two small red perch. The Swedes had another …
Friday, July 21, 1950
Fair + Cool Got things ready for Martha’s birthday party tonight. Hospital fair at Depot Avenue. Geo., Eleanor, Marie, Suzanne, Pic, Eric, David, and Anne were in here for dinner. I stopped in at Pick’s on the way home from work and had supper there. Adrian and Mrs. Whiting came in to see me. She …
Thursday, July 20, 1950
Cloudy + Cooler Weeded out the bowling green. Mary told me Mrs. H. will be home tonight. Had a talk with Geo. Crowell this afternoon. I didn’t see the greys today. Limb tip borers are doing a trimming job on my oaks. I haven’t ever seen so much damage done by them before. I had …
Wednesday, July 19, 1950
Fair and Cooler This morning Jubbie and I took a ride up to the C.C. to see Carl and get some dead birch for the boss to take down to Martha’s Vineyard to use in smoking f ish. I got a good bamboo pole from Carl to knock the dew (?) off the lawn. I …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 