A daily journal from 76 years ago
24th day-341 days follow Warmer and cloudy. Sawed wood in back of the barn. We got a nice long letter from Ski she wants to stay there longer. Finished sawing up the loose wood and started in the stacked pile. Stopped by to see Pick and the boys on my way home from work. There …
23rd day- 342 days follow Arrowheads Cold this A.M. not much wind. Good day to saw wood. Silver came down from Eleanors. Ruth Finney is in Long Island. Bill came up on the hill at 2 P.M. and he and I went up to Porter Harlows and hunted up near the barn and I found …
22nd day- 343 days follow Arrowhead Cloudy and cool 32 We had another letter from Ski today she still likes Florida. After dinner I took a walk down by the beach club and found one nice side notched arrowhead in the flower garden the other side of Ed Manters hen house. There was one black …
21st day- 344 days follow Rain and warmer Snowed hard some time in the night turning to rain, very sloshy. Went up on the hill and found everything O.K. Saw two grey squirrels at the feed box on the back porch. We got another [letter] from Ski, she still seems to be having a good …
20th day- 345 days follow Cold and spitting snow Thel got up at 2 A.M. and shut off the furnace as it was leaking oil. I got up at 7:30 A.M. and called up Lewis Briar to come and fix the furnace. Went up on the hill and fixed the fires, nobody up. Went up …
19th day- 346 days follow Fair and very cold. Mr. H, Mr. Bubbins, and a friend were up on the hill when I got up there this A.M. Eleanor and George worked up at their house all day. After dinner I made up a scrap book out of the Archeology pages of some Hobbies magazines. …
18th day- 347 days follow Moderate and partly cloudy. Dragged out some brush in the grove. The handy man was up this A.M. Eleanor went up to the Hertsall house and found that one of the water pipes had frozen and burst. Chased the red squirrel away from the feed box. I see that Mr. …
17th day- 348 days follow (gosshawk) Cloudy but warmer Oscar Norton brought 6 bags of sodium chlorate up on the hill. The Gosshawk was up around the place, lit on a tree in the grove. Got a letter from Mr. H. and a lot of postals and a couple of letters. Eleanor went over to …
16th day- 349 days follow (rat) Fair and cold 0 to 10 at noon. Lots of Juncos on the hill, and a flock of crows. Saw tracks in the snow where some quail had gone into a chuck hole to keep warm last night. When I used to trap I occasionally caught a quail in …
15th day- 350 days follow Cloudy and warmer, started to snow again at noon. Burned up brush and stuff from the garden dump. Burned more brush this afternoon. Today is David’s birthday. Filled up the bird feed boxes, there was a lot of juncos around. I tracked seven quail across the bowling green. Quite a …
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