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 …
Friday, July 7, 1950
Jub and I trimmed all day. Harry’s dog was over in the afternoon chasing rabbits. Mary had Harry’s kids over on the hill this afternoon. After work George picked me up and I went to his house for supper. All of us took a walk down to the river and watched them putting in some …
Thursday, July 6, 1950
Jubbie and I put Ammonium Sulphate and Semesen on the green. I tried an experiment of mixing the two chemicals together and putting it on as one dose. I hope it works. Wanetta was in there at noon with a petition for a Republican. This afternoon Jub and I did some edging around the rose …
Wednesday, July 5, 1950
Jub and I worked trimming edges around the pool garden wall. Martha was over for a few min this A.M. After dinner Bud took me over to So. Spooner St. to Bill Pierce’s funeral. I and Charlie Sherman were pall bearers. There was a lot of people there and a very large number of wreaths, …
Tuesday, July 4, 1950
I got up and went fishing at 5 A.M. Trolled all around the pond and caught only one five inch perch. Finished up making the Cat Bird Trail. Thundered three times about 5:30 A.M. and started to rain about 3:30 P.M. Dave’s gang got quite a lot done on the cement work of their house. …
Monday, July 3, 1950
Jub and I worked on the cutting garden. Bud, Ski, Bud’s sister and family spent the afternoon down at the camp. Bud gave me a ride down after work. Charlie Sherman called me up at noon and again after I got back from work. He said that Bill Pierce died this morning at 2:30 A.M. …
Hi, again
It turns out - there are more journals! Big thank you to Tom Stefani for finding these and sending them along. We'll get to work posting daily entries and we'll find a way to catch up from the first half of 1950. Thank you for following along! Andi and Anne
“Had turkey for dinner.”
On Friday January 1, 1943, my great grandfather had turkey for dinner. I know this because on January 1, 2019, I read his journal entry for that day. And then I typed it out and posted it to the internet so other people could read it, too. And so it began. Seven years ago, I …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 