ToDay is the Birthday of ___________
South wind and warm, 62.
Trimmed up some wood this morning.
Pruned the wisteria after dinner.
Started to rain about 2:30.
Stopped in to see Vick. Eric was asleep.
Ski went over to Vick’s today.
I wrote a letter to Mrs. Hornblower.
Got a letter from Dave today. He said Dottie is still hanging on, her mother is there now.
Dave says the Co. are planning to build larger and better skyfarers [?]** after the war is over.
Wrote a letter to Bob tonight.
Eleanor and Ski went over to Vicks while she and Walder went to Black and White.*
All the commentators are talking about the speech Winston Churchill made yesterday.
Saw a fellow down around the beach club looking for places to set traps.
āTake all swift advantage of the hours.ā Shakespeare
*Sometimes, these journal entries aligned with my own memories. I remember my grandparents going to Back and White Club when I was a child. My mother (Anne Verre) has two painting of my father (Steven Verre) in her living room that were done when he offered to sit as a model for the Club. It’s amazing to me, these tiny reminders in these pages that let me know these people are a part of my own history.
**note from Conrad Covell
Arrowheads Up the Hill 
Skyfarer was an airplane David built working for a company in Lowell MA prewar. He moved to Long Island during the war to build gliders for the Army.
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