
ToDay is the Birthday of
Fair and cool wind West.
Saw a woodcock on the side of the front drive, I was about eight feet from it, it wasn’t the least bit afraid of me.
Put top dressing on the bowling green.
Ski and Jubbie [?] worked haying for Frank Holman on the Bramhall land.
Chet shot a woodchuck in the cemetery at noon.
Earl Holman came out of the hospital today.
Worked in the garden tonight.
Martha Driscoll came down to the garden, she had found a butt end of a white quartz arrowhead.
Fuller Hammond sent a letter of explanation about not making a dividend payment.
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” Carlyle


The inclusion of “at noon” makes the line about the Woodchuck especially poignant/interesting.
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