A daily journal from 76 years ago
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 …
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 …
14th day- 351 days follow Partly cloudy and cool. The ground was frozen this morning the first time for a couple of weeks. Eleanor went up to her house this morning and afternoon. She had a telephone installed. Sawed wood out back of the barn all day. Got a letter from Mr. Barden and my …
13th day- 32 days follow Fair and cold No. West wind This morning George and I went up on the hill and from there up to his new house, and we did some furniture moving. From here we went down to his mothers and to Bob Bartletts and back again. After dinner we went up …
12th day- 353 days follow Arrowheads Snowed a little last night, got warmer and melted off by noon. George and Eleanor were here at noon. After dinner Bill Whiting came up and we went out to the Jones River in Kingston and we took a look at the place where Dick Bent found grave material. …
