A daily journal from 76 years ago
173rd day - 192 days to follow Temp 76 Ski dance Fair and warm turning to light fog. Harry’s wife was scared stiff when I picked up a milk snake up on the hill Trimmed shrubs, fixed table this am. Mrs H gave me a box of 00 Buck shot. The Old Colony Memorial gave …
172nd day - 193 days to follow Temp 72 Ski Graduation $45.00 Fair and a little cooler today. Mowed this am around in back of the barn and it was hot work. When I got home at noon there was a fine long letter from Dave, he is very busy trying to get his new …
171st day - 194 days to follow Temp 75 Honors from MSG Warm and showers and we sure need them. Put in all the morning transplants put in a lot of enormous trips to root for Mr. H Martha and Dorothy are using the barn as a paint shop, decorating old furniture. Took all of …
170th day - 195 days to follow Temp 90 Fair and hot, very sticky. Hope I can spray my potatoes tonight. Gen Eisenhower arrived in New York today. Thel and Ski had their hair done for the graduation. After supper I sprayed the potatoes. I hear there is to be a couple more babies on …
169th day - 196 days to follow Temp 90+ Fair and hot. Lots of thundershowers but no rain here and we sure need some. Bill Whiting was up on the hill this AM he is taking up the herring trap. Mowed grass on the back driveway. Martha and Mike Driscoll were in here for a …
167th day - 198 days to follow Temp 96 Present Fair and hot [the first section of this entry is a nearly word-for-word repeat of June 15, with a large X through it] Hoed in the garden till 1-30 PM then Thel and I went down tot he pond. Jubbie caught five good pickerel. Frank …
167th day - 198 days to follow Temp 90 Hot and partly cloudy threatened thunder showers. Saw Richard Greenwood up on the hill this noon. Saw a flock of cedar waxwings by the barn and a third grown young rabbit. Borrowed Charlie Fraser’s plain and hung the screen door at the back door. After supper …
166th day - 199 days to follow Temp 96 Present Fair and hot. Worked around the house all day. Roger M was up and fixed the ice box. John OBrian was up and fixed the local telephone. When I got home Charlie Frasier and I put on my front door screen. I got a good …
165th day - 200 days to follow Temp 84 Canoe Fair and hot. Used water on the lawns and flower beds for the first time today. Did chores around the house all day. Redo was up this afternoon and we got the hot water tank straightened up on the standard. After supper Eleanor and I …
164th day - 201 days to follow Temp 74 Arrowhead Some fair weather in AM turning cloudy at noon. Tooled around doing odd jobs all the morning. Charlie Cardino was up on the hill and he said there will be no water today on the hill as they have got to put in a new …
