A daily journal from 76 years ago
219th day - 147 days follow Cloudy Arrowheads They stayed at the camp and I took a basket to pick blueberries over where Archie and I got so many last summer. Left the boat at the green turtle and walked over to the berrying ground (Blue) tracked an otter in a woods road. There were …
214th day - 147 days follow Temp 99 Hot Yesterday and today sure are hot. Picked some of my second row of sweet corn. Gee but this is some hot day. This afternoon Thel and I took a ride down to the camp. We went fishing before dinner and no luck at all. After we …
215th day - 148 days follow Hot Mowed lawns all morning. Mrs Whipple came and got a lot of flowers from the hill to use at the wedding they are going to have tomorrow. When I got home from work I called up Walder to see if he would go with me to see if …
216th day - 150 days follow Showers Finished putting up cribbing around the bowling green. Eleaor had Dr, Beers in to see her at noon, she did not work today. Saw the tiny rabbit again in the flower garden and a baby woodchuck on the front drive. Thel, Fannie, Cozzette, and Ethel went down to …
215th day - 151 days follow Foggy Did some watering, packed up some of Bud’s golf clubs to be shipped to him in North Carolina. May says Toot doesn’t seem to be any better but the nurse tol her he is slowly improving. Stopped in to see Eric and David. Pci and Wlader were there …
214th day - 152 days follow Fair Put some more oil on the cypress. Saw the tiny rabbits today. Eb and Grace are still over at Picks. Ski went over to get her teeth fixed up. Put some of the cribbing around the North end of the bowling green. There were hundreds of birds up …
213th day - 153 days follow Fair Freddie Drese and Paul Goodwin came up in Finney’s truck and we went up to Stones and got the Cyprus cribbing that was around the flower beds. Saw Geo Simmons there. After dinner Thel took me over to town and I got a gal of linseed oil, a …
212th day - 154 days follow Fair Shower Thel and I went fishing this morning and got red perch and crappies. We had them for dinner. Adter dinner Eb Swift Grace and Kennie and Eb’s young sister came down to the cam and stayed till 7 PM. Eb and I fished awhile and had no …
211th day - 155 days follow Fair After dinner Thel and I went down to the camp We went fishing after supper and caught only a few small fish. Some of the foliage is coming out on the trees for the second time. The first lot of leaves were all eaten off by gypsy moth …
210th day - 156 days follow Foggy George and Eddie Geo and Eddie came in at 6-30, he has got to be back at camp at 8 AM. Thel is taking May up to see Toot today. Junior drove George back to Camp. At 9 AM this morning I saw a hummingbird building a nest …
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