A daily journal from 76 years ago
209th day - 157 days follow Cloudy Eleanor got up early and took Eddie back to Camp Miles Standish. There was a rabbit eating my beets up on the hill. The young hummingbirds fill their nest to overflowing. Mowed lawns all day. May called up the Hospital at noon and they told her that Toot …
208th day - 158 days follow Fair Toot When I got home this noon I found that Toot has been taken to Boston to be operated on. Thel is going up this afternoon to take up some men to help the blood bank, to pay for Toot’s transfusion. Eleanor got two letters from George. I …
207th day - 159 days follow Fair Watered and dug up the bean patch. Brought home some tiles as an experiment to see how they would work out as a help to watering my mellon vines. Watered the vines when I got home from work. Eleanor got a card from George saying that his address …
206th day - 160 days follow Fair Bud and Priscilla and Mrs. H went back to Boston this morning. Pulled up my string bean vines. Toot is coming along fine, am going to call on him tonight. I have several water and musk melons of pretty good size. Stopped in to see Eric on the …
205th day - 161 days follow Fair I got up and cast off the point before breakfast, caught a nice boack si;l fish line, and a mslal abalone spinner that had got caught on a root. A couple of kids came over and tool the old boat that Dick Cox and I pulled off the …
204th day - 162 days follow Fair Toot Harry and I took a walk over back of the cow barn and took a look at the dig. Two of the markers were gone. After dinner I worked in the garden. Thel went over to see May about Toot and he has a fractured vertebrae and …
203rd day - 163 days follow 70 Showers Martha H We had a few slight showers this morning. Called up May at noon and she said that they have not decided just wha’ts wrong with Toot. Swept all the rugs in the house this morning. Saw three different quail today, the most I have seen …
202nd day - 164 days follow 73 Fair Toot Looked as if we might get a shower this morning but nothing happened. Watered, weeded and trimmed all day. Thel and Cozette went down to the camp for a couple of days. May called me up and said Toot is up at the hospital, it seems …
201st day - 165 days follow 73 Fair I found a tiny robin by my shanty Monday, something had killed and eaten part of it and I wondered what was responsible. Today I found out, it was a red squirrel, he was after another young robin and the two old birds was giving it a …
200th day - 166 days follow 70 Fair Sweet corn Saw Bud and Priscilla and Mrs. Greenwood, they are all looking fine. Got a letter from Dave this noon and a check for $100, one half of the loan. Had a nice chat with Bud and the family on the back porch. I [picked a …
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