A daily journal from 76 years ago
199th day – 167 days follow Fair Buried Ginger this morning. Caught another woodchuck, that makes four in the drain pipe. Another box of fish came from Maine at noon. Mrs. H went up to Manchester after Bud and his wife. Put the fish in the freezing unit. Fred Moon came over for a …
198th day – 168 days follow 75 Fair Got another woodchuck on the hill this morning. On the way back I stopped in to see Pic and David. Walder and Eric ere down at the beach. Took a walk down to the beach Club and Mrs. Garis and Mrs. White went over the river on …
197th day – 169 days follow 70 Fair Mrs. H told me that Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Jr. are in Manchester and will be here Monday. When I got home at noon, Geo Steph. was here, Eleanor was working at the beef house. Thel gave me a ride over to Adrian Whitings to the A.S. …
196th day – 170 days follow 70 Fair Summer squash Got up at 5 AM and did some more casting, got nothing. Put the boat in the water to soak her up. Called up Redo for a pump washer. Put Ammonium sulphate on the bowling green and mowed lawns. Redo came up this afternoon and …
195th day – 171 days follow 80 Fair Cucumber Mrs. H talked to Bud over the phone last night and he has got a 20 day furlow and is driving home over the road. I got a letter from Pipley Bulin of Andover, he wants to borrow some of my specimens to put on exhibit …
194th day – 172 days follow 90 Fair Worked on the old rose garden hedges. Didn’t go to drill tonight, too hot to do any extra work for the fun of it. Picked a basket of java beans. The weather bureau have been promising us rain for over a week now, so far we haven’t …
193rd day – 173 days follow 84 Fair Watered again this morning. Caught another woodchuck in the drain pipes, He got on feed off my beets first. Thel and Ski was over to see Eric. Saw Geo Dunlap in his barn with a 22 rifle, he said a woodchuck came into the barn and sat …
192nd day – 174 days follow 90 Fair Camp lots Bass 19 in Watered all day, the Parafax gas man came today. Frank Raymonds daughter Mrs. Sprague came here this noon and brought the deeds to the two lots I bought down at the camp. I paid for my two lots and $200.00 on Dave’s …
191st day – 175 days follow Hot Heard two Bob Whites at the same time, quite like old times. Went up on the hill and did the chores, saw a buster of a woodchuck in Bram. field. After dinner Walder, Harold, and I went out for a sail in his boat after dinner, we sailed …
190th day – 176 days follow 90 Fair Mowed lawns. Geo was here when I came home at noon. Gee is it hot this noon the stuff in the garden looks as if it was going to croak. Betty Covell came down and got one of the kittens. Roger is to have the other one. …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 