A daily journal from 76 years ago
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 …
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 …
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