A daily journal from 76 years ago
143rd day – 223 days follow 70 – 55 Fair – Foggy Had Finneys express come up and take the rugs to go to Boston to be cleaned. The girls were up on the hill today. Planted two yew trees at the entrance of the front drive. Stopped in to see Eric on my way …
142nd day – 224 days follow 65 Fair Went up on the hill and did up the chores, Mr. and I went to the beach club and looked it over, it sure is in bad shape, even the stucco on the outside has started to fall off. Called up Pic and found that Walder and …
141st day – 225 days follow 65 Fair Did house chores and mowed lawns. This morning Mrs. H and Martha and one of the Bubbins girls went down to Hows Lane boathouse and out Mrs. H’s dosey in the beach wagon, she is going to have it painted over at the Yacht Club. We stopped …
140th day – 226 days follow 65 Fair Had a frost last night and froze up my beans and morning glories up on the hill. There was a pair of quail, male and female, on Martha’s flower garden. Mowed all the lawns but the bowling green. Thel is going to cook over at Bert’s this …
139th day – 227 days follow 65 Fair Cool north wind all day, feels as if we might have a frost tonight. Weeded flower beds and transplanted flowers. Had a postal from Mrs. H, she is coming up from Martha’s Vineyard tomorrow. Planted over some of my corn where it skipped coming up. Thel, Archie …
138th day – 228 days follow 80 Fair Geo Crowell was up on the hill this morning, he took the top off the freezer unit motor and rest the thermostat to make it colder. Check came today instead of yesterday. Charlie Strickland came up on the hill this afternoon with a carpenter and we moved …
137th day – 229 days follow 75 Fair I heard a cuckoo this morning. Mowed lawns and dug up the flower garden around the sun porch. The women were up on the hill.
136th day – 230 days follow 70 Fair We have had such a long dry spell that I watered all day. Got another letter from Mr. Barden, M.A.S. secretary. My beans on the hill don’t look as good as they did last year. This is the first afternoon it has looked like rain for a …
135th day – 231 days follow 75 Fair No rain last night, some thunder and lightning. Went up on the hill this morning and on the way back I stopped in at Walder’s we got rid of his tent caterpillars than came home and killed mine. Archie and Jubbie were working in the garden. Percy …
134th day – 232 days follow 80 Fair Mowed lawns and watered this am. Put in the whole afternoon in the garden, cultivating and digging out the dog grass. Geo is home on a 3 day furlow, he and Eleanor were here for a few minutes. Thel and Ski worked on the store truck. They …
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