A daily journal from 76 years ago
ToDay is the Birthday of $9.00 from Thel Fair and warm, wind East. Chet didn't show up to work, someone called the hill and said he was sick and might not come tomorrow. We had our first sweet corn tonight. I picked two dozen ears. We had a thunderstorm. I worked in the garden some …
ToDay is the Birthday of Hazy and warm wind So. Got up at sunrise and did some casting from the point, and I got a fine bass before Archie showed up. When he did he rowed me around the pond and I caught two more. After breakfast, Archie and I took a couple of pails …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and warm, wind So. The kids went down tot he camp in Milt's truck. Thel, Archie, Fannie, and I went down to the camp at four pm. When we got to Haskills bog, I got out and took a water pail and went toward Triangle Pond looking for blue …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and cool wind east. Put a skylight in the roof of my shop up at the hill. Worked some in the garden. Some of my onions are getting ripe, and picked two ripe tomatoes. Claire Driscoll came down with a friend from Washington to get some dope on archeology. …
ToDay is the Birthday of Showers today, wind So. Put weed killer on poison ivy. Went after swamp blueberries with Milt and Jubbie, we went up to my old swamps on the Blanchard Road. I got about 5 quarts and they got a little over 3 quarts each. When I got home, Claire Driscoll and …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Went to drill tonight, and we marched over to the Green and drilled there, the firstt ime for a good many years. Just as I came out of the Armory, there was a blackout so I came home on foot in the dark. Thel went …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Planted beans for the second time on the same plot up on the hill. Mrs. H. said she was going up to Gardner to be present when Richard Greenwood's factory was presented with the Navy E. After supper, Walder and I went up to the …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot wind West. I saw the four Australian boys up on the hill this morning. Taught them how to pitch horseshoes. And I got their autographs. They are a very nice appearing bunch of boys. Pulled up my bean vines on the hill and hope to plant a …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Thel and I fished this morning. I caught a bass and lost it. Milt and Jubbie went fishing and had a bass and a big pickerel. I had no luck. The swimming was great and we all enhoued it a lot. Rained a little last …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Eleanor brought me to work this morning. Wilt and Jubbie came in at noon and we put a bed on his truck and went down to the camp. We went by the way of Jordan and Long Pond Road. I got a couple of strikes …
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