A daily journal from 76 years ago
13th day- 352 days follow Fair + Mild There was a jet plane flying around here this A.M. the first one I have seen, and it sure was traveling. I saw a robin this morning. Ski broke the second key trying to unlock her door. So I took a skeleton key and filed out a …
12th day- 353 days follow Cloudy + Cool Worked all day in the grove sawing wood and dragging out brush. I saw eight robins this morning. Burned up a lot of stuff at home in my incinerator. Carl stopped for Thel tonight. While I was eating my supper Ski and Bud came in just got …
11th day- 354 days follow Fair + Mild Chopped down some more trees in the grove. Stopped in at Ed. Manters on the way home at noon and paid Grace Snow 20.00 for garage rent for the season. Thel, Pic, Eleanor, Tillie are planning a shower for Ski next Mon. night. I talked to Harry …
10th day- 355 days follow Cloudy + Mild (Target) Sawed up the wood I had cut down in the grove. I have two good big piles of two foot wood piled up now. Eleanor and Marie and Suzanne were here for dinner. Ethel Swift came down to visit Thel this afternoon. The electrician put in …
9th day- 356 days follow Cloudy & Mild Took a walk up on the hill and saw Mrs. Hornblower. Dave and Dot and Davene came down. When we all got here at 1 PM we took off for town and went to the Congregational Church and Ski and Bud were married by Dr. Anthony. Then …
8th day- 357 days follow Fair & Warm Fine day and real warm. Stopped in to see Pic on way home. After dinner I rode over to Town with Walder and Pic got a haircut and a card for Ski. Saw Arthur Sirico in town. Went up to Bill Whitings for a couple of hours …
7th day- 359 days follow Thel and Tillie came up on the hill and made up all of the beds. I oiled all the floors and laid the rugs. After dinner I raked up our yard for Sunday. Ski got two more presents today. She took Target for a ride up around the county, she …
6th day- 360 days follow Rain & Fair Rained all the morning and I worked on the Tel trench, got it fulfilled and the sod relaid. Then spent the rest of the day in the grove chopping down trees. Mrs H came about 11-15 and left for Martha’s Vineyard about ? P.M. She brought a …
5th day- 361 days follow Mild and rain Saw Mr H and Geo. Crowell up on the hill this morning. Mr H and I took a ride down to his bog in Rochester. We made a couple of trys to get a shot at some ducks on his bog but we had no luck. A …
4th day- 362 days follow Fair & Warmer The telephone men were up on the hill and installed the extension to my tool house. Took me most all day smashing up the frozen earth and filling the trench. Put weather stripping around the sun porch windows. When I came home from work, Victoria, all her …
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