A daily journal from 76 years ago
223rd day- a43 days follow Fair + Cooler I got my new tax bill today. The new valuation on my lot at the camp is $600.00 and the building $200.00. Grandma Holman was here all day. Eleanor and the kids were here when I got home from work. Thel and I went down to the …
222nd day- 144 days follow Fair + Cooler Jubbie worked all day on the front drive gutter. Watered the lawns and gardens all day. Worked in the house all the evening. Found a mouse nest in the clothes closet, 8 young ones and two old ones and I caught one later. Bud and Ski were …
221st day- 145 days follow Fair + Cool. Wind West George came and got me this morning and I had dinner with them. George and I had several games of horseshoes. I won. I came home with Thel when she got through working. Ski took a horseback ride after she got home from work.
220th day- 146 days follow (Arrowheads) After dinner I rode my wheel to the Browne Site and dug for 3 hours. I found one white quartz hammer stone, three broken white quartz triangular heads, poor. Saw Mrs. Griffin there, she asked me how deep the loam was so I took a stick and gave the …
219th day- 147 days follow Partly Cloudy. Warm We worked all day on the gutters, a tough hot job. After supper I took my 22 and hid in the grass behind Jennie Chandler’s fence. After about an hour I saw the big woodchuck in the cut off oats. I took a shot at it and …
218th day- 148 days follow Cloudy + Cool Jubbie didn’t come up on the hill till 2 P.M. He had car trouble and went from the hill back to the garage again and finally got it fixed. After supper I fed, watered, + grazed Ski’s horse, and watched the granddaddy of woodchucks over in Jennie …
217th day- 149 days follow Foggy + Cooler When I came home tonight Eleanor and the kids came with Thel. Eleanor went after George + they ate supper here. Marie had her supper over at Pick’s. Roy Holman and his family were over at Archie’s tonight. Saw both of the red-starts up on the hill …
216th day- 150 days follow Fair + Warm Martha and her two girl friends went to the Vineyard this P.M. After work Thel and I took a ride down to the camp and had supper. After supper we went out on the pond fishing. I caught a large roach and a nice small mouth bass. …
215th day- 151 days follow Fair + Hot Spent all day spraying gutters and ivy on the front drive. After work tonight I stopped at Pick’s and saw Howard Engstrom’s two girls. They had just stopped over till tomorrow when they start for Maine. George came down after supper and we took a walk down …
214th day- 152 days follow Hot + Cloudy Took a walk over to Pick’s this A.M. and stayed till 4:30 P.M. Had dinner with them. Karin, Walder’s sister-in-law came up for dinner. She said that she expects Howard and the two girls to arrive some time tonight from Washington. Walder said Ed Swift was down …
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