A daily journal from 76 years ago
30th day- 336 days follow ( Mahatma Gandhi) Fair + Cold Terrible cold again today. Did snow today. Saw the ducks and crows again. Jubbie took Thel’s car over to be checked up, as she wants to go up to the Sportsman’s show. Stopped in to see Pic and the boys on the way home …
29th day- 337 days follow Fair + Cold Very cold all day today. North West wind. Tonight Hen Swift, Bubbie Swift, Archie + Jubbie Hathaway and I went to town to the polo game. There was a good crowd and a good game. Plymouth lost to Providence. Thel went up to the Hall to take …
28th day- 338 days follow Fair + Cold Clear and very cold today. Fine day to take snow pictures. I saw a small bird that died of starvation or froze over by Warren Davis’s this morning. After dinner Thel took the car and Helen Griffin and Cozette for a ride down to Hyannis. Thel took …
27th day- 339 days follow Fair + Cold Oehme called me up this morning early and said he was bringing Mrs. H’s boat over to the H.H. garage so I went over there and helped him unload it. Fred helped us stow it away and he had an errand over to town so I rode …
26th day- 340 days follow Fair + Cold A lot of snow up on the hill. The kids were sliding on the front drive yesterday. Oehme came up on the hill after Mrs. H’s rudder to her sail boat. Big bunch of kids sliding on the front drive this afternoon. Thel took the cars out …
25th day- 341 days follow Snow Flurries + Cloudy. Stopped snowing hard this A.M. Dug out around the house, saw the minister and he said he is having a fellow down from Boston some time in Feb. to give a talk on archery to the fellowship. Took a walk up on the hill to check …
24th day- 342 days follow Cold + Snowstorm Started snowing about 10:00 A.M. when I was up on the hill. I stopped in to Walder and Pic’s on my way back at noon. They had a back flash last night at midnight in their furnace and it filled the cellar and the house full of …
23rd day- 343 days follow Cloudy + Cold Put out some more feed for the birds up on the hill. After Thel and I and Margory went down to Wareham and went shopping for groceries. There isn’t half as much snow there as we have. We picked up the eggs at Chas Phinney’s on the …
22nd day- 344 days follow Fair + Light Snow Warmer The front drive up on the hill was glare ice this A.M. I never saw it any slippier than the roads were this morning. We had two inches more snow this afternoon. Thel got the car out after dinner and she went up and got …
21st day- 345 days follow Snow + Rain Two inches of snow when I got up this morning, turning to rain. There is a heck of a lot of water on the Avenue between Picks’ and Cliff St. The drain is plugged. I see Dutton has to have his wrecker come up every morning to …
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