A daily journal from 76 years ago
Fair + Cool The kids are still having a swell time coasting on the front drive. Got a post card from Mrs. H. She wanted mileage on the two cars in the barn. I sent the answer by post card tonight. Still lots of snow on the trees. The radio predicts warmer for tomorrow. I …
19th day- 347 days follow Fair + Cold Dug all this morning. Steve Treglawn came over. He had been trailing someone through the snow who had walked right through four sashes of his cold frames over by the greenhouse. He lost the trail on the hill So. West of my barn on the hill. He …
18th day- 348 days follow Snow + Clearing Woke up at 3 A.M. and it was snowing like time. Geo. came in while we were at breakfast. Ski, George + I took a ride up to the store and got some stuff, then we let George off at Rubin Leach’s and I got off at …
17th day- 349 days follow Warm + Plain Dug out the barn so Mrs. H. could get her car out. She called me up this A.M. and said she is coming down on the noon train. The Crowell kids were sliding on the front drive. Thel and Ski went to Brockton this afternoon on a …
16th day- 250 days follow Fair + Warmer When I came home at noon Victoria and her two boys were here, also Eleanor and her two girls. They all had dinner and Thel and Eleanor gave Pick a couple of presents for the expected baby. I have never seen so much snow on the trees …
15th day- 351 days follow Fair + Cold Dug more snow today. Dug out the car at the garage. The White fuel oil truck brought the oil for the hill today. This has been the coldest day yet, pretty rugged. I am glad I got some bird grain last week. The wild birds sure need …
14th day- 352 days follow Snow Flurry + Clearing Dug snow up on the hill all morning. Whipple’s plowed out the driveways. Pick was over with David today. Bud and Ski were in here all the evening.
13th day-353 days follow (Buggy) Snow + Light Rain This morning I went over to the National Bank and paid my State Income Tax $7.59 and got a pair of over shoes. The roads are in poor driving as there is slush under the snow. Bud came in after supper with one of the South …
12th day- 354 days follow Cloudy + Warmer Put ont some feed for the birds, cleaned up the house. Called up White Fuel and ordered oil for the hill. Jubie and I worked down the front drive and split up some wood logs we have sawed up. Bud and Ski came in while we were …
11th day- 355 days follow Fair + Cold Geo. came in this morning. He and I rode up to the store and got the paper, left a bundle for Mrs. Treglawn at the church. We went up on the hill and saw Mr. H. and Geo. Crowell. On the way home we stopped in to …
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