A daily journal from 76 years ago
Arrowheads Fair + Cool Yesterday I saw a sparrowhawk up on the hill behind the garage and up by West Pond a grouse walked across the road in front of the car. Jubbie came to work this A.M. Thel and Cozette came up on the hill to tell me Mrs. Hornblower wanted some berries and …
355th day- 10 days follow Fair + Warmer Arrowheads Geo. and the girls came at 9:00 AM. Bob, Gretchen, Karen came up for an hour this morning. Geo. took me over to H.H. cow barn and I hunted for 1 ½ hours. I found the point of a large red spear point, two broken arrowheads, …
354th day- 11 days follow Fair + Cool Jubbie and I worked on the brush in the grove. After dinner I built a place for Ski’s hay and grain. Bill came up and we took a ride up to a bog by Dead Man’s Curve in Middleboro. We walked all the way around the bog …
353rd day- 12 days follow Fair + Cold. Windy Thel came up on the hill and took down the living room curtains. Jubbie and I worked on the grove again this afternoon. A red squirrel has cut off about 200 pitch pine cones from one tree. They are closed now but will open up and …
352nd day- 13 days follow Partly Cloudy Moderate Took a walk over to see Steve but didn’t We got a surprise present from Mr. + Mrs. Hornblower, and it was a brace of pheasants. Cock + a hen, and a tumbler of jelly. They came from Maple Farms, near Damariscotta, Maine. Thel and Cozette and …
351st day- 14 days follow Fair + Cool We got a Xmas present of a box of pink grapefruit from Bud and Priscilla. And a box of cranberries from Mr. and Mrs. Hornblower. The Boss and Geo. Crowell were on the hill this morning. The Boss went to Martha’s Vineyard. Finished up painting the cellar …
350th day- 15 days follow Roof Somehow I managed to lose a day last week so this has to be a page with nothing on it, just to make the month come out even. Paid the roofer in full $33.85 $25.00 —------ $58.85 total bill
350th day- 15 days follow Fair + Warm Rained hard just before daylight so I looked over Jennie Chandler’s land and all I found was a base and a point, both broken and quartz. The roofer came right after dinner and finished up. It is guaranteed for ten years, so I may have fixed it …
349th day- 16 days follow Partly Cloudy and Warmer Burned brush all day at the dump and behind the barn. The fire drove a couple of rats out of the dump. One of them I got. Mrs. H. came up on the hill about 5:15 and reloaded a lot of stuff into the station wagon …
348th day- 18 days follow Fair + Cold Thel and I went to church this A.M. Geo. stopped in with Marie + Suzanne. We took them home. After church Thel and I went over to town, got some gas, went in to see Ski at the drug store, and took her out to Pioppi’s to …
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