A daily journal from 76 years ago
360th day- 5 days follow Cloudy, Rain Jubbie and I worked this A.M. burning brush piles. Started in to rain at noon but I burned alone in the afternoon till 3 P.M. and got a good soaking. Went up to the house and dried off. Thel has got back at her rug making. I have …
359th day- 6 days follow Fair + Cool Checked up up on the hill, saw a rabbit track around the wood pile. On the way back I stopped in to see what Santa Clause left for Eric and David. George ran away from Ski this A.M. He went all up around the hill. Thel, Ski, …
358th day- 7 days follow Fair + Cool Wind blew like time last night and left about ½ inches of frozen slush. Jennie Chandler had the fire dept. up early this morning. The fireplace fire got away and burned a hole in the floor. Went up on the hill. Things were O.K. Blew off a …
357th day- 8 days follow Snow Jubbie and I worked on the trees this A.M. Bill came up on the hill at 10:30 A.M. He and I took a ride up to Dead Man’s Curve and we found the sand pit that the ax was found in, and it probably was a stray specimen as …
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 …
