A daily journal from 76 years ago
40th day- 325 days follow (Arrowheads) Very cold and windy. Saw Mrs. H. on the hill this A.M. Miles and I took a walk up the Blanchard road and took a look at a small piece of plowed land on the Bearce place, found one broken point. Came back by Bubbins’ and found one nice …
39th day- 326 days follow (Arrowheads) Thunderstorm, rain, and hail. Mr. and Mrs.. were on the hill this A.M. Burned rubbish in the cutting garden. Too wet for Jubbie to work today. Mrs. H. took a look at the first strip and was quite pleased with it. Bill came up at 1 P.M. and we …
38th day- 327 days follow (Billl’s axe) Fair and warmer, wind So. Mowed brush all day. Bill was up here this A.M. so Thel told me at noon. Mrs. H. called up and wanted me to get the house ready as they are coming down tonight. Jubbie piled up some brush. Thel went out tonight. …
37th day- 328 days follow Fair and cold. High wind. Mowed brush and chopped trees. Jubbie dragged out brush. Ski got my dinner today. Thel spent the day up at Eleanor’s. Quite a lot of small birds up on the hill. I saw in today’s newspaper that the child that was lost up in Carver …
36th day- 329 days follow Fair and colder. Cut trees on the new fire strip. I thought sure a twin motored plane was going to smash up, up on the hill this morning. Jubbie and I piled up brush to burn this afternoon. Took a look at the Dutton’s house and stopped in to see …
35th day- 330 days follow Mowed brush till 3 P.M. Then Jubbie and I quit on account of rain. Real warm today wind So. Miles ran away today. Ski found him up at the store. The Old Man, our cat, hasn’t been home for the last four days. I wonder if he has gone to …
34th day- 331 days follow Cold this morning, warmed up. Thel, Ski, Bud, and I went up to the sportsman’s show. We had radiator trouble going up and coming home. On the way home we went by Sears Roebucks and they were closed. We stopped at the Deaconess Hospital and inquired for John Davis. They …
33rd day- 332 days follow (Oscar) Fair and cooler. Went up on the hill this morning. Saw Mr. H., Mr. and Mrs. Bubbins. Went over to the store and got some tobacco. From there I went over to the sand bank, found nothing, took a look around the Hotel grading, found but some flakes. Went …
32nd day- 333 days follow Fair and cooler. Jubbie and I cut brush. After dinner Bill came up to the nook and put in the afternoon digging. I dug up two scrapers, snub nosed, one beautiful small red triangular point, one nice white quartz, and two fair grey felsite points. There was a fellow and …
31st day- 334 days follow Fair and warm. Harry called me up at 8 A.M. Dragged out brush to burn. I saw a worm crawling across the driveway and a group of ants eating some bread I put out for the birds. Jubbie worked two hours. Found two lunar moth cocoons and I am going …
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