A daily journal from 76 years ago
196th day- 169 days follow Cloudy. Cooler Mowed lawns and trimmed shrubs. After supper I went over to Walder’s and he and I shot 3 rounds of archery. I won all of them. I averaged a seven for every arrow. Russ Snow came over just as we got through shooting. Pic and Walder went out …
195th day- 170 days follow Fair + Hot Rained a little this forenoon. Put in all day working on the cutting garden, and it looks fine now. I went over and did some more shooting, we shot four rounds. I won them. I heard Dot Dunlap is pretty sick at home. I got the chairs …
194th day- 171 days follow Trimmed hedges all day. Walder and I did some archery shooting tonight. Eleanor took me up to work at noon.
193rd day- 172 days follow Fair + Hot Weeded and trimmed the cutting garden hedge. Saw the young rabbits today. Finished up working on the back porch. After supper I went over to Walders and he and I shot four rounds. I won 3 rounds. My score was 202-202-200-208. While we were shooting Magee, Mr. …
192nd day- 173 days follow Fair + Warm I saw young rabbits, chipmunks, and red squirrel around my shanty. Watered and trimmed hedges today. Geo. + Eleanor came down tonight and took our rubbish to the dump. After supper I fixed up the railing on our back porch. I am listening to the Red Sox …
191st day- 174 days follow Cloudy + Cooler, Windy Got up early and had my breakfast then cleaned up the camp. Then I started to work on the Privy + tool house, and at 2:30 I had finished papering and reinforcing it. At 3 P.M. it started to rain lightly, the first for most two …
190th day- 175 days follow Fair + Warm Saw Harry, Bud, their wives and all their children up on the hill this A.M. Mick Swift came here at noon to see about painting this house. After dinner Thel took me down to the camp. I went out fishing for a while before supper, caught some …
189th day- 176 days follow Fair + Warm Eleaor and the girls were down here for dinner. She went over to town and got my watch. She told me that George and she have bought a second hand car. It is a beach wagon. The bass is doing fine. He or she has an enormous …
188th day- 177 days follow Fair + Cooler Fine day to work. Watered all day and did chores. The bass ate 22 worms and a large pollywog at one meal and some time today he got a grip on another robin’s tail and pulled it out. He has already drowned two. I ate supper with …
187th day- 178 days follow Fair and Hot Cleaned out the pool and trimmed the hedges. Saw quail on the hill three times today. Mickey came over after dinner and fired up his job. I won’t miss what he did too much. Geo. Stef came for me at 6 P.M. and we picked up Bobbie …
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