A daily journal from 76 years ago
10th day - 355 days follow Temp 4 Clear and very cold. Burned brush all day and it sure is damn hard work pulling limbs out from under 7 or eight inches of frozen snow. This afternoon I took a run over to H.H. greenhouse and it sure did make me feel good to see …
9th day - 356 days follow Temp 24 Cloudy and mild weather. This morning I went down to the Beach Club and punched a hole in the ice in the pump then boiled the water out with a bucket after I got the water low enough I tuended on the pool drain valve from the …
8th day - 357 days follow Temp 25 Cloudy all day, rained last night then froze and all the grass, shrubs, and trees are coated with ice, if the sun comes up tomorrow morning it will be a beautiful sight. Thel got a tel call at noon and there was a fire up at Toots, …
7th day - 358 days follow Temp 30 Easterly wind and a snow storm. We got up late this morning and right after breakfast someone called me up and asked me to stay here as he would be here in a few minutes. A few minutes later Eleanor got a call and it was from …
6th day - 359 days follow Temp 10 Clear and Cold light wind. Took a wheelbarrow full of magazines and papers down to the foot of the drive for the pick up tomorrow morning. Finished the new sign and put it up at the foot of the drive. Percy and I went over to the …
5th day - 360 days follow Temp 15 Fair and cool today. Picked up rubbish this morning. Stopped in to see Pic and Eric on the way home from work. David was taking a nap. I had a letter from Gertie, Eleanor got one from a Mrs. Wolf. The wife of one of George’s buddies …
4th day - 361 days follow Temp 32 Mild and cloudy, very light shower. Thel and Helen Griffin went on a trip to I rode over to town with Thel and went into the bank and paid my state income tax, after I paid it I went up to Dr Douglas’s and he refilled my …
3rd day - 362 days follow Temp 8 Fair and cold. John Finney’s men were up again today and they carried the stumps to the dump Got a letter from Fuller Hammond, they expect to pay some dividends this year. Eleanor went over to Dr. Beers and had her baby checked up for the first …
2nd day - 363 days follow Temp 32 Fair and cooler All of the ice has gone out of the harbor. John Finney’s men Howard Wood, Fred Dreese, and Malaguti were up on the hill today hauling out the stumps of the trees that blew down in the hurricane. Thel came up on the hill …
1st day - 364 days follow Rain Temp 55 Warm and showers (Heavy) Worked up on the hill all the morning. Mr H. Mrs H and Dimp was there. Ernest was there when I first got there. Saw a weasel chase a red squirrel up a 25 foot pitch pine, the squirrel went up clear …
