A daily journal from 76 years ago
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and cool wind east. Put a skylight in the roof of my shop up at the hill. Worked some in the garden. Some of my onions are getting ripe, and picked two ripe tomatoes. Claire Driscoll came down with a friend from Washington to get some dope on archeology. …
ToDay is the Birthday of Showers today, wind So. Put weed killer on poison ivy. Went after swamp blueberries with Milt and Jubbie, we went up to my old swamps on the Blanchard Road. I got about 5 quarts and they got a little over 3 quarts each. When I got home, Claire Driscoll and …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Went to drill tonight, and we marched over to the Green and drilled there, the firstt ime for a good many years. Just as I came out of the Armory, there was a blackout so I came home on foot in the dark. Thel went …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Planted beans for the second time on the same plot up on the hill. Mrs. H. said she was going up to Gardner to be present when Richard Greenwood's factory was presented with the Navy E. After supper, Walder and I went up to the …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot wind West. I saw the four Australian boys up on the hill this morning. Taught them how to pitch horseshoes. And I got their autographs. They are a very nice appearing bunch of boys. Pulled up my bean vines on the hill and hope to plant a …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Thel and I fished this morning. I caught a bass and lost it. Milt and Jubbie went fishing and had a bass and a big pickerel. I had no luck. The swimming was great and we all enhoued it a lot. Rained a little last …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Eleanor brought me to work this morning. Wilt and Jubbie came in at noon and we put a bed on his truck and went down to the camp. We went by the way of Jordan and Long Pond Road. I got a couple of strikes …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind West. Charlie Fraser was up on the hill making a bookcase. We cut off some more of the privit hedge. Mrs. H read me a letter from Martha and she seems to be enjoying camp life. We went down to the camp tonight and I tried …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, wind So. Chet and I cut down the hedge around the rose garden and it looks pretty good. Mrs. H read me a letter from Harry's wife and it was very interesting. Ski got a shot at a woodchuck over by Walders. Wilt, Jubbie, and Eleanor went …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and hot, Wind So. Worked on the hedges around the rose garden. Mrs. H told me that Elisha Atkins is in Bud's company as a junior officer to Bud. Eleanor took me over to the Armory tonight. We marched up back of town thru the cemetery to Summer St, …
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