A daily journal from 76 years ago
117th day- 248 days follow Rain + Fair Warmer This morning I saw more sparrows, the ones that look like a tiny quail with the white line over their eyes. The trees and the ground was alive with them for about ½ hour. We must have had a squall in the night for the lawns …
116th day- 249 days follow Fair, Windy Shower, Warmer Transplanted most all day. Carl Bolt was up on the [hill] this A.M. He had just come from the Dr’s. He had his feet bandaged up for fallen arches. He has a cold that settled in his eyes and is feeling rather miserable. I stopped in …
115th day- 250 days follow Fair + Cool Cleaned sand off the drive and cleaned up some rubbish in the grove. Painted the pool this afternoon. Saw a pair of mourning doves several times today up on the hill. This was the first working day on the Daylight Savings Time. When I got home from …
114th day- 251 days follow Fair + Cooler This morning I went up on the hill and fixed the cold frames. Thel, Ski, Gerry, I and all of George and Eleanor’s family went down to the camp. We all had dinner and Thel left to go back to work. Right after she left Sauci and …
113th day- 252 days follow Fair + Warm (Arrowheads) Walder and Pic came up on the hill just before dinner to look at the place. They gave me a ride home at noon. After dinner Bill came up and he and I took a ride out to North River Bridge, the whole place was plowed …
112th day- 255 days follow Fair + Warmer This has been a fine spring day. Finished weeding the flower beds. Thel bought a new lawn mower. Dot called up from Winthrop and said they won’t be down this weekend as planned. She said Jesse and Davene have the measles. After supper I took a walk …
111th day- 254 days follow Fair + Warmer This is the nicest day we have had. When I got home at noon Thel told me Ernest Johns had shot himself. When I was a kid there were four of the old timer lobstermen. Joseph Boutin went crazy, Frank Simmons went crazy, Charlie Pierce shot himself, …
110th day- 255 days follow Fair + Warmer Cleaned out the drains at the foot of the drive. Bud came up a few minutes before noon and gave me a ride home. The cherry trees up on the hill are beautiful. Weeded flower beds all the afternoon. A Swede won the Boston Marathon race yesterday. …
109th day- 256 days follow Arrowheads Fair + Warmer Set out some plants in the flower beds this A.M. Bill came up on the hill this A.M. He said he and Charlie had a disagreement about Indian + early whites. I took half of the holiday off, rode my wheel up to the Browne Site …
108th day- 257 days follow Cloudy + Cold Worked around the cutting garden all day. After work tonight I stopped in to see Pick and the kids. Pick has had a couple of weeks of ear ache, and she has lost eight pounds. Tomorrow in the Marathon race. I wonder if Cote will win today …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 