A daily journal from 76 years ago
97th day- 268 days follow (Betty Covell had a son) Fair + Cool Raked up the lawns up around the house and planted some bulbs and wheeled some wood out of the grove. Betty Covell (Sander) had her second child at 8 A.M., a boy this time. Now she has one of each. Thel, Helen …
96th day- 269 day follow Arrowheads Rain + Clearing P.M. I don’t think I ever saw it rain harder than it did today. Rode my wheel up to the hill this afternoon. I found a dead partridge close to the buckwheat patch up on the hill. It had been killed right on the edge of …
95th day- 270 days follow Fair + Warm Rolled all the good lawns both ways and in the afternoon I cleaned up the flower beds up by the house. Geo. Crowell came up on the hill this afternoon for a few minutes. He said that the Boss had bought a house in Florida. Stopped in …
94th day- 271 days follow Rain + Cool. This was a miserable day. This morning I rode over to town with Eleanor. I got a haircut + some shaving soap and razor blades. After dinner I stopped in to see Pic as I went to work. Finished painting the window screens. I saw a cock …
93rd day- 272 days follow Skeleton Fair + Mild This morning I rode my wheel over to the Nook to help the gang take out the skeleton. Charlie Sherman was the only one there, so he and I started in to dig a seven foot square to give us plenty of room at about 11A.M. …
92nd day- 273 days follow (Planted Annuals) (Arrowheads) Planted some of my annual seed in the cold frames. Mowed the green up at the house. After dinner I built a clothes yard for Thel and Ski. And burned up a lot of rubbish in the incinerator. Bill came up about 3:30 P.M. and he took …
91st day- 274 days follow Fair + Cool Mowed lawns all day and there was a lot of it I had to go over the whole thing twice. Don’t think I ever mowed so early in the season before. Bill came up on the hill and he said he was over at the Nook watching …
90th day- 275 days follow Cloudy + Cooler Took the soil from around the roses and finished up the cold frames, put in the rest of the day wheeling wood out of the grove. Stopped in to see Pic on the way home from work. She and Eric were in bed, though Pic was feeling …
89th day- 276 days follow Fair + Mild I feel a little better today. I have had three intestinal grippe very unpleasant. Worked on my cold frames today. Victoria is down with the same trouble. I am just getting over. Victoria has the intestinal grippe today so Thel brought Anne over to Ski’s and Eric …
88th day- 277 days follow Fair + Warm Saw the owl again today + a chipmunk, a butterfly and a red squirrel. Thel and Grandma, Eleanor, Ski, Marie, and Suzanne went on a picnic up at Bartlett Pond in Darby. I got a toaster for Thel for an Anniversary present. Finished up raking the flower …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 