A daily journal from 76 years ago
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 …
107th day- 258 days follow Arrowheads Cloudy + Cool George, Marie, + Suzanne were in here this morning. The kids had an egg hunt. Moved Charlie Sherman’s lumber out of the way. I took a ride with Geo. and the girls down to JB’s corner. After dinner Thel gave me a ride up to the …
106th day- 259 days follow Fair + Warmer Mowed lawns all this A.M. After dinner, Thel, Grandma H, I, Eleanor, Marie and Suzanne took a ride down to the camp. It was fine down there. The pump worked fine, and I put my boat in the pond and it didn’t leak hardly at all. The …
105th day- 260 days follow Foggy Cool Mowed lawns and worked on the flower beds. I saw a rabbit down on the front drive and a hen pheasant up by the house. Bill came up on the hill this A.M. with his grandson. My seedling in the cold frames are coming up. Roy Holman’s …
104th day- 261 days follow Rain + Cooler Rained hard this .M. Did some work in the barn. There seems to be a lot of crows around this Spring. Saw seven marsh quail in the valley. Turned the water on in the barn and everything seems to be O.K.
103rd day- 262 days follow Partly Cloudy + Warmer Wheeled wood out of the grove. Planted violets and Lilies of the Valley up in the clothes yard. Worked on the rose beds. Roy Holman’s wife is getting better. Transplanted a lot of stuff in the flower beds. Stopped in to see Pic and the kids …
102nd day- 263 days follow Fair + Warmer Bill came up on the hill this morning to see if I knew where the fire was last night. I didn’t, so he took me over to see it. The fire was an incendiary fire in the Plymouth Plantation house down by the Rock. It had been …
101st day- 264 days follow Put in all the morning fixing up the cold frames and planting my annual flower seed. Cleaned off some flower beds, and sowed in some grass seed under the cherry trees. Thel’s day off today and she spent it getting food ready for a club supper over at Cozette’s tonight. …
100th day- 265 days follow Fair + Cooler Adrian Whiting, a man named Fisher, and another named Garside came and got me and we went up on the hill to see if we could see the (? own). It wasn’t there. I stopped in to see Walder and the boys on my way home. Thel …
99th day- 266 days follow Showers + Cool Eleanor, Bill, Lottie, Andrew and I took a ride up to Andover to the M.A.S. semi-annual meeting. We had some swell dinner at Sailor Tom’s and thanks to Bill Tom made it on the house. In the afternoon we had some fine speakers. We went to the …
