A daily journal from 76 years ago
Burned up rubbish all day. Archie, Bubbie, Henry, and I went over to the Polo game tonight. It was a fine game. Plymouth lost by a score of 12 to eleven. It was snowing when we came home. Thursday, Feb. 18, 1949 About two inches of snow on the ground this morning. I tracked the …
Cloudy + Mild The partridges are still around up on the hill. Two of them were by the brush pile. Bramhall was up to read the meter. I saw six marsh quail in the willow tree in the valley. Tom Doten and Sirrico and Beals were burning grass over on Meyer’s this afternoon so I …
(Arrowhead) Fair + Mild George came in after supper and he and I played five games of cribbage, he won three. I hunted in Briggs’ on the way home and found only one poor triangular white quartz point. Gary came out and hunted with me. I saw a pair of robins up on the hill. …
Partly Cloudy + Warm This has been another swell day. This has been Thel’s day off. She took Grandma Holman for a ride this afternoon. Bill came up on the hill at four P.M. this afternoon and he gave me a ride home. I went over into Fraser’s yard + looked over the piles of …
Fair + Warm What a day wonderful, as warm as a day in May. Worked in my garage cleaning up some this morning, and some in the afternoon. Geo was here this morning, and he took Grandma Holman’s pup over to town and gave it away for her. Thel and I went up to Eleanor’s …
Fair + Cool I saw two robins and two flickers up on the hill. This is the third winter there has been a large owl up on the hill in the red pines by the blackberry patch. I happened to wonder this morning if it had come back this winter, so I went + looked, …
43rd day- 322 days follow Fair + Cold Snowed about two inches last night. Burned up rubbish all day. My three footed rabbit came out of the woodpile and had a feed off the parsley bed. Arthur Sirrico was up on the hill this afternoon. Gary is up tonight over at Ski’s. He is staying …
42nd day- 323 days follow Cloudy + Mild Did some house cleaning up on the hill this morning, raked up in the afternoon. Grandma Holman has a canary and it is a very good singer. After supper Henry, Bubbie, Archie, and I went over to the polo game and Plymouth lost to Worcester 13 to …
41st day- 324 days follow (Ski + Bud) Fair + Warm Raked all day and piled up the rubbish. Thel said she won $5.10 playing poker last night. Grandma Holman came down here with her block dog to live. Slept here tonight. Ski + Bud slept over in their house for the first time tonight.
40th day- 325 days follow Fair + Warm This has been one of the kind of days you read about, wonderful. I saw a flock of thirty-five cedar waxwings up on the hill, also a spider spinning a web, a wooly bear caterpillar and a stink bug. There are lots of myrtle in bloom on …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 