346th day- 20 days follow Fair + Partly Cloudy Finished up digging the trench for the wire. Geo. Crowell was up on the hill this morning and we wrapped up the turkeys. Arthur Sirrico was up on the hill, the first time I have seen him to talk to since his operation. After dinner [he] …
Friday, Dec. 10, 1948
345th day- 21 days follow Fair + Cold North wind today and cold. Cleaned seven turkeys, and worked the rest of the [day] digging a trench to run an underground telephone wire from the house to my tool shop. Arthur Nickerson was doing the wiring on Ski’s house today. I saw a march quail in …
Thursday, Dec. 9, 1948
344th day- 22 days follow Cloudy + Colder This morning George and I headed up as far as the Lookout, and down over the east side of the Pine HIlls. From the Lookout, we found some wonderful deer trails, pawings and scraped trees. We came out by Snell’s bog and came back to the State …
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1948
343rd day- 23 days follow Fair + Mild Worked up on the hill till 10 A.M. when the telephone man came to line up a new job for me. While I was there George Stefani drove up and he had a doe deer in the trunk of the car. He started to hunt by Cleft …
Tuesday, Dec. l7, 1948
342nd day- 24 days follow Fair + Warm Went up on the hill this A.M. and packed up a pair of blanket covers, and sent them to Dimp. Found 3 boxes in the barn. Called up Geo. Crowell. He said it was turkeys, so I went back up on the hill and hung them in …
Monday, Dec. 6, 1948
341st day- 25 days follow Showers. Mild. Thel took George and I up to the top of the pine hills and dropped us off. We took a walk up the Lookout Road and I found plenty of deer tracks, put in a couple of hours watching deer run. Then we took a walk down …
Sunday, Dec. 5, 1948
340th day- 26 days follow Fair + Warm This has been one of the finest Dec. days on record. George picked me up at 9:30 A.M. We took a ride up to Greenwoods, looking for deer tracks. Found the tracks of not more than one there. Then we came back to this side of John …
Saturday, Dec. 4, 1948
339th day- 27 days follow Fair + Mild Trimmed up the pine tree. After dinner I took out one of Ski’s windows and put in a new pane of glass. After supper I started to go over to see Pic and Walder. I met an Air Core Soldier on the corner of Cliff St. I …
Friday, Dec. 3, 1948
338th day- 28 days follow Cloudy + Mild Today did a job I have been dreading for some time. That is taking down the large pitch pine tree that died by the rose garden. I had to climb the tree and rope the limbs so they wouldn’t fall on the roses and the hedges. After …
Thursday, Dec. 2, 1948
337th day- 29 days follow Fair + Warmer Put manure on the flower gardens till I used up all of the manure. There were flies and grasshoppers out traveling on their own power, good for Dec. After dinner Thel gave me a ride over to town and I went into Jordan’s and got a pane …
