A daily journal from 76 years ago
183rd day- 183 days follow Light Showers, Warm Sprayed the lawns for Brown Patch today. Put some fertilizer on the pool grass. Saw a mail Red Start up on the hill. Very sticky this evening. After supper I took a look at part of Jennie Chandler’s and found nothing. Claire Driscoll came in for a …
182nd day- 184 days follow Fair + hot Mrs. H. went to Boston today. After I got home from work Thel, Cozette, Archie, Grandma H. and I went down to the canal and we went down by the Old Bourne bridge and had our supper. There was three large ships passed by us while we …
Fair. Wind East. Fine Day Trimmed edges and weeded beds all day. There was a woman up on the hill taking pictures of the garden at Noon. Thel went off on a mystery ride tonight. Huck Davis stopped for an hour or so, to talk out in front of the house tonight. The road department …
180th day- 186 days follow Fair + Hot Trimmed edges and weeded flower beds. I came home for my dinner and stopped to see Pic and the kids at noon. On my way home from work tonight I found a red wallet on Ed Manter’s lawn at the corner. It belonged to Jeannette Whitely of …
179th day- 187 days follow Cloudy + Cool Eleanor called for me this A.M. and I went up to her house and had dinner. George worked over at the stand this A.M. After Thel got through for the day Thel and I and Geo. and Eleanor and the two kids took a ride up to …
178th day- 188 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Cooler Saw Mr. H, Mrs. H., Geo. Crowell, Mary G. and Sally on the hill this A.M After dinner I went up to Browne dig. Dug and all I got was one tiny chard of pottery. While I was on my knees hoeing there was a steady …
177th day- 189 days follow Cloudy and hot Jubbie and I worked down on the drive. The folks got down on the hill tonight. Worked all the evening on the screens and screen doors. Sat up and listened to the Joe Lewis and Joe Wolcott heavyweight championship fight. Joe Lewis won by a knockout in …
176th day- 190 days follow Rain + Hot The young hummingbirds have left their nest. Jubbie and I worked cleaning up the front drive. After supper I got the screen doors out of the cellar and painted the screen parts. I hope the Joe Lewis fight comes on tonight. It was postponed last night on …
175th day- 191 days follow Rain + Cool Jubbie worked all day. He and I started to clean up the front drive. After supper Ski and I hitched up the horse and took a ride up by Russell Mills and around by the Whipple’s and back by Bubbins’s. I see that there is a television …
174th day- 192 days follow Partly Cloudy Jubbie worked all day. Fred Moon was up on the hill all day. Martha and her boy friend were around today. Fire Chief Wood called me up for another donation. I thought that another woodchuck was eating the flower bed at the end of the house, so I …
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