A daily journal from 76 years ago
227th day= 139 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Cool After dinner I rode my wheel up to the Browne ig, and I think I ought to have had a rabbit’s foot for luck, for all I found was one small cherd [shard] of nontempered pottery and the quartz pieces of arrowheads. On the way home …
226th day- 140 days follow Partly Cloudy Worked all day trimming shrubs on the bowling green and pool garden. George came down at 5:15 P.M. and took me up to his house where Thel was for supper. When we got back from there Ski and Bud were here. They had been doing some grading inside …
225th day- 141 days follow Showers today. Jubbie didn’t come to work this A.M. on account of the rain. I worked on the gutters all day. Mrs. H. + Martha are in Boston. After supper Thel,Cozette and Grandma Holman took a ride out to Kingston and back. The Lane Company sure are tearing up the …
224th day- 142 days follow Fair + Hot Jubbie and I worked all day on the gutters. After supper Thel took me up to John Davis’s and I stayed there and talked to John while Thel and Jamie went up to Manomet to look at piece of furniture and Thel bought it.
223rd day- a43 days follow Fair + Cooler I got my new tax bill today. The new valuation on my lot at the camp is $600.00 and the building $200.00. Grandma Holman was here all day. Eleanor and the kids were here when I got home from work. Thel and I went down to the …
222nd day- 144 days follow Fair + Cooler Jubbie worked all day on the front drive gutter. Watered the lawns and gardens all day. Worked in the house all the evening. Found a mouse nest in the clothes closet, 8 young ones and two old ones and I caught one later. Bud and Ski were …
221st day- 145 days follow Fair + Cool. Wind West George came and got me this morning and I had dinner with them. George and I had several games of horseshoes. I won. I came home with Thel when she got through working. Ski took a horseback ride after she got home from work.
220th day- 146 days follow (Arrowheads) After dinner I rode my wheel to the Browne Site and dug for 3 hours. I found one white quartz hammer stone, three broken white quartz triangular heads, poor. Saw Mrs. Griffin there, she asked me how deep the loam was so I took a stick and gave the …
219th day- 147 days follow Partly Cloudy. Warm We worked all day on the gutters, a tough hot job. After supper I took my 22 and hid in the grass behind Jennie Chandler’s fence. After about an hour I saw the big woodchuck in the cut off oats. I took a shot at it and …
218th day- 148 days follow Cloudy + Cool Jubbie didn’t come up on the hill till 2 P.M. He had car trouble and went from the hill back to the garage again and finally got it fixed. After supper I fed, watered, + grazed Ski’s horse, and watched the granddaddy of woodchucks over in Jennie …
