A daily journal from 76 years ago
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 …
173rd day- 193 days follow Fair + Warm Jubbie worked all day today. Worked in the cutting gardens. Martha and her boy friend were on the hill today. His car is licensed in Ill. Fred Moon was on the hill all day. The hummingbird has started to set on her eggs. Archie sent over a …
172nd day- 194 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Warm This has been a fine day. This morning I rode my wheel up to Bubbins’s plowing and I hunted that and found nothing. From there I rode to the Browne Site and dug till noon. I found four triangular white quartz arrowheads all good, three white …
171st day- 195 days follow (Arrowheads) Rain most all day Rained so hard today, Jubbie and I cleaned the whole barn. When I was coming home at noon Dave and Dot came along. I got in the car with them and we all visited Pic and her new baby for ½ an hour. After I …
70th day- 196 days follow Fair + Warm Sent up all I could find in the shape of flowers to Brookline by Ovid, for Martha’s party. Thel came up on the hill for me when I got thru work tonight. Thel, Archie, Cozette, Roger, and I took a ride down to my camp and we …
169th day- 197 days follow Fair + Warm This A.M. I cut five buckets full of flowers and Orvid took them up to the Brookline Country Club for decorations for Martha’s coming out party tomorrow. After dinner Jubbie came up and said Mrs. H. wanted him to come up to Boston with the car that …
168th day- 198 days follow Fair + Warm Jubbie didn’t come up to work today. This is the second day of the Garden Club Party and there was a lot of people showed up. Mrs. Crowell and Mrs. Carol Howland were hostesses today. Bill Gault was the officer for parking today. Thel and I stayed …
