A daily journal from 76 years ago
26th day- 340 days follow Fair + Cold A lot of snow up on the hill. The kids were sliding on the front drive yesterday. Oehme came up on the hill after Mrs. H’s rudder to her sail boat. Big bunch of kids sliding on the front drive this afternoon. Thel took the cars out …
25th day- 341 days follow Snow Flurries + Cloudy. Stopped snowing hard this A.M. Dug out around the house, saw the minister and he said he is having a fellow down from Boston some time in Feb. to give a talk on archery to the fellowship. Took a walk up on the hill to check …
24th day- 342 days follow Cold + Snowstorm Started snowing about 10:00 A.M. when I was up on the hill. I stopped in to Walder and Pic’s on my way back at noon. They had a back flash last night at midnight in their furnace and it filled the cellar and the house full of …
23rd day- 343 days follow Cloudy + Cold Put out some more feed for the birds up on the hill. After Thel and I and Margory went down to Wareham and went shopping for groceries. There isn’t half as much snow there as we have. We picked up the eggs at Chas Phinney’s on the …
22nd day- 344 days follow Fair + Light Snow Warmer The front drive up on the hill was glare ice this A.M. I never saw it any slippier than the roads were this morning. We had two inches more snow this afternoon. Thel got the car out after dinner and she went up and got …
21st day- 345 days follow Snow + Rain Two inches of snow when I got up this morning, turning to rain. There is a heck of a lot of water on the Avenue between Picks’ and Cliff St. The drain is plugged. I see Dutton has to have his wrecker come up every morning to …
Fair + Cool The kids are still having a swell time coasting on the front drive. Got a post card from Mrs. H. She wanted mileage on the two cars in the barn. I sent the answer by post card tonight. Still lots of snow on the trees. The radio predicts warmer for tomorrow. I …
19th day- 347 days follow Fair + Cold Dug all this morning. Steve Treglawn came over. He had been trailing someone through the snow who had walked right through four sashes of his cold frames over by the greenhouse. He lost the trail on the hill So. West of my barn on the hill. He …
18th day- 348 days follow Snow + Clearing Woke up at 3 A.M. and it was snowing like time. Geo. came in while we were at breakfast. Ski, George + I took a ride up to the store and got some stuff, then we let George off at Rubin Leach’s and I got off at …
17th day- 349 days follow Warm + Plain Dug out the barn so Mrs. H. could get her car out. She called me up this A.M. and said she is coming down on the noon train. The Crowell kids were sliding on the front drive. Thel and Ski went to Brockton this afternoon on a …
