A Note to my followers: I am still recovering from surgery, which explains the Gramesly Journal not being posted. I hope to Start this new year with several posts every week. The postings began with a post on my Grandmother Marie's 125 Birthday and a post 100 years ago as well. As there was a huge gap in 1915, I picked up and started from 1900. The two entries are now 11 years apart.
January 1892
1. Friday. 7 AM. Ther 50. 54. 20 = 41 1/2
Mostly cloudy. Very red before sunrise. Furious S. wind all night. Dashes of light rain about 8 A.M. Plastering in E room room up stairs fell after breakfast nearly catching the children who were all three playing up there. Maurice Burgner got his last posts. I did not count them. Bought oysters and a rabbit. Sprinkle rain occasionally. High south wind all day changing to west before dark about two inches snow before 9 P.M. Trade light H.G. made eggnogg [sic] Go bed Midnight
Note: Charles is 50; Tue is 36; Margaret is 14; Phebe is 12 and Marie is 5
January 1903
1. Thursday. 7 AM. Ther 15 38. 32 = 28 1/3
Clear S.E. wind. Dick returns my shotgun A.M and works two hours at cleaning out furnace room &c. Pay W.E. Hill a/c AM. 9.23 K. ch. Think there is mistake. Dick has taken 2 cd. wood to saw and split for me and began on it before noon. Self quit tobacco for sure last night and feel quite drowsy this morning. Dick cleans out stable P.M. but didn't cut any more wood. He worked 3 1/2 hours today besides sawing some wood which is by the job. Mostly clear day, SE wind: more cloudy toward, and light rain after dark. Marie spends the night at the Stones. Phebe at ball. Tue over at Groves till 11. Self gobed 830 P.M.
I am enjoying the journal posts very much! Thank you for sharing them!
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