July 12 - 17, 1955 Mama's Birthday

Tuesday, July 12, 1955

Nice day still cool. Ironed. They finished up the haying tonight. Dorothea came up tonight. Thena Allen called.

Wednesday, July 13, 1955

Dorothea here for supper. Dorothy Prescott called. Had an awful fight tonight the kids. I clean up the house.

Thursday, July 14, 1955

I did up the housework. Aunt Ava called in evening, also Fern and Lloyd.

Friday, July 15, 1955

Nice day. I churned, washed, cooked. Dorothea came up about noon, made a birthday cake for her grandmother. In evening Aunt Ava, Uncle Lewis, Fern, Lloyd and Uncle Os and Robert here for evening, birthday cake etc. Mama felt better today. She got nice gifts. Ironed in eve. Kids fight too much.

Saturday, July 16, 1955

Rain today. I did up the work. Kennard called. We went to town, also stopped to pay Gordon Sanborn for bailing hay $67.00. Kennard got caught by state cop driving his car tonight while drinking, took him to town in jail to get sobered off.

Sunday, July 17, 1955

Very hot. I didn’t do much. Billie mowed lawns. At supper time we had a steak cookout, Fern and family up. Milan, Norma and Ronald called, brought Blanche back from Connecticut. Bill, Betty, Kennard and I took Delores back to camp.