May 16 - 19, 1964

Saturday, May 16, 1964

A very nice beautiful day. On the very warm side. Billie up early and got his chores done and left at 5 AM to go to Vermont with Dave Thomas. Betty and I up early and went to Portland to get Blanche. Carmen went too. Came home, done up all the work. Fern, Lloyd called. Worked in the woods today. Mr. Vose called saying they was going to appraise the house.

Sunday, May 17, 1964 Planted

A beautiful day. Bill planted garden. Billie got home about 5 AM, they rode all night. Lloyd and Billie cut up the other quarter of beef. I wrapped it. Billie hurt his finger real bad. Betty up and to town to get paper. The house was appraised today $1500. Bill called at Vose. Alice and family called.

Monday, May 18, 1964

Another beautiful day. I did another one of those tremendous big wash’s today. I did my ironing and 1000 other things after supper. Betty off again (?) Still cutting timber. I went to town in a.m. with Fern and Lloyd and cleaned my blankets. Today I hung clothes out back for first time this year. Betty got a very nice letter from Mike. Only 33 days left in Old Korea. I got a gift from Dorothea.

Tuesday, May 19, 1964

A cloudy forenoon and rain in PM. They worked in the woods in forenoon. Betty worked today ironing. I didn’t do much of anything all day. Cleared off about suppertime. Bonnie came up. We had thundershowers in p.m. and during the night.