July 13 - 16, 1974

Saturday, July 13, 1974

This is been a beautiful day, on the hot side. I baked beans, done a dite of cooking. Billie and Walt over to Twitchell’s to look at tractors and equipment. In p.m. Billie went up to Chet’s to mow hay for Lawrence. I went down to Betty’s to stay with Zak while they went to Hiram to an auction. Carmen and Zenya swimming.

Sunday, July 14, 1974 HOT HOT

Today I got my work done up, did a dite of washing. Billie went up to Chet’s and mowed. In p.m. he got his hay all in. Walt and his truck. Bill also, and George Drisko helped too. He got about 325 bales of good hay in the new barn. In p.m. we went over to Weldon and Lida’s new place, formerly Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis’ home. They had opened house. It is a beautiful home, everyone liked it very much. They had a lot of relatives and neighbors in to see it.

Monday, July 15, 1974  KITTEN, VERY HOT

Today Betty, Zak and I went to Scarbrough to Kmart, done some shopping for Walt’s birthday. Dropped in to Portland for a little while. Betty got a new kitten. We ran into a bad shower at Raymond.

Tuesday, July 16, 1974

Kind of a partly cloudy day but not too hot. Today I went to Denmark, Naples with Betty in a.m. In p.m. went to town and South Harrison. For work here, I washed, gave the bathroom a cleaning, picked peas and ironed. Betty here, also the kids. Kimberly had a little girl playing with her today, Tricia Barton. She had a good time. Carmen and Zenya went swimming. Tonight Esther and Cliff arrived home from Ohio. They had a wonderful time, a nice trip.