September 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th 1951

Photograph by L 2008

September 17, 1951
Monday
G+ E, Tippy + I went to orchard and got several bushels of grannies for A butter. .30 cents per bu

Enjoy this neat article written about how Apple Butter making was always a Community Effort back in the day! :)
Apple Butter History


September 18, 1951
Tuesday
We washed!

September 19, 1951
Wednesday

Was we busy! I went up to town and locker for beef, F staid here + worked we worked our soup stuff till 9 o'clock We fell in bed at 10 past 10. James called was surprised to find us in bed but we don't know how tired we were!
September 20, 1951
Thursday
Got up early and flew around getting ready to go to cannery. Mom and Isabel came and helped we made 138 cans of soup good too. E. I + MJ + Isabel got of it. We were completely worn to a frazzle when we got back home.

August 28th 29th, 30th and 31st 1951

August 28, 1951
Tuesday

*Red cow

Rainy + Cloudy most all day not very good fair weather.
I finished E's dress. Wew went to 2 corn fields for beans and corn. Sent red cow to Winchester today got $256.00 for her.
He went down in PM Molly Bird is very lonesome; no one now but her and Mike.
G shot big gopher, had a good supper.
Tippy tail is healing up. Got 2 cards in the mail. My flowers are still blooming nice.

August 29, 1951
Wednesday

Had a big wash. Cut grass. Gathered in clothes ironed in PM all of them, cleaned. Sewed some was busy as 2 bees all day....was tired too. I put E hair up. She put mine up Tues eve.
Got 2 cards

August 30, 1951
Thursday

Real hot. We worked and cleaned all AM.
Got dinner and looked for Hunts, they came late. Had to get their dinner then.
We went up to the fair. Some crowd...Hot as 40!
Came back at 10pm. Tippy staid home. E went along over with Hunts for a few days.

August 31, 1951
Friday

My 49th B-day

Another warm day. Cleaned up all the dishes, mopped down stairs. Will clean up + finish varnishing chairs. Bordens coming tonite. Guess I'll be busy all day. Have gotten 6 cards up to today.
*Got 16 cards in the mail.

August 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd 1951

August 20, 1951
Monday

Busy; pickled Lima beans, gathered tomatoes, helped take hogs over in alfalfa field.
I trimmed this linoleum and worked on this clearing up.
Went back to Eva K's to meeting, while E hulled Lima Beans.

August 21, 1951
Tuesday

Busy day; E and I taken car load stuff up to cannery to can #250 cans of stuff.
I came home late and tired feet. Got supper and went to bed.

August 22, 1951
Wednesday

Tired and MORE tired from yesterday. I carried all the cans away. Straightened up and got ready to Wash. Had a big one; was busy as a bee all day.

We put plastic on couch that G worked over. E made 9 cans beet pickles for Audrey.

August 23, 1951
Thursday
*Tail

Aid meeting at Stella's today. E and I left at about noon. G taken Tippy up to Dr Lutz and had tail taken off. Sure was sore that nite but it will be okay.
We ironed some in the evening.

Thank you!

I want to thank you once again for your continued patience, during a looong delay of my continuing to post diary entries of the 50's farm wife!

I hope to resume soon and get caught up!


L
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August 10th, 11th and 12th 1951

August 10th Friday

Hot and MORE HOT!
Guessed we sewed most all day on dresses. I taken Mom's dress down to Margaret's to have button holes made. Cecil + Ruth came home from trip about 3pm brought me set of S + P shakers.
Slop Jars.

Got new brass alter set from Reading Pa. Flowers awful purty (*awful purty is then crossed out!)
$113.00 sure nice.
Jackson went to Richmond to Reunion.

August 11th Saturday


We canned 17 pt tomatoes then ML called said Mom was sick for me to come up; I went at 11, came back at 2:30 or 3, has cold in shoulder. E cleaned & mopped and just was resting when we came back. Went back up in evening till 9
George + Flossie + Sonny Mr. Mrs Moore was in town.
Had little rain.

August 12th Sunday
Second Sunday, the Ryman reunion at Richmond at Jim's awful hot. E, G + I went up to town G + Warren went fishing E staid at ML's Mom feeling better, still in bed. I went out to Patmos not very many at church. Came back to ML's for dinner. We taken chicken, beans, corn and lots up for dinner. Had a little shower of rain. Jackson's over at Richmond to reunion.

May 30th and 31st 1951

May 31, 1951 Thursday
Calf 5 weeks old
Fine day!
MJ called me 2:30 on way to Arlington. said F had spell of indigestion last nite, ate too much strawberry shortcake! I went up to see how he was. He was painting, but didn't feel too hot. Feeling better this PM.
G + C worked at hay all afternoon + nite. 8:30pm and not thru yet.
I pulled grass and hoed.
Phil was down, also the picture man.

May 30, 1951
Wednesday

Memorial Day
Myrtle is home now, is improving some slow.

Sun bright not so cool. Guess it will warm up now.
Washing.
G is working on wagon. Bob came C came, then C and Guy left to bale hay over at C's.
Most to damp, didn't get but 2 loads baled.
G fixed 2 tires then worked some on car.

I pulled grass from 2 rows of taters.


L's potato raised beds; Prepare bed by adding rich compost and chicken manure. Make deep trenches to plant seed potatoes (blues, reds, yellow fins, etc). As the plants grow taller, pull in the raised rows of soil around the plant. Continue to do this to allow potatoes to produce fully. You will have pounds and pounds of potatoes through late Spring and Summer.

Good time.
Florence and Terry went to Detroit.
Nice day!
Commencement exercises at TB tonite. Ralph S graduates.

May 23rd 1956

May 23, 1956
Wednesday

G plowed his one field of corn this AM (2.5 acres)

Cloudy for rain

G has gone back up for meat, hasn't come home yet. It's rained some already; I pulled grass from beets and carrot rows (for hog pen).
Dampened clothes and popped big pan of corn to eat.
G came home; we worked on meat. I packed 11 glass jars. He cut up the head; then we cut the lard.
He went to store for cans in the evening. I filled 18 cans of sausage + sealed them.
Washed up everything, 9:30 when I got thru. he is asleep on couch.


Rainy all day.

May 22nd 1951

May 22, 1951
Tuesday

Hog weighed 412lbs

Karen Lee's 9th B-day

G went up for meat. Hadn't butchered him yet, he was up at the locker got some beef.
I worked in garden some got ready for the meat business.

Ironed about 1/2 the clothes, patched 3 pr pants done lots of jobs.

In evening went along up to women of the church with Mabel got home at 11.
G put cultivator on tractor to plow corn.

May 18th 1951

May 18, 1951
Friday

*Note at top of page; 7am CORN
*Note at top of page; WRECK

Cloudy all day and cool. I worked in garden + yard planted row glads hoed out weed over in other garden.
Phil helping G plant corn 7am; was here for dinner.
G gone up to help Phil on his patch.



Louise C had another wreck on Fishers Hill. Killed she + Anna S of Strasbury almost instantly. One month less 2 years after the first one that killed Katie C...she is thru now. Hurt the other people in the other car. Headon.

May 16th 1951

May 16th 1951
Wednesday

Another fine day about 90 in the sun.
G was working over his ground till about 2, then he ate dinner then went to tend to some business up town. Went fishing in the evening and caught 8 perch.

*I plowed some in the garden.
M.L. had Dr's down to see about her back, he can help her. Put corset on.