May 1907

May 1, 1907  Wed.  Plesant  Cold for the first day    finished up whe wood    Hard wood   now the soft wood to be piled up

May 2  Thurs.  Plesant    went to Keene to day   Dora & Angie & My self   My bill was for goods was $7.25   car fair 60 c   Dora trading for Angie   good bill

May 3   Fri.  Plesant  Cleaned up the yard    Dora went a Maying   got a good lot of flowers   Hens lay good   angie went to School

May 4   Sat.  Rainy  most all day   Ernest is hard up with the Piles    gon to bed   it is cold to day

May 5  Sun.  Plesant    Cold morning   frost hard   Boys went to sunday School   Dr Burns come in to see Ernest   little better   Hens lay well

May 6  Mon.  Rain   Cloudy rain till noon   Ernest went to the store for a few hours

May 7  Tues.  Cloudy   Kennedy had his auction to day    Things went well   one cow went for $56.00   Horses $420.00

May 8  Wed.  Plesant   all well and doing very well    Got 31 chickens   all in good shape  doing well    Hen come off with 11 chicks

May 9  Thurs.  Plesant   Wheeled wood    iled it up in the yard    Dora cleaned the Pantry  big job  hard one

May 10   Fri.  Plesant   Finished my wood Pile   got the Hens shut up   they try the fence holes    Why are bound to get out   got  31  chicks

May 11   Sat.  Snow & cloudy   Snowed till noon   thare was enough snow for 6 inches but it melted as fast as it come      on the hills it Stayed till Night

May 12   Sun.  Plesant   Boys & Angie went to Sunday School    Ernest   Dora & Angie gone for a walk    I am reading the Papers

May 13   Mon.  Plesant   Wash day   got done at 9 oc   Dora cleaned her setting room before noon   Big fire in the woods

May 14   Tues.  Plesant  Sent emma $1.00 for Lydia decoration day   Paid Ernest $1.00 fir Shirts    all well    Dora had a letter from  Emma   Edd is failing

May 15   Wed.  Plesant   geting ready to go up to Haverhill Tomorrow    geting a little warmer    the fire is most all out

May 16   Thurs.  Rainy   Ernest & myself DW come to Haverhill to day  M B Meader met us at Newbury     landed safe and sound (Moses Blood Meader is Web’s younger brother)

May 17  Fri.  Plesant   I am at Mose    Marys Company come from the west & I went up to Marlins. (  Marlin is his nephew.  He is Paul’s son)

May 18  Sat.  Cloudy   Marlin sowed 20 1/2 acre oats and drayed them   Carl worked with his Team for George Gale   Brian Hill

May 19  Sun.  Plesant   We all went to Church and Carl & minie went to Eve meeting   I went with them

May 20  Mon.  Cold  at Marlins   Boys hauled out manure with a spreader  18 loads

May 21  Tues.  Cold  Boys hauled manure   I some  reading a book   Gordon Keith

May 22  Wed.  Cold   I went with Marlin up to his Back Pasture to salt his young cattle   Boys are geting out manure

May 23   Thurs.  Cold  went to the Creamery with Marlin   Went down to see Will Clough Faimly   Stayed all Night   had a good time

May 24  Fri.  Plesant  but cold   Went to Woodsville with Helen  Mina & Boyel Gale   had a good time with 3 women

May 25  Sat.  Plesant  but cold 10 degrees below freezing   I stayed at Marlins last Night   I am now at Moses   he and I planted Potates in garding

May 26  Sun.  Cloudy   Went to Church with Grand Armey Day   good serman from Mr Eaton  it rains some to day

May 27  Mon.  Cloudy and rain   Mary washed   Mose & Web worked on fence

May 28  Tues.  Cloudy and cold   not sun  to day   Mose & Web worked on fence stringing wire   it is very cold

May 29  Wed.  Cold   Cloudy   Mose & Web made fence all day

May 30  Thurs.   Cloudy & cold  made fence   finished it all up   Mary got 20 chickens   Mose bought 25 more of Moses A  ( Moses Avery Meader is Webs Uncle who lived in CA for many years)

May 31  Fri.  Cloudy   A little warmer   Went down made a call on Mr Fisher Folks and  he played the Fiddle  went good   worked Moses garding

Web is back in Haverhill and happy as a lark.  He will stay there for the summer.  This is where he would rather be, he can keep busy and be useful.  He got to visit all of his relatives and friends.

About Carol (Ouma) Petts

I am a retired teacher. I have taught all levels from kindergarten through college and have been retired now for over 20 years. The last ten years we have lived on a farm and lived off the land, growing our own food and canning for our extended family. Now we have sold the farm and are moving to Florida to truly retire. I guess I have always had a short attention span as this is our 11th move. We have moved from a small farm in New Hampshire, to more city type living, small business adventures, focusing more on traveling, Florida living, Georgia, and Tennessee farming and now back to Florida. My blog is a way to keep my children up to date on what I am doing and letting them know I am still alive and well. My children are spread across the country from New England to Florida, Nova Scotia to New Mexico and CA and several places between, They let me know what they are up to by commenting on my blog but they are so busy with their own lives most times I have to assume " no news is good news". Now I are starting on a new adventure so will try to give daily updates until we get settled into a routine. Then I know even if I am getting older and should settle down I will start looking for some new and exciting adventure to start. Welcome aboard. Norman died Oct 30, 2017 so I am continuing the journey alone with the aid of my children, grand children and great grand children. At present I am living with my daughter and we are 7 in one house and cover four generations. We range in age from 7 to 85 and are finding common ground, we are living proof that multi generations can live and function in a three bedroom house if they really want to. Soon my grandson will have his house built next door so we all will have a room of their own except for the seven year old twins who by choice will share a room.
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