April 12, 1936
"Easter. Overcast, sun peeping through rarely, cool showers in the evening.
Roaming around the farm this forenoon. Am raking in alfalfa and sweet clover in the gray wash - and area of about an acre. Slow work but I'm doing it with three tined hoe. Also carrying and rolling wood drift in piles to burn. First sowing of alfalfa coming through ground. First fishing - no luck - not much water.
Planted a few hills of potatoes around trash hay pile. Wheat greening up wonderfully. Alfalfa also.
Ritz was watching the river intently once today. I was curious and watched too, thinking it was probably the lively movement of the willows but soon spied a muskrat pushing its way up through them. Ritz thought he would get nearer to it, then it saw him and disappeared with a resounding plosh.
Cleaned Chester's wall paper this afternoon.
Mary Ellen was with us this evening. "Upstairs, downstairs" is her chief delight, "up and down" could just reverse their meaning in her use of them at times. Climbing them with her "Me me" watching her. The floor scale in the bathroom is intriguing to her. To her they are "pounds."
"Me me" gave her a little wheelbarrow, rabbit, doll and eggs. Her grandma McConnell gave her a little wagon. Gene was down yesterday and is like a breath of fresh air and sunshine."
April 12, 1936
D.C. Richard's Journal
Roaming around the farm this forenoon. Am raking in alfalfa and sweet clover in the gray wash - and area of about an acre. Slow work but I'm doing it with three tined hoe. Also carrying and rolling wood drift in piles to burn. First sowing of alfalfa coming through ground. First fishing - no luck - not much water.
Planted a few hills of potatoes around trash hay pile. Wheat greening up wonderfully. Alfalfa also.
Ritz was watching the river intently once today. I was curious and watched too, thinking it was probably the lively movement of the willows but soon spied a muskrat pushing its way up through them. Ritz thought he would get nearer to it, then it saw him and disappeared with a resounding plosh.
Cleaned Chester's wall paper this afternoon.
Mary Ellen was with us this evening. "Upstairs, downstairs" is her chief delight, "up and down" could just reverse their meaning in her use of them at times. Climbing them with her "Me me" watching her. The floor scale in the bathroom is intriguing to her. To her they are "pounds."
"Me me" gave her a little wheelbarrow, rabbit, doll and eggs. Her grandma McConnell gave her a little wagon. Gene was down yesterday and is like a breath of fresh air and sunshine."
April 12, 1936
D.C. Richard's Journal
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