January 22, 1936
"That visit or trip to the farm on New Year's Day proved an expensive one for me. In backing out of that snow uphill driveway I tore the teeth out of the ring gear. I made another trip up there to test it out not knowing what had been done. The broken pieces would be carried up in the gears which certainly told me that something was badly out of shape. They tore the rear end down at Scot's and put me in a new differential to the tune of $44.
Lots of snow and fairly cold this month. Saw my ducks two times this month. I approached withing fifty feet of them. They paid no attention to the dogs only a few feet from them on the bank. They seem to be in one favorite stretch of shallow, quiet, riffle.
This has been my forenoon off. It snowed to blizzard standard. Cleared for a while this afternoon but strong wind continuing to blow bits of snow in a rapidly falling temperature. Now, at 9:00 p.m. it is more than 10 below zero - a terribly bitter night and my old hound dog is out in it somewhere on a courting spree. I let him out last night and as yet he has not returned (Note: He came in about 10 o'clock).
Yesterday, Ella saw sparrows, red birds, wren and blue bird on our window sill eating corn crumbs and suet."
January 22, 1936
D.C. Richard's Journal
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