Catching up with D.C. - September 3 and 16, 1931
"We are having soaking rains lately. So different from last season. Such bountifulness of everything to eat I have never seen. Melons everywhere for two and three cents a pound. Nice peaches 25 and 50 cents at the orchards. I have a tree of late ones in the yard. Propped its limbs to keep from breakage. It is a pretty sight - well worth the trouble setting a volunteer tree. My grapes are ripe and each day I feast on them. They taste all the sweeter when I remember as a boy I longed for them and sometimes with a group of playmates stole them from Frank Lidick's at New Guilford. I have five vines, four of them bearing.
Caught a two-pound cat fish a few days ago. I see I recorded this once. The rivers are high and muddy now.
Ritz has been sleeping at the foot of my bed. The last few nights I have put him on a bed of straw with Rowdy. I see tonight that Rowdy is old comfort for a bed. We all think it mistreating Ritz but as a bedfellow he was somewhat too restless.."
September 3, 1931
"Almost two weeks of sultry summer weather.
Almost two weeks ago we were with Chester to visit for the evening and eat melons at his father's home near Dresden. Chester came up in his car and took us down. Just as we arrived a hail storm of astounding ferocity and size marooned us at the house and cut us off from the road. We though the culvert would go out so Gene telephoned to Zanesville for her boyfriend to get us on his way to Coshocton. With much slipping the car was finally gotten to the road. We drove to Dresden and flagged the Zanesville beau there after waiting an hour in the dark."
September 16, 1931
D.C. Richard's Journal
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