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February 29

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1980 - Friday - 6° at 6 AM - Clear - Cold windy day.  Paid bills.  I worked at Greenhouse in morning - shopped afterward.  Home at 2 for lunch and nap.  Transplanted taxies and Ilex cuttings under lights in basement.  About 6 each have root system.
To Alex and Helen's at 6:30 for a drink - then to Windmill Diner for fish dinner.
We worked in shop during day.

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March 1

1978 - Wednesday - 10° at 6:30 - Partly cloudy, predicted snow didn't arrive thank God.  Left at 9:15 for Washington there at 3:45 - Marriott Twin Bridges - Wes worked out perfect route to reach it.  Drink at Windjammer Lounge.  Dinner at S & S Livestock Co.  Phoned Mr. Pepkin.  (315 miles)

1979 - Thursday - 24° at 6 AM.  Partly cloudy - became mostly clear - high 53° at 2 pm.  Pat here.  Louise had cold so Wes & I drove to St. Catherine's Church, Riverside, to enter Louise's begonia and my Topiary Rabbit in "Preview of Spring" show - lots of people there.  On to [[?Makie]] Rug Store in Greenwich - asked questions on church rug - stopped at St Michael's Church Nort5h Street where Sister Cecilia showed us around.  Lunch of fish stew at Marmaduke's, Brooksville.  Home at 2 pm.  Wes in shop - I transplanted [[?Co]].

1980 - Saturday - 4° at 6 AM.  A very cold windy day.  Sunny in morning, cloudy in afternoon - coldest day of winter.  House chores - did colored wash - hot water pipe repairs by Wes held - lot of Garden Club telephoning for Green Finger show.  Checked tax return and paid [[?Krawchicks]].  Cooked pot roast for tomorrow when Eileen will come.  Wes worked in shop and helped clean house.

1981 - Sunday - 40° at 6 AM.  To 8 o'clock Mass.  Became fair, breezy day.  Chores and book balancing in morning.  To Breeze and Barbara Sobol's for luncheon at 12:30.  Mary Luke there.  Home at 3:30 pm.  To Bogus property - but brush preparatory to making trail for tractor to move wood to rear of lot.

1982 - Monday.  15° at 6:30.  Fair.  Sun 5:30-5:47.  Despite good sunrise it was a mostly gloomy day.  However temperature in Solar was around 69° and we left the plants there.  I went to workshop at Ballards "Gardening Under Glass" - bought meat and more peat pots to transplant the [[?Munbel]] Tomato - Cooked in afternoon.  Wes went for a haircut and to the bank and [[?Marens]].  Worked in shop.

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