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March 16 1978 - Thursday - Treasure Cay - Beautiful Day Sun is getting warmer - I'm getting sun blisters - too careless when walking beach. Played golf - back nine - greens being watered - decided to go for 18 - finished 11:30. Had a beer - lunch - nap - phoned Mackey to cancel Saturday flight (Mackey hasn't run since Monday) had a drink with Smyths - arranged charter plane on Saturday at 2 pm. Grouper from end of dock. 1979 - Friday - 11º at 5:45 - clear - Breakfast for first time at drop leaf table in dining room - different view of outdoors. Relocated squirrel at rectory grounds enroute 7:30 Mass. Wes to Al's Hardware, bank & Marcus. I worked at greenhouse 10 to noon, bought gas coming home (73.9 gal) Lunch and nap. Hung pictures in livingroom. Butler's tray table returned by Thomas McCaffrey finally - looks good. Wes hobbied, I shortened guest room draperies. 1980 - Sunday - 10º at 6 AM. Fair - up to 40º in afternoon. To 8 o'clock Mass. Cleaned house. Chipped more icy snow from taxus at entrance. Watered the four potted bulbs in shed. To Billie Newell's at 4 o'clock to watch Doral Golf Nicklaus lost during Sudden Death Playoff. From there to Stoddards at 6:30 - dinner - admired her oriental rugs. 1981 - Monday - 35º at 6:15. Cloudy - Wes had haircut - to Basics - drug store - I did house chores and prepared for houseguests of St Mary's Chamber Singers. Glad we looked at site yesterday as too cold and windy to stay outdoors today. At 5:30 to Ridgefield Community Center - had supper with the Dame/St Mary group - brought Ann Morningham and Cathy Curran - Senior & Sophomore - of Chicago - home for night. 1982 - Tuesday - 28º at 6:15. Clear over hill for beautiful sunrise but lots of cloud - partly sunny morning - clouded up in afternoon - hail and a little snow at night. Wes worked on shelf at shop/garage doors and went to bank, Marcus - Basics - had car washed, I sprayed plants - checked on lettuce - survived the cold night - Moved small stones near front door - lifted beech trees on woods path and chipped the branches March 17 1978 - Friday - Treasure Cay - Beautiful morning, became cloudy later with a high wind and much cooler: played golf early - brought in clubs - did wash - lunch - nap - to Post Office (no mail) left forwarding address. Read - walked - cocktail - rest of Grouper for dinner - delicious. Lots of families and young children arriving for Easter vacation. Packed golf bags and laid out rest of clothes. 1979 - Saturday - 29º at 5:45 - Cloudy morning - sun about 2 pm - (Squirrel count including yesterday 19) no trap out today. To Danbury Meekers for spagnum moss and red onions - Wes's pill prescription renewed - drug store - Sears for plant light - glass for my bathroom medicine chest shelf - After lunch Wes hung light in celler but it wouldn't work - I washed livingroom draperies - ironed then hung two - also finished second guestroom drapery. Had corned beef & cabbage etc. and Irish coffee for dinner. 1980 - Monday - 30º at 6 AM. Cloudy - rain late afternoon - heavy at night. I went to Ridgefield - Irish whiskey - few groceries - left Molly Ketcham's Tete-a-Tete daffodils at her door - to Edith Meffley's for meeting on December Flower Show at Aldrich - home at 1 o'clock for lunch - nap - we washed car - filled feeder - Mallards returning for corn - have to chase Green's geese. 1981 - Tuesday - 21º at 6:15. Fair and cold. Cathy and Ann (St Mary girls) with us. Took them to Ridgefield High School for 8:30 Concert - good but poor audience. We left at 11:30 for Poughkeepsie - Jule took us to lunch at her "Tuazata" Club - corned beef and Irish coffee - to her apartment for a talk. Home at 4:30. Heavy snow flurry at 5:15 - glad not traveling in it. 1982 - Wednesday - 29º at 6:15 - Coating of icy snow. Sun 6:05 - 6:04. Icy rain continued - temperature 33º so we phoned Jule we wouldn't drive to Poughkeepsie. Had our own St Patrick's Day Celebration - corned beef - Irish coffee. Sleet turned to snow - not much accumulation but a cold dreary day
