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April 5

1978 - Wednesday - 40º at 6 AM - sunny, beautiful morning - springlike - some rain overnight. Killed another muskrat! Zeigler here at 9 am to clean bedroom and back hall rugs. Opened windows & turned down heat. Too windy to burn. Set up heating cables in trays for cellar light. Warren Malkin (Harold Banks) delivered Banjo clock. We shopped Bethel for groceries, new mailbox - plant markers. Watched Cav & Pag on TV Channel 13 Texaco sponsor.

1979 - Thursday - 38º at 6 AM - Partly cloudy. Mallards flew away when I put out corn. Pair Wood Ducks flew in - they don't eat however - stay just a little while. To Marcus for milk - eggs 89₵  special for Easter. Pat here to clean - Worked at Greenhouse 9:15 to 11:30 - nap
Billie Newell there to look at garden - To Keeler for Craft Show - home for lunch. Wes finished frame for his model. I finished washing our pots. Too cold for outdoor work - cleared at sunset. Hobbies in afternoon.

1980 - Saturday - 40º at 6 AM .. Partly cloudy. Cleared in afternoon - cool and windy. Kept the cuttings inside breezeway.
Cleaned - polished brass & silver. - Planted leek, cabbage, broccoli
Washed car after nap. Helen & Alex dropped by.
Had first paper log fire (sterno) Burned 3 hrs.

1981 - Sunday - 40° at 6 AM. Cloudy - Rain in afternoon - light but continuing thru evening.
To 8 o'clock Mass. Paid taxes and bills. Made up account book for new home - had seen bulldozer go by so rode up to see if it was on the site but not yet. I planted one row each of dill and onions. Potted up tansy cuttings. Cut off daylilies [[day lilies]] at barn - got wet doing it. Phoned Joan & Hooker they had good trip.

1982 - Monday - 22º at 6 AM. Looks like lettuce froze in coldframe [[cold frame]] - it revived in the sunshine. The clay pots covering the plants outside the coldframe [[cold frame]] were frozen to the ground.
Tony and Helper finished the dry-wall - terrace looks good. We shopped Basics - Bethel Market - Agway  No Thistle seed. Wes cut wood. I cut down small trees over cliff. We covered lettuce against expected snow storm: beautiful sunset so hardly seems possible.

April 6

1978 - Thursday - 22 degrees at 6 AM. Fair. Pair Wood Ducks at breakfast time. Did a wash. Planted seeds in basement trays. Wes took out hemlock stump from west end. Put chips that had floated out during flood back on blueberry bushes. I racked the front of house. Wes tightened up Duck Fence  Spread fertilizer over by lawn - around house - below barn - across little bridge. Cleared sunflowers seed hulls from juniper below front terrace. 2 Mallard around.

1979 - Friday - 40 degrees at 5:45. Partly cloudy - off and on sunshine but cold and very windy - gusts to 50 MPH. Wes shot at a squirrel, but missed - later caught one but not the one who came down the chain to the birdfeeder [[bird feeder]]. To 7:30 Mass. dropping squirrel at Pleasant View Estates. Shopped Meeker, bought pitchfork for compost and prong hoe. To Bethel Agway for corn and market for groceries. Wes made an aluminum bracket for Peace Core [[Corp]]. I sewed white cotton shirt. Alex [[?]] here bought extension Golf Digest.

1980 - Easter Sunday - 28 degrees at 6 AM. Fair - beautiful day - sunny and mild high 60 degrees. To 8 o'clock Mass. Prepared for dinner. Eileen and Mary here at noon - pleasant day. Walked around in afternoon to see odd pair of ducks - look like Mallard - domestic - don't fly.

1981 - Monday - 38 degrees at 6 AM. Fair breezy day - wind made outdoor work uncomfortable. Trimmed dead wood from Black Pine over little bridge. Mike brought his second bill. To Village Bank to leave application for mortgage loan - did a little shopping. Home for lunch and nap. Wes to Bega to help Mike mark and house. I picked up [[Lucille Harteven?]] - showed her Begas [[Bega's]] site and house plans.

1982 - Tuesday - 26 degrees at 6 AM. Snowing blizzard conditions  forecast - it was indeed a blizzard a good 12 inches - high winds. Worst storm in two years. Loads of birds - Wes kept outside feeders and suet going - we were able to fill small feeder by opening kitchen window - Loads of birds didn't go to work. Mail came through - Danbury paper didn't. put heater on our Solar - lots of icicles on lower part.

Transcription Notes:
1981 - Monday - possible name may be Lucianne. Definitely a woman. She showed her the Bega (probably Bega Court) site and house plans. Believe she forgot the apostrophe before the "s". She wrote Begas. Lucille Harteven is a name recorded at the front of the book. Maybe that name.