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September 30

1978 - Saturday - Breakfast before Mass - Very dark and foggy - Many ducks at corn - 32° at 6:30 - became beautiful, cool, breezy day.  11 Canada Geese came in before Mass -  we chased them afterwards. To Tinker Shop to pick up black iron table - left Alex' Sacred Heart picture for framing. Transplanted in perennial garden - threw away some plants, thinned a lot of others.  Played golf 3 to 5 with [[strikethrough]] Jim [/strikethrough]] J. Young man with powerful stroke. Took plants in for protection.

1979 - Sunday - 60° at 7 am - Light rain most of day. Prepared luncheon. Eileen here at noon. Brought us load of bread and the Wilkinson long handed shears for Jule. Pleasant day. She left at 4:30. Jerry Duncan and son Robert came by - we picked up all hanging plants from church hall - guests still there from afternoon concerts. 

1980 - Tuesday - 52° at 5:45 - No Mass as left 7:45 for N.Y.C. - Wes dropped me at Dr. Espy - changed prescription for reading glasses - Wes went to Algonquin where I found him at 11 o'clock - walked to Altman's - had lunch - bought writing paper for Bit and Kelly - to Macy's Cellar - back to Algonquin (tea at Grand Hyatt) - Eileen joined us there - drink & dinner - to "Suicide" with Derek Jacobi - benefit for Channel 13 - awful & ridiculous - walked back to Algonquin.

1981 - Wednesday - 38° at 6:45. Slept late - felt good. Kitchen temperature 60° - didn't put heat on - last night's den fire was warm. Wes set up drill press. Mike worked on staining house - hand painting. I shopped Bedieut for miscellaneous supplies - Brunetti's, liquor - Marcus - bank - picked up additional tax bill. After lunch to Brookfield Lamp Shop - bought two shades for den - lights for powder room - two shades to try on blue lamp in dining area.

1982 - Thursday - 55° at 7:15 - Slept in account Wes' cold - my cough - Wes is better today. Gloomy, cloudy day with light sprinkle in morning - cleared late afternoon where I cut the grass and Wes split wood for a fire. Put heat on in afternoon. Wrapped birthday presents - phoned Bit - will go to Lock Haven Friday Oct. 8th. Fixed waistband of long plaid skirt.

October 1

1978 - Sunday - 56° at 7 AM. Cloudy - light rain in morning (mist) heavy rain about 7:30 pm. One inch in gauge Monday morning. 
To 9:30 Mass - picked up Dorothy Stark who had operation 2 weeks ago. Prepared for Eileen's visit. Here at 12:30 - she had gone thru heavy rain below here. Eileen brought leather top for secretary - looks great. Pleasant day - Eileen left at 5 pm. Did desk work in evening.

1979 - Monday - 57° at 6 AM - cloudy - light rain in morning - heavy at times in P.M. 1 inch in gauge. Wes took Honda to shop for first check at 8 am - changed spark plugs - we are to use more non-leaded gasoline. I washed - wrote letters - brought hanging plants into house. 
We took samples of fabric for dining room chairs to Mr. Weinberg - Eileen's Banjo clock to Mr. Banks - shop for Warren Malkin - bought sunflower seed at Agway. Potted up amaryllis bulbs.

1980. Wednesday - at Algonquin, NYC - Beautiful day - if you like it dry - warm- in high 70's. Had breakfast with Eileen - checked out and drove Eileen to Harrison's office - admired landscape and buildings - wanted to see Bill Love[[?]] but he left yesterday. To White Plains - Macy's - A & S - Galleria - No luck shopping - Home via Caldors. Wes bought razor -  Remington - bananas from Stop & Shop - later to Bethel for corn - mailed birthday presents to Bit & Kelly.

1981 - Thursday - dark morning - couldn't see thermometer - it was 38° and kept that for some time - cold damp day not over 52° - light rain in the morning - heavy thunderstorm at night. Took extra lampshade back to Brookfield Lamp Shop - mailed packages (herb pillows) to Bit & Kelly from Brookfield P.O. - bought paper holder and towel ring at Waterworks for powder room - shopped Bagiet - Mike reversed door from garage and weatherstripped it - Put dome on birdfeeder to foil squirrel - dug root out of big stone.

1982 - Friday - 52° at 6:30 - Clear - beautiful day - quite warm. 
Planted peony and dwarf narcissus. Worked at Ballard Garden 9 - 12 - picked up Irish fileur prints and African Violet for Castles anniversary. Wes worked in shop and put cement bricks at north step. We planted 13 daylilies - 12 new and one transplant - along north wall. Brought up 5 ferns - 3 for corner of steps at north end of deck - other deciduous one to wood knoll. Ate last of our beans and almost the last zucchini.