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June 10 1983 - Friday - 42° at 6:30 - Sun breaking thru fog. Beautiful day! I went to Pinchbeck for Balls Mix and fertilizer and to bank and Brunetti - to Teen Center for talk on canning (at request of Muriel Petersen to help clean up) Wes in shop - sanded out planting tray - wire brushed ready for repainting. After lunch, he graded at well site - moved stones and planted fern at big rock - future waterfall - gave Alpine Poppy to Gizella - she gave us Heuchera 1984 - Sunday - 72° at 6:15 - Sun hot already - Fan did a good job keeping house cool in night. Very hot and humid day - high 94°. To 8 o'clock Mass. Visited the Benscos on Benson Road but not home. Walked around place - Wes finished one section of Bog Wall - started cleanup behind Rhododendrons to get fill for the wall. I watered gardens - cut grass - put sprinkler on grass and gardens south side. Ate dinner on deck - nice breeze came up 1985 - Monday - 64° at 6 AM - Partly cloudy - became a beautiful day. Transplanted new plants Eileen had brought us - new Spathiphyllum - and a miniature - To Ballard - stained frame for Espalier - clipped weeded deadheaded two beds - with Hawsie moved pine bark mulch to stone wall - Wes took gravel from garden room - lowered area around pool - a big job. After lunch I cut grass - planted wax begonias - all the ginger brought at Garden in the Woods - the Cardinal Flowers (2) deadheaded - watered hanging plants - We were tired at night. 1986 - Tuesday - 50° at 6 AM - beautiful. Packed and fixed up house for leaving. Eileen came up early afternoon and drove us to Tarrytown. Re's Service picked us up there and drove us to JFK - British Airlines - we had a snack - checked in to Flight 176 - BA had a party at 7 pm - Bagpipers - champagne - left on time 9 pm - good flight - lots of people (410) supper (dinner with a menu) Move (terrible Down & Out in Beverly Hills) breakfast - napped. 1987 - Wednesday - 53° at 6 AM - Beautiful morning and day - warmer in afternoon - cool breeze at night. To Mass. House chores, then I went to Pinchbeck for clay pots to enter Myrtle and lemon geranium in Show next week - bank - to Tarrey Cooke's for luncheon - she was having outgoing & incoming boards - home after shopping for groceries. Wes had cut grass under hemlock on south side - was working on west path on Wood Knoll. Rosses came to look at Azaleas (Bakerii) at 4:30 and stayed for a drink. June 11 1983 - Saturday - 55° at 6:30. Fair - warm sunny. House cleaning. Made lamb-apricot-raisin stew. 12 yards of wood chips delivered by Darryl Knapp $100.00. Wes cut down maple tree in front of big rock North side. We chipped it up. Edged and cultivated at cliff edge. Wes graded at big rock. Cut grass. 1984 - Monday - 74° at 6 AM. Sunny hot humid conditions continuing - high 94°. Played golf 8-10. Few chores - early lunch - to town - I had a haircut - Wes went to Town Hall to look at map re ownership of pond - half belongs to Hemlock Hills Association - Agnay for stakes - left film, shopped Grand Central - Cheese Shop - Stop & Shop & Liquor. Home to water - cultivate - Wes worked on grading south side - path to bog garden. Heard thunder - nothing here too bad. 1985 - Tuesday - 52° at 6 AM. Part sun and clouds - Quite warm. To Mass. Watered Wood Knoll. Vee Grenier & helper here at 9:15 to clean windows. Left them here at 10:15 to go to bank and on to Essex-Griswold House, where Texaco Retirees had luncheon - Bought cachepot and glass for bathroom at Queen's Museum. Home at 4:45 - nap. Put the screens and draperies back in our bedroom & bathroom. 1986 - Wednesday - Landed at Heathrow, London, at 8:40 AM - Raining - Met by Bill Hawkins, Texaco chauffeur, drove to Cumberland Hotel - a delay checking in as lots of people who also won the trip - small room, double bed - took at nap - sun came out - walked Oxford Street to Regent Street and finally found Tourist Office close to Piccadilly - got information on train - trips - etc. - but back to Cumberland Hotel - dinner - bed. 1987 - Thursday - 48° at 6:15 - Beautiful day, just about perfect - sunny - cool - breezy. Made cookies. Standard Oil of Conn. salesman here to audit oil burner - good proposal on oil delivery Cut grass - Wes put wood chips around hemlock on south side - finished west path on wood knoll. Vee Grenier came at 4 o'clock - an hour late - to clean windows - left about 5:45. We had moved Amaryllis to holding bed. I planted some Snapdragons and White Salvia in spots in perennial garden. Watered
