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June 14 1983 - Tuesday - 64° at 7 AM. Slept late as no Mass. Father in Washington. Sunny and warm. Watered vegetable garden - 2 small rows of beans. Most leaves of all plants being eaten by slugs. Left at 11 AM for Norwalk Texaco Retirees luncheon at Shore Club - shopped at Lynch enroute to inquire re garden ornaments - Bill Kolnay at the lunch - he asked several back to his home nearby - stopped at Hawsie Nash's to pick up Impatiens Tower - home at 5 - hazy here - Kept heat down. 1984 - Thursday - 68° at 6 AM. .05 from last night's thunderstorm - too bad not more - To Mass. To Ballard Garden to measure for mulch - left sample and estimate of 75 bags with Paul Roche, Parks & Recreation - to Reclamation with papers and bottles - bought post for mail box at Youngs. Home for lunch. Golf 1-3. Breeze on course and clouds - hoped for rain but none here. Home to cut lawns - trim - weed. Wes dug out stones from South Wood and cut the high natural grass growing there. 1985 - Friday - 52° at 6 AM - Fair - beautiful day - Cool - needed sweaters to work - around 63° in p.m. Tony Ongaro finished the wall on either side of new garden steps - Wes had to work hard to keep ahead of him with stone. Tony also made a step outside Solar room. I met Elizabeth Hill and Petey Cerf - (Mrs Raymond Cerf) Mrs Ballard's daughter - she gave us a check for $1,000. Carol & Bill Stoddard invited us to dinner at Waccabuc at 7 pm - good meal - home at 11 pm. 1986 - Saturday - in London - after breakfast took #16 bus to Victoria Station - Underground from there to Kew Gardens - beautiful - azaleas - rhododendron - Alpine House - Rock Garden outstanding - had lunch in garden - Underground and bus back to Cumberland Hotel - nap - walked to St James Church, 22 George St. for 6 PM Mass - very long sermon - dinner at Durrants Hotel on George St. - very elegant - walked back to Cumberland. 1987 - Sunday - 62° at 6 AM - Fair, beautiful To 8 o'clock Mass. Worked about place - Wes on path to compost - I weeded shade garden - found the Red Baneberry had red berries already! Loads of bleeding heart seedlings. We put leaf chips on ground off Northeast wall under hemlock. Did a little watering. Humid so plants are wilting. Wes left at 4:30 to pick up Rosses at Purdys - they had been in city overnight. June 15 1983 - Wednesday - 62° at 6 AM - Hazy hot & humid Wes worked in shop. I did a wash - went to bank - 'Miss Emily's' and Village Market. Went with Gizela to Olivers - bought replacement Juniper Procumbens Nana and some Woodland and alpine plants - Planted most of them. Wes continued work on wall - difficult to find good face stones. Thunderstorm but very few sprinkles. 1984 - Thursday - 58° at 6 AM. Cool! Beautiful breezy sunny day - quite a change. I watered vegetables in morning. Wes picked up post hole hole digger from Alex and dug hole for new mailbox post - decided to get second post. I went to Jack Grasse house with Helen at 12:45 - Caudatowa Garden Club 50th Anniversary and House Tour - Home Show - Worked until 3:30 then saw Sherry, Petroni & Banks houses - Keeler Tavern & Community House - home at 5:50. Wes had taken out dead Carlesii Viburnum - dug around rock ledge near Linden - dug second mailbox hole - cut (edged) compost path. 1985 - Saturday - 51° at 6:30 - Fair - beautiful morning - increasing clouds in afternoon. To Blue Jay Orchard in Bethel to pick strawberries, gave some to Stodddards - Rosses not home. We had stopped at Bethel market for some supplies. Wes finishing spreading the gravel on driveway and walk to house. I weeded shade garden - moved a Maidenhair fern from under the Hemlock to an open spot on wall below shade garden - covered all that area with leaf mulch. Wes cleaned the pool 1986 - Sunday - in London - packed - checked out of Cumberland Hotel before breakfast - taxi to Paddington Station - 8:50 train (first class tickets gift of British Rail) change at Reading - change at Leamington Spa for Stratford - Met two girls from Philadelphia who had won trip - Aurora and Dee - Aurora's hobby was contests - had won lots - no taxis at Stratford Station phoned for one to Alveston Manor - lunch in bar - walked to town - Admiral park & Avon river boats - dinner & bed. 1987 - Monday - 68° at 6 AM - HHH - I worked at Ballard Garden in morning, alone - Muriel Pedersen worked at Keeler - planted a dozen pink Snapdragons - deadheaded [[?Prunus]]. Standard Oil of Conn. salesman here at 8:45 - Wes signed contract for oil delivery and service contract - Wes mowed grass at cliff. I mowed rest late afternoon. Pulled trees and junk debris - lots of grapevine - from pond - looks good from deck now. Watered perennial garden wilting in heat. Wes cooked butterflied lamb - tank ran out when finished
