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August 27 1983 - Saturday - 66° at 6 AM - Rain shower in night - hurray! Too bad not continuing. Warm and very high humidity. Sat on deck in evening until dark. Cleaned house - did wash - Wes polished breakfast table. Watered big rhododendrons and azaleas on South Side - all plants there. Rearranged furniture on deck - took sunshade to Hayloft - it isn't functional. Took Garden Show Poster to church bulletin board. In planted Poly Pody against rock in Wood Knoll - found it yesterday over clif all dried out - soaked it overnight - remarkable recovery 1984 - Monday - 58° at 6:30 - Beautiful view over foggy pond when sun came up. Fair morning - looked like rain in afternoon - started with beautiful clouds. Very dry - no rain. I worked at Ballard Garden with Muriel Pedersen - stopped Gran Central for bananas. Wes dug big rhododendron - in afternoon we moved it back in center toward wood pile. Watered it well as well as other transplants. I cut grass. Picked beans and strawberries - pepper and dahlias & Zinnia for Garden Club meeting tomorrow. 1985 - Tuesday - 70° at 6 AM. Cloudy - foggy - muggy. Another 3/10 in gauge from last night's rain - cleared in afternoon. To Mass. Wes prepared chart on Double digging. I cleaned tools and prepared notes to talk at RGC meeting. Early lunch & nap - picked up Helen and on to Chris Clark's for the meeting - went well - glad to have it over - Panel of three Louise McKeon, Edith Meffley and me. Home at five. Wes had cut lawn and worked some more on two huge stones above house/shed path. Saw a Pileated Woodpecker in the glade at cocktail time. 1986 - Wednesday - 69° at 7 AM. Dark - gloomy - light shower about 2 pm. Moved two of the juniper at driveway to area around tree at driveway entrance - cut them back severely. Brought down stones to raise tree well and hold the soil. To town meeting in Veterans Park School - got there at 8:40 & missed the quick meeting - okayed money to study turning Ridgefield area back to residential - Home to see couple episodes of "Mapp & Lucie" on Channel 13 - great. 1987 - Thursday - 58° at 7:30 - Slept late account Wes' cough - he has bad nights - Raining, thank God. To town - gasoline - bank - Brunetti - Stop & Shop - Genovese for cough medicine for Wes - he had a bad night coughing. Rained most of day - 1.05 at 6 pm. I made out bulb order McClure & Zimmerman and plant order from Siskiyou Nursery. August 28 1983 - Sunday - 69° at 6:15. Foggy - Partly sunny/cloudy/very humid - thunderstorm at 4 pm - 6/10 inch of rain - so glad of it. To 8 o'clock Mass - read papers on deck - cooler there - watered big hemlocks - rhododendrons again and baby laurel etc on south side. Left water trickling into laurel on Northwest bank while at Mass. To Ruth Sharp's at 5 pm - Rosses and Father Tighe there. 1984 - Tuesday - 60° at 6 AM - Sun making sky red over hill - Mostly sunny day - great if you like it dry. To Mass. Wes put on grass seed on North Slope. I picked up Helen Ross and went to Ballard for Garden Club meeting (picnic lunch). Wes moved Eunonymous, Aldenhamensis to shrub border near road - taking the big Hosta from there - split it - and planted it on South Room garden. When I returned, we watered the transplants well. 1985 - Wednesday - 62° at 7 AM - Fair - Slept late Wes dug free the 'Zumi' Crab - I replanted the Lamium on the cliff bank - After lunch - moved the tree back to South about six feet. Found the tree had originally been grown in a wire basket - still around the ball. Used wire clippers to remove it. Watered tree well. Muriel Pedersen brought me three Lycoris radiata bulbs which I potted in an 8" bulb pan. To Nancy Carroll's birthday buffet at 7 pm - about [[strikethrough]] 26 [[/strikethrough]] 28 people - Home at 10:30 1986 - Thursday - 59° at 7 AM. Cloudy. Breakfast after Mass. A little rain in the morning - less than 1/4 inch - cleared in afternoon. To Mass. To Reclamation - bought American Classic Caviar for Nancy Carroll Draper's birthday - Young's Agway for peat - fertilizer & grass seed - Stop & Shop & Liquor Store. Lunch - nap. Moved the remaining juniper from driveway curve to tree well and one up above mailbox - don't know whether they will live - a difficult job 1987 -Friday - 58° at 6 AM - Dark - cloudy - Drizzled most of day. 6/10 inch at 6 PM. To Mass. No outdoor work. Revised bulb order from McClure & Zimmerman & sent it off with Siskiyou order. Took 4 plants with roots from propagation box in upstairs bathroom - planted them - put in Solar as light & damp there. Wes rested - had a better night. Not as much coughing. I picked up Nancy Carroll's lei from Pinchbeck & delivered it to her. Her birthday party was fabulous - rum mytai drinks - roast pig - most everyone in Hawaiian clothes as approximate