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November 23 1983 - Wednesday - 36° at 6:30 - Beautiful sky. Sun 6:45-4:34 - good morning- cloudy P.M. Made preparations for dinner tomorrow. Wes' cold better. He rented a drill and placed the landscape tie (half round) along the vegetable garden path - behind the Pieris and another layer on the triangle bed - I put chips on path. Stayed up to midnight to watch "The Citadel" - worth it! Good fire made it very warm. 1984 - Friday - 25° at 7 AM - Sun rose 6:52 - Sets 4:32. Except for one period mid-morning it was a beautiful sunny day - went over 40° in afternoon. To UPS with Holmden's Christmas package (Igloo) only to find it didn't open until noon - stopped for gasoline at new Texaco station on Federal Road. Gave us a token for a car wash. Bananas at Shoprite - home. After lunch Wes put on rest of fertilizer. I spread rest of lime - raked leaves into bog water run and over cliff - getting cleaned up - put cages around evergreens on wall garden. 1985 - Saturday - 36° at 6:45 - Beautiful morning - no mice in traps! Lovely day - cool and sunny House chores. To Waldbaums - left shoes at shoemaker for soles - Marcus. Home to work outdoors for an hour - took plastic from pool - put rocks at dell water course - hope not too many leaves to into pool. Wes put new spreader together and after lunch put fertilizer on grass. Raked leaves in spots - cut off last of perennials - blew walks free of leaves with lawnboy [[Lawn-Boy]] - still have gasoline in it. 1986 - Sunday - 28° at 6:15 - Clear - Nice day. To 8 o'clock Mass. To Farmington Market for Rock Garden Plantsman Lecture Luncheon - good meal - slides of plants not very interesting for our garden. Shopped Waldbaums enroute home - Tried to nap but no success - To Rosses at 7 pm for dinner - Father Tighe there - home at 10:15. 1987 - Monday - 22° at 6:30 - Beautiful sky - put heat on and went back to bed for a half hour. Ice on pond. No mice in kitchen draw traps - only caught 4 this fall - so far. Not a bad day - warmed up in afternoon - high clouds. Washed - ironed - to Pharmacy for Wes' blood pressure pills - they hadn't heard from Dr. Neligan - Meekers for chain for gate - left tablecloth at laundry - Waldbaum's for groceries - lunch - nap - put burlap around dwarf pine - Wes worked on gate chain - not satisfied with look. November 24 1983 - Thursday - Thanksgiving Day. 46° at 7 AM. Sprinkles overnight. Mist and light rain in the morning - heavier at afternoon - too bad for travelers. Set up fire in livingroom - set table - prepared for Eileen Mary and Boo here at noon - left at 3:30 because of fog - short visit - dinner was good - Bit called - she had returned with Skeet from Clem & Neil's - was on her way to Gus & Carolyn's. 1984 - Saturday - 28° at 6:30 - Beautiful pink clouds in east before sunrise. Mostly fair day - sun out - not too much wind. Solar rose to 70° mid afternoon. Transplanted the rabbit foot fern into wire basket - hard on floor with drips! Wes in shop in morning - rested cold in afternoon - watched Notre Dame beat Southern Cal. I cut off dead parts of Aquilegia in wall garden - ran the pump down watering the year's transplants. Wes brought in wood for fire 1985 - Sunday - 36° at 6:15 - Fair - No mice in traps - beginning to think the problem is over. We ut back all the cutlery and towels, etc. Very breezy day. To 8 o'clock Mass - Read papers - did house chores - repotted Spathyphyllum - planted Species Tulips - Muscari - Species Crocus for forcing. To Billie Newell's at 5 for a cocktail party - good - home at 7:30. Last episode of South Pole "Last Place on Earth" - glad its over. 1986 - Monday - 47° at 7:30 - Slept late - good - Cloudy - damp. Wes cut up the top of red maple broken in storm and resting on south grass. I took rock garden plants to Greenhouse - sent card to Mr Long - shopped Stop & Shop for cranberries, turnip for Thanksgiving. Home for lunch & nap. Wes worked on putting up board in shop Johnny to hold towel bar. I ironed tablecloth - fed birds - picked up sticks - repotted 3 Amaryllis, brought in plants from Solar. 1987 - Tuesday - 37° at 7 AM - Partly cloudy. Wes paid Wright ($3040) and Castle for conduit for fence $450); I went to Garden Club meeting at Louise McKeon's at 10 o'clock - then on to Brunetti to pick up turkey - filled car with Super $1.27 gal. Wes had gotten leaf chipped started - he chipped leaves after lunch. He also polished the balance. We picked up blood pressure pills.