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March 22

1988- Tuesday- 15° at 6 AM when I got up to put on heat + oatmeal- back to bed, until 6:45. Fair - cold morning - moderating in afternoon I went to  Ballard Carriage House for Garden Club meeting at 10 AM, picking up Helen. Won firsts for forced tulip and Rosemary Ring - second for Ponies Home for lunch. Wes had cut board for upstairs windows. Afternoon we took off christmas wreath from front door - Christmas tree from bud tree - Checked laurel + planted spring mores.

1989- Wednesday- 26° at 6 AM- Fair sunny day but cold. Rolled old chicken wire fencing for TR tomorrow spray painted tops of steel fence posts - look better To Walpole after lunch to look at fencing for shed area - had car washed - bought more plastic fencing at Youngs. Planted a second six pack of Cosmos seed - first came up so quickly that they bent over under plastic

1990 - Thursday - 32° at 6AM - Cloudy - to Mass - Prepared house plants and house lights for trip tomorrow to Washington - [[Tailer?]] Tavern. Eileen came up in afternoon. after dropping off the dogs at the kennel in East White Plains.

1991 - Friday - 35° at 6AM - Fair - to mass. Packed - watered plants - left at 11 AM for Waltham Mass to attend Mild Hower Symposium tomorrow - Routes 84 to [[strikethrough]] 128 [[/strikethrough]] 90 (Mass Pike) To 128 North - took exit 28 A - 27 would have been better. Heavy rain - awful driving - located Bentley College and Best Western East Motel (near exit 24) Put up for the night - again adequate warm and not bad dinner.

1992 - Sunday - 19° at 6 AM. Clear. Sun 5:55 - 6:10 Snow predicted for later in day. To 8 o'clock Mass I was [[Leetor?]]. Prepared dinner for Eileen (came despite snow prediction) Kelly, Carolyn + Pete + Chelsea - Eileen left dogs home and we missed them - Kelly here enroute Atlanta. snow started about 2 pm. very fine - Eileen left for home - others shortly after as it was Chelsea's nap time. We put dishes in dishwasher - took a nap - read some papers in the evening.

March 23

1988 - Wednesday - 20° at 6  AM - Cloudy - off and on sun - windy - cold - To Mass. To Stop + Shop- [[Bernetti?]] and Hardware store - home for lunch - nap. I cooked Veal Ragout and Asparagus soup for tomorrow's dinner. Wes had time in shop. Early dinner as M 59 was to come at 6:20 to install shade in our bathroom - did come at 6:50 - shade looks good. Had finished crossword in morning - cant complete Sunday's - too many names. 

1989 - Holy Thursday - 23° at 6:30 - Fair - good day - cold but sunny.. Removed cover from fireplace - put Poinsettia upstairs - closed sewing machine - cleaning up for Easter. Shopped. Waldbounds - mailed tax returns. we don't give anything in April. After lunch put the 50 foot plastic wire on south deer fence - a big job replacing the wasted chicken wire - several layers of it. To 8 o'clock Mass.

1990 - Friday - Beautiful day. up early. Eileen with us. To Keller Tavern at 6:40 - Bus left at 7:40 for Washington - 33 people in all - arrived there before our three o'colck date at State Department. went reception rooms, so did bus tour of mall etc. beautiful, sunny day - people sunbathing - State Dept. rooms beautiful - to Washington Hotel - 15th and Pennsylvania - dinner at hotel- Walked to Willard

1991 - Saturday - in Waltham, Mass. Cold but rain down to a mist. Breakfast in Best Western East left at 8:15 - gasoline at Mobil - located St. Joseph's church - Mass at 5 pm - onto Bentley College Graduate Center - good speakers and slides on wild gardens - propagation - box lunch then - was sleeping at lunchtime - symposium over at 4:15 - to St Joseph's for Mass - to the motel for drinks and dinner.

1992 - Monday - 28° at 6 AM - Cloudy. About 2 inches of snow. Wes raked driveway early so we could go to Mass for Mother's Anniversary. Sun 5:54 - 6:11 A good deal of sun - a few flurries here but Tarrytown had a lot. We finished shoveling and raking. Had sandwich in Solar its 80° I made muffins. did a wash. ironed tablecloth - new iron doesn't get as hot as old one. Wes working on balancing the statement and checkbook. Out $25.00. I did a little sewing on white blouse.