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one of their flags marking a soldiers grave. People were thronging to the cemetery carrying flowers. Returning we left Doughtie at the house to see Tom mow the grass and we drove down the hill to leave Sara at John McEntees Nannie having sent for her. I drove down to Rondout with my father and mailed some letters. The post office was closed and also some of the stores but most of them were open. We drove around by Poukhoekee, saw Ned Tomkins and came home by the Point road. There was a parade of the Grand Army posts and the 14 Separate Co. but we did not go to see it. I worked in the garden this afternoon putting up the cords for the lima beans and dusting the potato vines with Paris green. I picked about a pint of strawberries from the bed. I called to see Griffiths about the roof of his house for Calvert and at his request wrote him this afternoon. Janette and I talked on Spiritualism this evening. I have felt depressed and troubled and have looked too far ahead today. 

Tuesday June 1" 1886
Tom and I planted the okra today, some peas; a second planting of corn and some squash. It has been a perfect day and I have been busy. We took the carpet up in the sitting room and the old matting under it and put down the new matting which looks very nicely. I made a mistake somehow in cutting it although I took every precaution in measuring it, which came near spoiling it. Had a letter from Alice, and my father and Sara received an invitation to Mr & Mrs. DeGroffs golden wedding on the 25".

Wednesday 2" Drove the team up to Kingston to get them shod but there were so many ahead of me that I could not wait. Came home and drove out to Stones and got a dozen egg plants, a dozen pepper plants and 25 cauliflowers. When I got back took Janette down to the ferry to take the day boat to visit Mary from whom we had a letter this morning saying she would expect her. I telegraphed her from Kingston. Came home again and a little after noon got my father in the wagon and he, Sara and I drove up to the West Shore Station for Mrs. Swan who came up from N.Y. after dinner I set out the plants while Tom was replanting the beets most of which as usual have failed. It has been a windy, depressing day with a sort of fog and I have had a heavy heart worrying over all sorts of anxieties. I feel so differently from last year at this time because I have no resources and I look to the summer with all sorts of forebodings.

Thursday 3" Rained this morning. When it ceased I drove the team up to Kingston and spent the whole forenoon in Luke Menor's Blacksmith shop while he shod the horses, among his queer customers, his pictures of scantily clad actresses, his primitive surroundings. Drove to the Strand to the post office and did not get home until near dinner time. After dinner went down to Storrs and got half a dozen more tomato plants which I set out and sowed some sweet peas in place of those I sowed a month ago, and picked the strawberries. It has been cold all afternoon. I am reading Pendenius and mean to read more than usual this summer. A letter from Mrs. Monell.

Friday 4" Worked in the garden doing some planting. Took Mrs. Swan up to the noon train my father Sara and Dwightie going along. After dinner we drove down for Nannie proposing a ride the day being perfect. Saw Aunt Christina who came out to the wagon to speak to my father. Nannie was not well and declined going so we drove down and got Mrs. Davis and rode along by the river road and came home by the Alms House and Wiltwyck, Mrs. Davis remaining with us for tea. I received a long letter from Mr. Semple of Louisville Chairman of the Art Committee of the Exposition relative to the debt to the Art Union - also a letter from Miss Nesmith. 

Transcription Notes:
The History of Pendenius by W. M. Thackery .