Today: 1979 May 28 - June 10

Monday 5.28.79

Daily Lottery: 209

Raining all morning.

We finally decided to eat

Down at Cookie's At 5 p.m.

About 4 p.m.

It got nice for a couple hours.

The sun really came out.

I believe

Everybody had a nice time. Herb's father was there.

That was a first

With are family present.

Watched TV

And went to bed. Lent Dick Butler John's Tork Wrench today. Turnips up in garden. (Ask Chris)

Memorial Day.

Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born

naturalist, born 1807;

Dionne quintuplets born 1934

Tuesday 5.29.79

Daily Lottery: 297

Back at work today.

P.P. sure was nice. He asked me a lot of questions

About being on jury duty. I answered him.

No use making waves.

I worked most of the day

With brick samples and P.C.E.

No one else got too busy though.

Mowed yard in evening.

Did not feel very good. Having trouble getting quite tired.

Watched T.V.

Went to bed.

John F. Kennedy, 35th

President, born 1917;

Sir Edmund Hillary and

Tenzing Norgay conquered

Mount Everest, 1953

Wednesday 5.30.79

Daily Lottery: 105

Feeling bad again today.

Had a very bad morning

With cramps & muscle spasms.

Felt better in P.M.

Did not do much work today.

Took onions, bread, butter, salt

Back at lunch time. Everyone liked them. Feel bad in chest area.

Quite sore.

Back giving me pains also.

Sure wish weather would get nice.

Might feel better.

Joan of Arc burned at the stake,

1431;

First Memorial Day observed,

1868

Thursday 5.31.79

Daily Lottery: 883

Very little to do at work.

Some man was in from Ohio. I guess he is a mechanic

At the Ohio plant

Longfritz & Morgan

Gave him a plant tour.

Took Mildred for groceries in p.m.

She took quite a while

So I didn't get much done

Here at home.

Rainy day

So it was very nice.

Walt Whitman, American

poet, born 1819;

Johnstown, Pa. flood, 1889

Friday 6.1.79

Daily Lottery: 602

Nothing to do at work today either.

Perry & Stu

Are to be in Ohio

Drilling this next week.

No one has said anything to me

About running the furnaces.

I probably will.

Just for the extra money.

Worked in garden after work.

Watched T.V.

Went to bed.

Shabuot.

Brigham Young, Mormon leader,

born 1801;

John Masefield, English poet,

born 1878

Saturday 6.2.79

Daily Lottery: 468

Worked in the garden & yard

All day.

This was a nice day

But the sun did not come out

For long at a time.

I got all the garden worked

And put fertilizer & lime on this a.m.

Busy getting flower bed

Weeded out.

Thomas Hardy, English novelist,

born 1840

Sunday 6.3.79

Got up at 6:00 a.m.

Dick Butler & Dick Butler

Were up all night

Putting another transmission in the Dodge

That Daryl sold him.

I was over to talk to him

And he knocked a wrench off the radiator

And put a hole in it.

I worked all day in flower beds.

And I masked and painted

The front door.

Shawn took car to DuBois

As his 8 graders soccer team

Had a game their.

They lost 0-2.

We went to Baccalaoreate services

At the high school.

Shawn looked so nice.

I'm really proud of him.

Pentecost.

Hernando De Soto claimed

Florida for Spain, 1539;

Jefferson Davis, president

of the Confederate States

during Civil War, born 1808

Monday 6.4.79

Daily Lottery: 638

Perry worked today.

I guess Stu & he

Will go to Ohio tomarrow morning.

I had enough work

To keep busy

Most of the day.

Paul P. left us go home

At 4 p.m.

Sure did not make me mad.

Mary and I went out

On DuBeck Road

After supper

And got a nice load of wood.

Sure had a load.

John & Snookie had kids down

In evening.

I had a good time

Playing with both

With the skate-boards

On side walk.

Cookie & Daryl were up

For a while.

Also Punk & Morgan were here

For a while also.

Morgan & Punk just got back

From Bill's funeral.

King George of England

born 1738

Tuesday 6.5.79

Daily Lottery: 976

Not quite so much work

To do today

We got are new electrical equipment

For powering the press

For making *boers & M/R today.

P-P put it together

Perry & Stu in Ohion

I took Puddy's car

To P-burg tonight

Morgan followed me over

And brought me back.

He needed new woodgrain

On side of car.

Shawn took 72 Hornet

To Houtzdale for soccer match

They lost.

All in all a good day.

Chuck took test

At employment office

Today.

Adam Smith, Scottish

economist, born 1723;

First public balloon ascent,

France, 1783

Wednesday 6.6.79

Daily Lottery: 566

Did not do much

At work today.

Perry & Stu

Still in Ohio Paul P spent most of day

Putting the motorization unit

On press

Still not done

As it leaks.

After supper

Mary & I cut 2 nice loads

Of wood.

Sure was a nice evening.

Thomas Mann, German

author, born 1875;

Allies invaded France on

D-Day, 1944

Thursday 6.7.79

Daily Lottery: 839

Did not do much today

As everyone just wanted to BS.

About 3:15 Paul said

Bob Enoch called up

As Bill T was wineing & dining

Some politician

And would be in tomarrow.

We all pitched in

And had the lab ship shape by 4:30 p.m.

Worked in garden

After taking Mildred to market.

Chuck took test

At employment office today

For Kurtz Bros.

Gwendolyn Brooks, American

poet, born 1917

Friday 6.8.79

Daily Lottery: 697

Shawn graduated tonight.

He looked nice.

Went to party all night. Perry & Stu back from Ohio.

On way to work

Chris was stalled

At end of Park Ave with Jeep.

We tried pushing it by hand

But could not start. I went over to Ernie's

And picked up Vic

We brought his jumpers along

And got Chris started

I worked making slugs in morning.

Bill T in at lunch time

I did not see him (Good)

Sweet Potatoes came today

They look nice

Chuck took physical

For Kurtz today.

Guess he got job

Had good mark in test (Good)

Robert Schumann, German

composer, born 1810;

Frank Lloyd Wright,

American architect, born 1867

Saturday 6.9.79

Daily Lottery: 633

Worked all day in garden

Getting 2nd planting sweet potatoes.

Really got tired.

Had dinner date

With Mom & Shawn & Gwen

At Harbor Inn.

Seen Bill Turner,

Bob Shank & wife,

Sherman Nelson

We came home early

As Gwen had to pack

For trip to London, England. John & Family

Down in evening.

Fixed tiller and mower.

Very hot evening.

George Stephenson, English

inventor, born 1781;

Cole Porter, American

songwriter, born 1893

Sunday 6.10.79

Got up about 8:15 a.m.

Weeded flower bed by Mrs. Learish

Then weeded upper garden

And re-planted some things

Then weeded front flower beds.

Worked all day at this.

Grounds look nice.

Mary went over to her mother's

In afternoon.

She wasn't very good.

Chuck & Mo were here

In evening.

I gave them money

And they brought back some food

For me and mom.

This was Maureen's birthday.

Prince Philip, Duke of

Edinburgh, born 1921