Posted by JD Seller on February 17, 2015 at 19:05:42 from (208.126.198.123):
My wife kept a daily journal since her 12th birthday (8-8-1962) when she was given a daily journal. NOT a diary a journal. She wrote about the things that happened on that day in her journals. She kept writing them until she could not longer hold a pen to write with about two weeks before she died. The last entry she wrote was on 9-10-1995. She passed on 9-28-1995. So there are 23 years of daily journals of her/our everyday life. She did not write about her personal feelings or emotions. Just normal everyday stuff.
I found them while moving some stuff in the attic of the farm house this morning. I did not come down out of the attic for 4 hours. I just sit there and read her account of our daily lives. (Darn screen is blurry)
I stopped by the bank and put them in a safety deposit box. I talked to all the kids early this evening. I am going to have a copy of all of the journals made for each of my kids and grand kids. I feel that these may help them remember their Mother/Grand Mother and also explain just what our life together was. I will also have some additional copies made for some others that would like to have then too.
I also found out she kept a record of every single foster child that she cared for in these journals. She wrote their names and all the information she had for them on the day they came to her. Then she wrote about when they left and where they where going.
I am going to have the one Grand Daughter, that is real good at record keeping and computers, make a complete list of all the foster kids she cared for. This can now be done on a computer so that we have the names and the time spent with us all organize.
Some examples out of the journals:
Nov. 15,1964: Mom showed me how to make curtains today. We made new ones for my bedroom. They really look nice. We had a nice Beef roast for supper. Aunt Dot gave us a side of beef for helping them butcher last week when we had the first good cold spell.
Jan. 20, 1065 Father sold four hogs today. He broke the back door when Mom locked him out for being drunk. Mom told me to not worry as he had paid the bill at the store. She would give me a grocery list to buy at lunch and bring home on the school bus.
July 15, 1967 Ronnie worked 14 hours at the Feed Mill today. I rode to town with Pops and took Ronnie some lunch. After we pay all the bills and keep out this week's living expenses we will have $29.50 to put into savings. This will put our savings over $1000. We now will start setting some money aside for a car for this winter. We are hoping $200-300 will be enough.
April 5th, 1978 The first of the new sows pigged today. They all look to farrow in the next few days. We hope the weather will stay warm and dry. Robert drove Pops tractor today for the first time. HE is a proud ten year old tonight.
August 8th, 1988 The hot dry weather continues today. Even if we get rain it will be too late for most of the crops. I took my first treatment today. I was not be able to help do chores tonight. Hopefully I will be able to help tomorrow. Not my favorite birthday.
January 4th 1992 Cold today but not too bad. Ronnie worked most of the day on the tractor he bought. I stayed out of the shop as things where not going well with it. Amber came in and told me Dad was using a lot of bad words. She thought I should go wash his mouth out.
August 8th, 1995 I was able to drive the Gator out to feed the cows. The calves seemed glad to see me. It was a nice afternoon. This has been a good birthday. I hope not my last.
These are just a few short things out of literally thousands. I figure there are over 5000 pages in all of these journals.
So close your eyes and think back to times gone by in your life. May they be happy thoughts.
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