Sunday, October 31, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 31, 1965
Partly cloudy, warm in am then very windy and becoming colder at night.  Girls and I went to Church and Sunday School.  Rev. Montanus there and (somebody), Clifton went to church at night with us.  David took Doug to Kingston at nite.  Laura and Wayne here in pm.  Nice lot out to church in am.
Comment:  A little mountain idiom going on here "Nice lot out to church"...Schoharie County sunset from Chad Blaksley.....I remember many evenings like this....

Saturday, October 30, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 30, 1965
Partly cloudy 50's.  David worked till noon.  Gerald, Mary Ann, Clifton and Wayne went to Central Bridge and brought Wayne's car to Cobleskill.  Clifton, the girls and I went to Mother's at night and came home by Stamford and Grand Gorge,  We stopped at LaVerne's for a moment.  Linda came after Doug and they went to Albany.
Comment:  Linda may be a new girl entering the picture...I don't remember her....so... Cobleskill was settled in 1752 and Portland, OR was incorporated in 1851 or about 100 years later...about the same amount of time that our mother would have lived if she had survived to 100...looking back at the last 100 years, it's absolutely amazing what has happened in that span of time..probably folks in 1851 looking back 100 years would also have been astounded....

Friday, October 29, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 29, 1965
Partly cloudy, cold and windy, 17 at 3 pm.  I washed in am.  Cleaned all through and helped Madalyn clean church.  Took Sue to camp at nite for party.  Carol went to dance at the school.  Laura here in evening and Gerald and Mary Ann came at 1030 pm. Wayne met Doug at Kingston 12 noon and LaVerne's came.  Doug and Wayne got new tires on David's car.  Had letter from Marilyn.
Comment:  Busy Friday.  Mary Ann and I probably drove in from Niagara Falls where we were living and working at the time.  It was about a 4.5 hour drive.......here is a picture of our family visiting our mother in California.  We were playing at the nursing home where she was staying...

Thursday, October 28, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, October 28, 1965
Chilly with light snow on the mountains.  Wayne took the car back to Parsons and saw Dr.  Dougall.  Laura and Carol went too.  I drove David's car to Central Bridge. (to pick him up)  We did shopping.  Girls and I went to prayer meeting.
Comment:  It could get pretty bleak in the early winter..

Wednesday, October 27, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, October 27, 1965
Cloud, windy and cold 35.  Wrote to Ella Mae, sent radio back and sent folder for church.  Ground sausage meat, did some ironing.  Wayne went to Cobleskill and  around with Earl and came home with a black 63 Ford just to try it.
Comment:  Earl was always helping out..this is probably what she used to grind the sausage......

Tuesday, October 26, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, October 26, 1965 
Nice day, 50.  I washed in am and finished covering back windows.  Took Wayne to Laura's at nite.  LaVerne, Roberta and John here in the evening.  John walks all over.
Comment:  And John is still at it....2009, Cambodia

Monday, October 25, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, October 25, 1965
Partly cloudy, cool, 42.  Wayne is so lame and sore and could only walk with a chair.  Franklin Clapper here in am about accident insurance.  I did ironing, wrote letters and did some cleaning.
Comment:  Only if you have been in a car wreck can you understand how just about every muscle in your body gets wrenched and will be sore for days.  I've been in several and the day after felt like I was beaten with a baseball bat....Wayne's depth perception was hampered by a scar over his left pupil that he got when a steel chip flew into his eye as he was hitting two hammers together and I'm wondering if that had part in the accident...here he is in happier times....

Sunday, October 24, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 24, 1965
Cool and partly cloudy.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School and to Cairo and Windham Mountain in pm.  Wayne and Laura left here 4 pm for Central Bridge.  We had phone call from Bush road to come at once and they had had a wreck, we went to Cobleskill hospital and they came home with us after being examined.  Roberta came after keys at 1030 pm.
Comment:  So Wayne and Laura were apparently heading for Central Bridge to do something related to LaVerne's mail routes and they wrecked their car on the Bush Road on the way to Middleburgh...kinda weird, I do not remember this at all.....

Saturday, October 23, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 23
Partly cloudy, windy, 50's.  I called Ella Mae in am.  Girls, Linda K. and I went to Cobleskill shopping 230 pm.  Wayne and Laura here when we got home.  Girls and I went to South Jefferson to "least"?? rally in evening.
Comment:  Not sure what kind of rally it was....weather cooling down....view from back hay lot...

Friday, October 22, 1965, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 22, 1965
Cloudy, cooler 50's, rain at nite.  I sewed, girls and I went to Anita's shower at nite, 22 there. Mother called in pm and said Ella May was in hospital, she had fallen.
Comment:  Sure gets to be tough for older people....My grandmother Agnes, fell on icy steps in the winter of 1945, broke her hip and it led to her death in 1946, age 67....she was a beautiful young woman.

Thursday, October 21, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, October 21, 1965 
Beautiful warm day, 60's.  I washed and went to paint party with Madalyn at Ella's.  Took Carol to school at nite so she could go to college nite at Berne and picked her up at 11 pm.  Sue and I went to prayer meeting. Wrote to Marilyn
Comment:  I don't think the paint party was like this one...

Wednesday, October 20, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, October 20, 1965
Beautiful day, 70's.  I worked at the meat and finished all but grinding the sausage.  Wrote to Gerald and Mary Ann.  Made nut bread and cake.
Comment:  Mom's getting a lot out of that old butternut tree at the bottom of the hill..

Tuesday, October 19, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, October 19, 1965 
Beautiful Indian Summer day, 75.  I cut out dress for myself in am and went to Home Bureau with Madalyn to Mrs. Ely's in pm.  Girls and I went to Jefferson after pig at night, stopped at Roberta's a minute.  Both men worked late.
Comment: "An Indian summer is a heat wave that occurs in the autumn. It refers to a period of above-normal temperatures, accompanied by dry and hazy conditions, usually after there has been a killing frost. Depending on latitude and elevation, it can occur in the Northern Hemisphere between late September and mid November, though the term is used as widely as early September through January"....Wikipedia...
And Indian Summer in the Catskills sure was beautiful.  Indian summer days also coincided with small game hunting season and I remember many blissful days squirrel hunting in the Beech wood stand of Uncle Earl's adjacent to the property Doug now lives on....Indian Summer Day....from Shannon O'Hara....

Monday, October 18, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, October 18, 1965
Beautiful day, sunny, warm, 67 no wind.  Sue home, didn't feel good.  I washed, covered three windows with plastic, cracked nuts, picked up a few, all there was (from the butternut tree at the bottom of the hill). Had letter from Gerald and Mary Ann.  David started work for Carpenters at Gilboa.
Comment:  Butternuts were tough to crack.  I watched my Dad set them vertically on the bottom of an old flat iron and hit the tip with a hammer and it would split down the middle and the nut meats could be easily picked out.  A very smooth and yep, buttery taste..

Sunday, October 17, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 17, 1965 
Beautiful, sunny day, 60.  I felt dreadful from headache.  Girls and went to church and Sunday School.  We took pig to Jefferson 4 pm to be butchered.  Sue and I went to church at nite.
Comment:  She keeps on keeping on.....

Saturday, October 16, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 16, 1965
Partly cloudy, 48 hi.  I baked in am.  Girls and I went to Middleburgh in pm.  Sue went to spaghetti supper a Duanesburg with Young People.  Clifton had to work.  Laverne, Roberta, John, and Laura here at nite.  I had migraine headache in evening.
Comment:  and the "sick headache" strikes again.....

Friday, October 15, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 15, 1965
Warm, 60, cloudy and windy.  I washed but clothes didn't dry very good.  David went to Poughkeepsie looking for work.  Girls and I went to church at night and finished decorating for Anita's shower.
Comment:  I used to deliver milk from Prospect Dairies in Stamford to Poughkeepsie and Peekskill driving a reefer semi down along the Hudson River on Routes 9 and 9W.  Got $20 per day for about 10 hours of work and had to handle every damned ounce of that milk...but, that was pretty good money back then....here is my son David singing my song about those times....The air brake diaphragms I blew were on the same hill the limo recently ran down and killed twenty people....

Truck Driving Memories

Thursday, October 14, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, October 14, 1965 
From Susan.  I couldn't read it:  Beautiful day, 60 degrees. I canned carrots, made conserve (which was a thick jam which she made out of peaches, nuts (probably the butternuts), cherries – “Peach Conserve” DELICIOUS!).  Mrs. Mayo (Pastor’s wife and I each took a load (of people or kids) to Berne (a local Baptist Church Flat Creek associated with) to hear Jack Wagelyen (?) at night.
Comment:   Sure sounds good to me....

Wednesday, October 13, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, October 13, 1965
Beautiful, clear, sunny, 32-50 degrees.  Cleaned, wrote to Marilyn and went to Worcester with Madalyn (Blakesley) and to Missionary Meeting at Louise's.  Prayer meeting at nite.  Radio came.
Comment:  Mom still traveling....that Sears Silvertone
radio sat on the kitchen table in front of the south facing window for many years...

Tuesday, October 12, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, October 12, 1965
Cool and cloudy in am, warmer in pm.  Sue and I went to Missionary Meeting at Mrs.  Huber's on Colen (?) Hill.  I went to prayer meeting at night.  Had business meeting at night to discuss placing mission money.  Scantoe's here at night.
Comment:   Always a lot of church stuff going on....

Monday, October 11, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, October 11, 1965
Partly cloudy, rain at nite, no school, I washed, made up rest of grapes with juice and jelly.
Comment:  Always beautiful in the Catskills....

Sunday, October 10, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 10, 1965 
Partly cloudy with showers.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday school. then we went to Mother's for dinner.  Wayne and Laura went too.  Sue, Carol, and I went to church at nite.  Winnie and Rudy were here before we got home.
Comment:  We always had drop-in guests on Sunday.  Here are Rudy and Winnie  (my Dad's sister) when they got married....I think...

Saturday, October 9, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 9, 1965
Cloudy, 50.  Girls and I went to Middleburgh in am shopping and picked grapes. Clifton didn't work.  David took Wayne's car to have work done on it.  I made grape juice in pm.  We went down to LaVerne's a few minutes in the afternoon.
Comment:  Mom keeps harvesting stuff.....

Friday, October 8, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 8, 1965
Cloudy intervals, warmer about 60.  Louise stopped about 11 am and had lunch with me.  David had transmission fixed in his car.  I worked on windows and washed them all in pm after I washed in am.  Sent for radio to Sears.  LaVerne, Roberta and John here in evening.  Girls and I weren't here, had gone to Carlisle with Joyce and Evelyn (Bailey) to see God's Country.
Comment:  Mom wants the radio to listen to the Christian radio shows, The Sword Of The Lord and Jack Wertzen, both shows we grew up with....

Thursday, October 7, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, October 7, 1965
Partly cloudy 50.  I puttied and painted around back windows.  Anita and Donna Swehle here in am and I cut their hair.  Sue and I went to prayer meeting at nite.  Heavy rain at nite.
Comment:  Still busy with the house, church and friends.....the outhouse is the little square attachment at the right of the picture...

The Back Of The House

Wednesday, October 6, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, October 6, 1965
Mostly fair and warmer, 42.  I washed, finished sweet dill pickles and canned 4 quarts of tomatoes.  Sent application to vote to Doug. I fixed spinner washer.  Alice Wyckoff called about K. Carson's Masonic funeral at nite.
Comment:   Mom is never idle.....Dad was a long time Mason so I'm sure he is participating in the funeral

Tuesday, October 5, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, October 5, 1965
Cloudy, cold and windy, 32.  We dug out carrots and potatoes, made dress for Carol. Clifton home late.
Comment:  Freezing temps but the veggies get dug....Dad home late means he was out drinking

Monday October 4, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday October 4, 1965
Cold, 30 degrees, light snow flurries and very windy all day.  Pope Paul is at the UN.  No school, teacher's conference.   Girls and I went to Middleburgh in am.  I canned 21 quarts of tomatoes.  Sue went to birthday party for Becky.  Kenneth Carson died.
Comment:  Winter approaches....Peace didn't stand a chance....

Sunday, October 3, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 3, 1965
Partly sunny, cool.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday school and Wayne and Laura went to Haskin reunion at Potter's Hollow.  Kids sang.  No church at night.  Mr. Mayo sick.  Girls went with Wayne and Laura to take Doug back.
Comment:  We were related to the Haskins through my father's mother who was Agnes Haskin, a much beloved member of the Flat Creek community...here she is with her mother, Sara "Tay" and sister Phebe....she died when I was about 8 years old.  I was taken to her deathbed so we could say goodbye.  I vividly remember she was taking massive, heaving breaths that shook the bed as her heart failed and she looked at me with loving, anguished eyes....she died just a little bit later.....she used to buy me new shoes whenever the ones I had became bedraggled....I remember several pairs....

Saturday, October 2, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 2, 1965
Lovely, clear, sunny day, 52. I washed in am, made navy skirt for Sue.  Doug went with Wayne on mail route in am and they and Laura here 4 pm for supper.  Sue went on route with Wayne and Laura.  Wayne got groceries for me at Grand Union in Middleburgh.  David had to go to National Guard.
Comment:  David as a Guardsman....

Friday, October 1, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 1, 1965
Cloud, cool and very rainy and windy all nights.  I kept John all day.  LaVerne, Roberta and Walt and Alice Wyckoff went with them.  (She does not say where they went).  Carol took John home at 8 pm.  Sue went to Sunday School picnic.  David went to Kingston after Doug.

Comment:  And another rainy weekend rolls around....