May 22, 1963, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

May 22, 1963

Wednesday, partly cloudy and cool, 50’s.  I finished cleaning upstairs, all but floors and window in Davids room.  I called Ella Mae to see how they were.  Emil bad.  Boys plowed the garden at night.

Comment:  Emil and Ella Mae Roth were Mom's cousins and Dad and her visited them in New Jersey.  Here is a diary entry from April explaining the rather tangled relationship of Ella Mae and how she might be considered Mom's step mother:
http://gerryhubbard.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-1-1963-frances-hubbard-diaries.html


When we planted the garden we did it on a "tractor scale" so the most of the hand work of weeding, etc could be performed with the tractor.  I never weeded a garden until we lived in a suburban area.  Here is the old Allis Chalmers C tractor that we used and abused for years.