Saturday, 31 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 31 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day in Oakland, NJ but rained all day here.  I helped Ella Mae wash and clean all through and started for home about 230 pm.  Forgot our suitcase and had to go to Harriman before we could turn around.  Earl and Bob were hear for supper.  Marilyn took Sue to Dr. Lyons in am, she had bronchitis and fever of 103.4.  Ethridge got a load of hay.
Comment:  Shit happens.....Sister's Kids, Marna, Patty , Dean

Friday, 30 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 30 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, in 70's.  Helped Ella Mae, Clifton raked lawn.  Pressed curtains for living room and put them up in the afternoon.  Took ride toward Paterson before supper.  Did shopping for Ella Mae in am.
Comment:  This is all taking place in New Jersey where Ella Mae lived.  Meanwhile, back on the Hill, Marilyn and Jim holding sway....their wedding day about 5 years earlier.

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Thursday, 29 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 29 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, 60's.  We left for Ella Mae's 130 pm.  Stopped in Saugerties, reached Oakland NJ about 5 o'clock.
Comment:  Mom and Dad on road trip to see her cousin in NJ......Mom as a toddler....four years old??

Wednesday, 28 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 28 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, 55.  I washed.  Jim and Marilyn went to Conn. to see about a job.  Kids stayed with us. Clifton went to creamery at Roxbury.  Stella (Rogers) and children were here in afternoon.  Ethridge got a load of hay.  Jim and Marilyn ate supper with Paul and Norma.  Earl and Bob were here at night.  Bob went to ballgame with David and Wayne.
Comment:  Again, lots of callers and traveling...Mom must love the fact the Marilyn and family are home again......their family about that time...62 years ago....

Tuesday, 27 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 27 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
We went to Oneonta and got a flat iron with S&H Green Stamps and on to Mother's for dinner. Wayne went too and got his driver's permit.  Clifton went to Union meeting at night, home late.
David was home and went to auction with Earl.
Comment:  Mom underlined home late...

Monday, 26 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 26 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Fourtie's, nice day.  Clifton and Jim went to Windham and around to look for a job.  Marilyn and I cooked and cleaned the house.  Had a letter from Doug, he thought he would come home next week.
Comment:  Early spring so the construction jobs would probably be opening up. Jim and I both drove for HB Moore out of Windham hauling clinker from Cobleskill to the cement plants near Hudson NY.  Here is a picture of Marilyn and Jim's kids:  Marna, Dan and Patty in 1961 on the Hill...

Sunday, 25 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 25 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, 30's.  went to Sunday School and church and all of us down to LaVerne's for dinner. Clifford and Evelyn, Winnie, Rudy, Randy, Earl, Bob and Ronnie called in pm.  Marilyn and Carol sang at church, "Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary"
Comment:  Now that's what I call a family Sunday...here is the best version of the hymn that I can find....I'll bet they did a great job...wonder who sang harmony...

Saturday, 24 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 24 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We washed and ironed for Gerald.
Comment:  It's all about me.......Protecting the homeland....

Friday, 23 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 23 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sue and Wayne home with sore throats.  We ironed.  Clifton and Jim cut a load of wood.  Ethridge got a load of hay.  I bought four magazines for four years?!!?
Comment:  Mom excited about the magazines....another picture of Jim and probaby his brother Doug with a grandfather?....

Thursday, 22 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 22 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Forty degrees.  I washed.  Marilyn, Jim and two kids went to Cobleskill.  Marna stayed here.  Sue was home with a sore throat.  Marilyn and I went to Margaretville in afternoon to see Ella, Margaret, Irene and Ivan.  Stella (Rogers) called Marilyn.
Comment:  Lots of neighbors in the hospital....Jim Harris, back row middle, with parents and siblings..

Wednesday, 21 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 21 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, rain turning to snow.  Sue came home with a sore throat.  Called Pearl and heard that Ella and Irene still both in hospital.  Ironed nearly all day.  Went to prayer meeting at night at Leonard's (Reynolds).  Marilyn was the leader.
Comment:  A badass Marine....Jim Harris, Sister Marilyn's Husband

Tuesday, 20 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 20 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We went to Mother's for dinner.  Ella was taken to Margaretville Hospital with pneumonia.  Irene Brown was take too with pleurisy. 
Comment:  Tough start to the spring for some folks.....Aunt Ella on the Hill...Larry, Ella, Frances, Wayne's wife Susan....

Monday, 19 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 19 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day. 35 degrees.  We, (Jim's and us) went to Stamford in am and stopped where LaVerne works. Phyllis and Sheilla and LaVerne and Roberta were here in afternoon.  Billie called and said Louis Mack was in hospital with blood clot and Betty Jean was in hospital too.
Comment:  Phyllis must be Phyllis West and her daughter up to see Marilyn.  Not sure who Louis Mack was.  Betty Jean was Betty Jean Kingsley...Kool Aid ad from 1962...sure drank a lot of that during haying season.  

Sunday, 18 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 18 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 30's.  We all went to church and Sunday School, David, Wayne too.  Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I went to church in the afternoon for lessons on visitation.  Evelyn and Clifford came in pm and here for supper.  Barry, Bev, Glenn, Patsy, Bonnie here later. Ethridge got a small load of hay in am.
Comment:   Busy Sunday....The whole Clifford's visit...on a sad note, Glenn has only about two more years to live...he died  April 11, 1964...Here are Evelyn and her grandson Mark Taylor in 1978

Saturday, 17 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 17 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We washed and baked.  LaVerne and Roberta here in the evening.  Men went in woods in am, saw broke.
Comment:  No St. Pat's revelry here.....John Kennedy's St. Patrick's Day Statement:

Friday, 16 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 16 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Thirties, little snow squally.  We ironed, Marilyn baked a batch of cookies and rolls and cinnamon buns.  Clifton and Jim went with Ethridge with a load of logs to Stamford.  Gerald came home about 530 pm.  Earl, Lillian and Bob here in evening.
Comment:  Bet the house smelled great......Jim and his siblings?..sure resembles Hubbard Hill in the early fifties.....

Thursday, 15 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 15 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 20's.  Marilyn and I cleaned up the house and went calling on Ethyl at Maude's, on Margaret's, Roberta and Merels.  The men went over to Earl's before school to help get the cow up again.  Had a letter from Doug.
Comment:  Marilyn catching up with friends and family...the whole family in 1962...kinda weird to see for some reason....of course, was 62 years ago....

Wednesday, 14 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 14 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Still cloudy and storming.  We washed, went to prayer meeting at Lyle's at night, Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I.  Clifton and Jim cut a load of wood.  Earl was over to get the men to help with a fresh cow. LaVerne and Roberta were here in the afternoon for a few minutes.
Comment:  Must be something pretty wrong with Earl's cow.  A "fresh" cow is one that is having a calf and usually it is pretty routine with no help needed.  The cow usually isn't seen for a while and then is found with a newborn calf.......Here is Patty on the Hill at that time:  

Tuesday, 13 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 13 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snowy.  We all went to Mother's for dinner, Jim's and us.  Ethridge got a load of hay. Gerald came home at night to see Marilyn and Jim.
Comment:  The family gathers.....Dean and Jim on the hill, 1962

Monday, 12 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 12 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Windy, I washed.  Marilyn, Jim and children came at 11 am.  They had driven through from North Carolina.
Comment:  Short entry probably caused by the reunion.....

Sunday, 11 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 11 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice, warm, went to Church and Sunday School and at Raymond and Irene Brown's twenty-fifth anniversary in pm.  Lorraine and Howard's, LaVerne and Roberta here in the afternoon.
Comment:  A twenty-fifth anniversary used to seem such a big deal but since we are facing our sixtieth, not so much. Happy Birthday Wayne Morris Hubbard, B 3.11.1946, D 12.3.2005, Age 59 years old.  His Uncle Earl and Aunt Madeline died at about the same age of heart problems.....does he look cool or what??

Saturday, 10 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 10 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny 46 degrees.  Clifton, Wayne and girls went to Catskill to find out what Wayne had won.  Robert brought David home and girls went back with her in am.  I washed in am and baked, ironed pants and shirts in pm.
Comment:  Another mystery, I don't have a clue about Wayne's winnings......and the top hits:  

Friday, 9 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 9 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 34.  I washed.  Clifton cut logs and a load of wood.  Ethridge got a load of hay and paid in full, $41.46.  Earl, Lillian, LaVerne, and Roberta were here at night.  David went home with LaVerne and Roberta to draw mail because we were supposed to have snow but didn't get any.  Marilyn called from Shelby, NC and said they would be here Monday or Tuesday.
Comment:  In a conversation with Dean Harris and wife awhile ago he recalls the trip across country with his parents... this picture is from about that time:  Dean, Jim, Patty, Marna.....

Thursday, 8 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 8 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny day, warmer, 38 degrees.  I baked cookies for the PTA, wrote to Myrtie and went to Missionary Meeting in pm at church.  Madalyne went with me.  Sent cookies to PTA with Madalyne.  Had card from Marilyn, they were in Texas when it was sent on Monday. Gulf Oil Company agent was here about boundaries.
Comment:  I think Dad may have sold the gas and mineral rights of the property but not sure.  I don't have any records of it for my property there.  Marilyn and Jim heading to NY to stay for about a year......

Wednesday, 7 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 7 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny day, 32 degrees.  I washed bedding and slip covers and cleaned all through.  Prayer meeting at night.  Wrote to Doug.  Earl stopped in and asked us to go to Winnies with them but we didn't go.  Clifton cut logs.  Evelyn Bailey here in pm about Stanley goods, bought floor wax.
Comment:  Pretty busy day.....  

Tuesday, 6 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 6 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, roads icy.  I kept the kids home because of icy roads.  We went to Middleburgh diner for dinner then on to Cobleskill.
Comment:  For Mom to keep the kids home, the conditions must have been pretty bad...Dad had a neon green Plymouth just like this....I did severe damage to it twice, both times in Prattsville...what's that tell you....that damned Prattsville Tavern

Monday, 5 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 5 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, very light snow in am.  Fine rain in pm,  25 degrees.  I washed in am and ironed in pm and baked rolls.  Marilyn and Jim's mail was forwarded here.  A letter from their bank and a letter of mine returned.  We called Doug at the Chicken Farm and he said Marilyn and Jim left March 1st.  LaVerne and Roberta here at night.  David went home with them to go with Roberta with the mail because of icy roads.  Ethridge got a load of logs.
Comment:  A longer entry...did not realize Doug was in California....The World's Fair was held in Seattle in 1962 and thence came the space needle....

Sunday, 4 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 4 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice, warmer, 20's, cloudy in pm.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Beverly came home with us and stayed all night.  Clifford's were over to Earl's for Dinner.
Comment:  Don't know who Beverly is.....1962 Coke Ad...Was it a simpler time, not sure......

Saturday, 3 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 3 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, cold, minus 8 to 15 above.  Gerald went back in the afternoon for play practice.  David and Wayne cut a load of wood.
Comment:  I practice, brothers work, seems ok to me....our search options sure have changed.....

Friday, 2 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 2 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Bright and cold, eight below to 15 above.  I washed.  David was home with a boil, he and Clifton cut a little wood.  Gerald came home at 5 pm.  Wayne went to the game at Duanesburg.  Clifton, the girls and I went to a "42" party at Louvilla's.  Keyers, Cammers and Chip's were there too.  Betty Jean was home for two weeks vacation.
Comment:  Busy Friday night...from 1962...the latest in telephones, now, all and more included in your smartphone....

Thursday, 1 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 1 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Bright, clear, cold, 15.  Clifton and David went to Windham and Albany.  I finished my dress.  Sue was home with a stiff neck and headache.
Comment:  Clear and cold bring back the memories of how beautiful it was in those mountains....from Visions Of Schoharie County:  

Wednesday, 28 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 28 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy and foggy.  I ironed.   Invited Earl and Lillian over for dinner.  Etheridge got a load of hay. Wrote to Marilyn.
Comment:  Bartering hay for log hauling...Earl and Lillian in the dining room of the Hubbard Hill House...

Tuesday, 27 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 27 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy, foggy, Wayne was home, we all three went to Cobleskill and Mother's for dinner.
Comment:  Unemployment sign up.......Aunt Winnie on Student Council, 1936, Savella Beers was my 4th grade teacher and of course Mr. Peckham threw me out of school about five times or so.....fond memories....

Monday, 26 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 26 February 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy, 34 to 39.  Clifton and I went to Windham in am, stopped at Betty's a minute, Tom is in Canada.  I washed in pm.  I had a letter from Marilyn.
Comment:  Wonder if Tom was skiing in Canada.....he was one of the good guys...here is his Obituary.....unfortunately, it does not convey his kindness and respect he showed to some of his less fortunate cousins....never knew he was born in Ohio, I did not know his sisters, I do remember his father. Tom died about ten years younger than I am now which is certainly a cause for reflection....

Birth:	Mar. 16, 1928 Ohio, USA
Death:	Jul. 13, 2004
PRATTSVILLE, NY — Thomas O'Hara, 76, of Prattsville died on Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital, Oneonta. Born on March 16, 1928, in Steubenville, Ohio, he was the son of the late Albert and Clara (Kipp) O'Hara. Mr. O'Hara married Betty Y. Hubbard, on June 6, 1948. Besides his wife, he is survived by his children, Michael O'Hara, Mary O'Hara, Ann O'Hara Gurecki, Erin O'Hara Meyer; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; a cousin, Olive Cronk Van Aken; and many nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by two sisters, Mary Lou O'Hara Wade and Christine O'Hara Daly. He was the proprietor of O'Hara's Trading Post, a family owned business in operation for more than 50 years in Prattsville. Mr. O'Hara was a member of the Prattsville Fire Company, Virgil E. Deyo American Legion Post in Prattsville and the Scotch Valley Ski Patrol. Visitation will be held at the Decker Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 15. A mass of the Resurrection will be held at noon on Friday, July 16, at St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church, Grand Gorge. Private cremation will follow at the Albany Rural Crematory in Menands. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his memory may be made to the Prattsville Rescue Squad, American Heart Association, American Lung Association or the Virgil E. Deyo American Legion Post. Arrangements are with Decker Funeral Home 134 Main St., Windham.
Burial: Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown.

Sunday, 25 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 25 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Ten to 35 degrees, sunny beautiful day.  We went to church and Sunday School. LaVerne and Roberta were here for dinner and supper.  Girls went to BYF in afternoon.
Comment:  Family Sunday...two years later Cassius Clay would knock out Sonny Liston in on of the greatest boxing upsets in boxing history...and the meme "Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee" was born....."On February 25, 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay shocks the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout. The dreaded Liston, who had twice demolished former champ Floyd Patterson in one round, was an 8-to-1 favorite. However, Clay predicted victory, boasting that he would "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" and knock out Liston in the eighth round. The fleet-footed and loquacious youngster needed less time to make good on his claim--Liston, complaining of an injured shoulder, failed to answer the seventh-round bell. A few moments later, a new heavyweight champion was proclaimed."  

Saturday, 24 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 24 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, snow all day, not too cold, 18-22.  Four to six inches of new snow.  Clifton made out state income tax.  I washed.
Comment:  Typical February day....Evelyn and Ina Belle, class of '34 in 1936 Alumni section Gilboa Reflector....Maid In Waiting:    a young woman of a queen's or princess's household appointed to attend her...Wonder where she was working....

Friday, 23 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 23 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, warm.  We all went to LaVerne's at night.  Mrs. Renz and children were there and Debbie.  LaVerne's birthday.  It started to snow about 10pm and snowed all night. David and Wayne went to Middleburgh at night and got plugs and points put in the Plymouth.  Gerald was home early.
Comment:  Happy Birthday Clifton LaVerne....

Tuesday, 22 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 22 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, warm 36 to 40 degrees.  Clifton and boys cut log in am and Ethridge, Clifton and David took them to Fleischmanns in pm.
Comment:   Ethridge Goodfellow was a neighbor farmer with who made his living farming and trucking.....

Wednesday, 21 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 21 February 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, light snow, 18.  I washed.  Clifton and I went to Dick Mattice's funeral at Middleburgh.  the girls stayed at Bitle's.  Clifton and boys cut logs in am.  Ethridge got a load of hay in pm.  The girls and I went to a prayer meeting at Keepers.
Comment:  Dad must be bartering with Ethridge Goodfellow, we give him hay, he hauls the logs for us......Dad had his own trucking business in the early thirties.  Ethyl Haskin's diary has many entries of  Leonard and Almon Haskins working for him.  The business came to a sad end when one of his drivers ditched a truck with a load of cement and was killed.  I recount this in "Me, LaVerne & Franklin Brown:  take a listen:  http://hubbardfamilymusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/me-laverne-franklin-brown-talking-blues.html

Tuesday, 20 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 20 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snow flurries and windy, about 18.  John Glenn went into orbit three times around the earth.  We went to Cobleskill in pm.  Got Carol shoes and Susan sneakers.
Comment:  The orbits must have been a shock to Mom's belief system.  I distinctly remember arguing with her about us going to the moon and she absolutely believed it was not God's will that we do so....

Sunday, 18 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 18 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
We went to church and Sunday School.  Mr. Mayo here for dinner.  David and Wayne were with Bobby  Briggs.  Gerald went back in am.  Had play practice.  We went down to LaVerne's in pm. Dick and Joan Hitchcock and family were there.
Comment:  Aunt Winny as a Junior in high school....

Saturday, 17 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 17 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snow flurries, 20's.  Clifton and boys cut a load of wood.  I washed again.  Broke tractor, David went to Middleburgh after the part.
Comment:  It's always something.....from the 1936 Gilboa HS yearbook....

Friday, 16 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 16 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloud, 20's, started to snow 230pm..light snow.  I washed and cleaned all through.

Clifton skidded out more logs, he went to Etheridge's to see about him hauling them but he wasn't home.  Earl and Lillian went to NYC for their first anniversary.  Clifton called conservation department.  We went to ball game at night.   David and Sarah went too. Gilboa lost to Middleburgh.
Comment:Not sure who Sarah is.

Thursday, 15 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 15 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Fair 20's.  Missionary Meeting and Madalyn's, only four of us there.  Clifton drew logs. We went to Gene's and LaVerne's at night, no one home.  Wrote to Marilyn.
Comment:  Gene's is Gene Hallock, Flora Del's father.......more from the 1936 GCH Reflector...Dad and Evelyn mentioned in the alumni section:  

Wednesday, 14 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 14 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Twenties, started to snow before daylight and snowed all day and night.  David and Clifton went to Albany, couldn't find the place, I ironed.
Comment:  Hmmm, wonder what they were looking for......1936 Reflector Alumni, Evelyn and Ina Belle, Class of '34

Tuesday, 13 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 13 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, 38 degrees.  We went to Schoharie and Cobleskill in pm.  We all went over to Earl's at night.
Comment:  The Tuesday trip to sign up for unemployment insurance.  From the 1936 GCCHS...the buses and bus drivers....Uncle Merle is fourth in line.....

Monday, 12 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 12 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, zero to thirty.  Sue home with a cold.  I washed.  Clifton skidded logs with the big tractor.  Had a sick headache all day.  Had letter from Marilyn.
Comment:  The big tractor was a tricycle Farmall H with 600 lbs of  calcium liquid in each rear tire for traction and and it really was quite a rig.  In fifth gear it went about 20 or so mph and very maneuverable.  I almost tipped it over trying to herd cows with it.  I put it up on one rear wheel and it seemed like forever before it righted itself...another lucky break.....

 

Sunday, 11 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 11 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Minus 20 to minus 15, sunny.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Picked up Kingsley's, their car wouldn't start.  LaVerne's and us went over to Mother''s in pm and stayed for dinner.
Comment:  Brutally cold, 1940 Gilboa Reflector, Merel Jr is in the last row far right....know any others??

Saturday, 10 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 10 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, about 3 inches of new snow, 20 below zero.  we went to Bruce's funeral, kids stayed here.  Sue took her music lesson.  Gerald went back at night to a party. LaVerne and Roberta were here for supper.  Broke axle on big tractor.
Comment:  Another kinda tough day on the hill.....

Friday, 9 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 9 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 18 degrees.  I wrote to Doug, washed, Clifton went to Middleburgh after part for chain saw.  We went to ball game at night.  Gerald came home.  Snow in pm at night.
Comment:  Our equipment broke down a lot it seems and as kids and teenagers, the breakdown was a welcome break from the work and sometime involved a trip after parts to Middleburgh or Cobleskill or even Schenectady or Albany.  I remember vying for the chance to take a cool ride in the summer or a warm one

in the winter.  Ahhh, the small pleasures.....