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Clara Steen Skott diary, 1942-1946
July 16
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92° 1942 Picked peas + beans, sent them in to locker with Sig when she got a shot. She had tooth pulled. I fixed second pair of Hans' white pants for Frank. Sig + I planted 3 rows G. B. corn. Very hot. 1943. Worked in garden. Planed glads + carrots, then it rained fine gentle rain. Elaine + Delores practised muffin in dem. Weeded. 91 [degrees] 1944. We 3 walked to church and back. Slept 2 hr. in P.M. Hilda biked out for a few minutes. Wrote Boston story for MTT. Typed 33 Red Cross notices to post in Harbor Terrace Apts. 1945. Rained all AM. We canned 4 qt. + 4 pt. beans from Al's garden. Rex washed + I hung out. Wrote letters - I helped him pick beans in eve. 1946 Composed "Pacific Sonnet" - tho rather faulty in rhyme structure. Read in magazine "Today's Woman" Miss Allan lent me. Again out a while. Fog still prevails, so read in lounge till 10.
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92° 1942 Picked peas + beans, sent them in to locker with Sig when she got a shot. She had tooth pulled. I fixed second pair of Hans' white pants for Frank. Sig + I planted 3 rows G. B. corn. Very hot. 1943. Worked in garden. Planed glads + carrots, then it rained fine gentle rain. Elaine + Delores practised muffin in dem. Weeded. 91 [degrees] 1944. We 3 walked to church and back. Slept 2 hr. in P.M. Hilda biked out for a few minutes. Wrote Boston story for MTT. Typed 33 Red Cross notices to post in Harbor Terrace Apts. 1945. Rained all AM. We canned 4 qt. + 4 pt. beans from Al's garden. Rex washed + I hung out. Wrote letters - I helped him pick beans in eve. 1946 Composed "Pacific Sonnet" - tho rather faulty in rhyme structure. Read in magazine "Today's Woman" Miss Allan lent me. Again out a while. Fog still prevails, so read in lounge till 10.
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