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Clara Steen Skott diary, 1942-1946

July 19

1942  Didn't sleep well - and found I was stiff from [jolt?], left knee bruised + front tooth loose + lip swollen.  Phoned about S.S. + 4H picnic arrangements - home alone all day.  Read + slept.  Sig home at 6
1943.  Hot washday.  Thru at 10:20.  Stemmed gooseberries Dean Davis brought.  Wrote Sig,  Hans, R.C. + news - Elaine + Delores practised muffin dem.
19[44?] Went to Washington on 9 o'clock bus.  Dr. Cox tested my eyes, then I went to Blohm Optical Co. to order glasses.  Bot black pair.  Home 1:30, nap, picked limas + first tomatoes.  Rain in eve.
88°  1945 Dressed 2 young chickens - Dora picked 1.  Picked peas + beets in Al's garden lettuce in ours, + helped Jo pick beans in eve.  To Ames at 11:30.  bought shorts, slacks, [pr.?] tennis shoes + robe for Sig.  Sent 1 pkg - Florence + I shopped around in P.M. She brought me home - Florence Byrnes here - society edition Washington Post.
69° 1946  Back to 30° 30'.  Beginning to get mild.  Fog till late PM.  when we saw blue sky again, a shower, then a rainbow.  Read all of Pearl Buck's "The Exile". Broke my watch crystal.  Me + Mrs. Price, wife of asst. director of UNRRA at Shanghai.  Letter from Kathryn!

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1942 Didn't sleep well - and found I was stiff from [jolt?], left knee bruised + front tooth loose + lip swollen. Phoned about S.S. + 4H picnic arrangements - home alone all day. Read + slept. Sig home at 6 1943. Hot washday. Thru at 10:20. Stemmed gooseberries Dean Davis brought. Wrote Sig, Hans, R.C. + news - Elaine + Delores practised muffin dem. 19[44?] Went to Washington on 9 o'clock bus. Dr. Cox tested my eyes, then I went to Blohm Optical Co. to order glasses. Bot black pair. Home 1:30, nap, picked limas + first tomatoes. Rain in eve. 88° 1945 Dressed 2 young chickens - Dora picked 1. Picked peas + beets in Al's garden lettuce in ours, + helped Jo pick beans in eve. To Ames at 11:30. bought shorts, slacks, [pr.?] tennis shoes + robe for Sig. Sent 1 pkg - Florence + I shopped around in P.M. She brought me home - Florence Byrnes here - society edition Washington Post. 69° 1946 Back to 30° 30'. Beginning to get mild. Fog till late PM. when we saw blue sky again, a shower, then a rainbow. Read all of Pearl Buck's "The Exile". Broke my watch crystal. Me + Mrs. Price, wife of asst. director of UNRRA at Shanghai. Letter from Kathryn!