Sunday 12.31.78 Recovering from 24 hrs flu.
Watched football. (Rams vs. Vikings) (Houston vs. Patriots).
Seen the new year in with Shawn, Dana, Mary L.,
John Rink, Joan Rink and Teresa Stevenson and Charles.
Peach & Puddy fixed flat tire and left before midnight.
Grateful for a good year past.
Thursday was rainy.
With temperatures in the 40s.
New Year's Eve.
Henri Matisse, French painter, born 1869
Monday 1.1.79
Daily Lottery: 277
Watched Football all day.
Still not feeling too good.
New Year's Day.
President Abraham Lincoln
issued Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
Tuesday 1.2.79
Daily Lottery: 907
Today, Victor Abersol started in the lab.
We now have more people and very little work to do.
Nathaniel Bacon, colonial leader,
born 1647
Wednesday 1.3.79
Daily Lottery: 026
Big 50: Red - 885
White - 45
Blue - 9
Bonus: 728197
Baker's Dozen: Six: 936097
Five: 35468
Three: 050
Today was very cold.
Had a fire in the wood burner till about 10 p.m.
Still not feeling good.
Cicero, Roman statesman,
born 106 B.C.
Lucretia Coffin Mott,
women's-rights leader
born 1793
Thursday 1.4.79
Daily Lottery: 221
Another cold day.
Sure could use some help physically
but have to keep working as we need the cash.
Jakob Grimm
German fairy tale collector
born 1785
Friday 1.5.79
Daily Lottery: 721
Today, Jim Davis parked in the lab parking lot again.
Sure is a thoughtless stunt.
Had a good day physically and "thing" went quite well.
Got mad when I came home over ins for the car.
Mary just cancel ins and quit driving.
Shirley Lansberry called this evening and said
Jim Lansberry was having a break down.
I told Darb to get him to the DuBois Hospital.
Darb, Gary, Ken took him over.
Was admitted.
Took my chain saw over to Ed's Saw Shop.
Had it put together and runnin.
Zebulon Pike
American explorer
born 1779
Saturday 1.6.79
Daily Lottery: 385
Sawed some wood for the wood burner.
Saw worked very good.
Punk and Morgan went to Pittsburgh.
Kelly and Jim stayed with us.
Had a good fire going in wood burner in p.m.
Kelly and Jim stayed with us all night.
Nice having them.
Went to Ames and bought some
oil and gas container
for the chainsaw.
Epiphany
Joan of Arc
French heroine,
born 1412
Carl Sandberg
American writer
born 1878
Sunday 1.7.79
Shoveled walk for Vera & other neighbors.
Also did are drive way.
Punk & Morgan came down
and we watched football in the afternoon.
Later we moved furniture out of back room
So Leitzinger's can lay new carpet on Tuesday.
Fix hole in ceiling where bees came through.
Went to bed early.
First U.S. national presidential election, 1789
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