February 10
Posted by sydney on Feb 10th, 2008
- 1791: February 10 – Brewed strong beer.
- 1790: February 10, 1790 – Bullfinches pick the buds of damson-trees.
- 1787: February 10, 1787 – Took Mrs. Etty’s ashes, 28 bushels; paid her.
- 1784: February 10, 1784 – No hares have frequented the garden since the man shot, & killed one, & wounded an other.
- 1783: February 10, 1783 – Sheep rot very much. Ewes & lambs are much distressed by the continual wet.
- 1781: February 10, 1781 – The nuthatch brings his nuts almost every day to the alcove, & fixing them in one corner of the pediment drills holes in their sides, & after he has picked out the kernels, throws the shells to the ground.
- 1775: February 10, 1775 – Mezereon in fine bloom. Peter Wells’s well runs over. Spiders, woodlice, lepismae in cupboards, & among sugar, some empedes, gnats, flies of several species, some phalenae in hedges, earth-worms, &c., are stirring at all times when winters are mild; & are of great service to those soft-billed birds that never leave us.
- 1774: February 10, 1774 – Weather shifts continually from frost to rain to the detriment of the wheat & turneps. Wheat looks sadly, & is almost heaved-out of the ground.
- 1773: February 10, 1773 – Severe frost. Bottles of water freeze in chambers. Snow in the night. Cutting air.
- 1772: February 10, 1772 – Made cucumber bed. Snow gone on the hills. Winter aconite blows.
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