August 11
Posted by sydney on Aug 11th, 2008
- 1791: August 11, 1791 – Half hogshead of portwine from Southhamton. Gleaners come home with corn.
- 1789: August 11, 1789 – Got-in forest-fuel in nice order. Farmer Knight begins wheat harvest. Lovely weather.
- 1787: August 11, 1787 – The children in strawberry time found & destroyed several pheasant’s nests in Goleigh wood. Nep. and Niece Ben White came from London.
- 1782: August 11, 1782 – Five swifts at E. Tisted.
- 1781: August 11, 1781 – Ponds & streams fail. People in many parts in great want of water. The reapers were never interrupted by rain one hour the harvest thro’.
- 1780: August 11, 1780 – The Papilio Machaon never appeared but once in my garden.
- 1774: August 11, 1774 – One of my vines looks pale & sickly. Ivy budds for bloom: it blows in Octr & Novr. and the fruit ripens in April.
- 1772: August 11, 1772 – Wheat-harvest becomes pretty general. Barom. sinks & rises to it’s former pitch.
- 1771: August 11, 1771 – Heavy clouds round the horizon. Lambs play, & frolick.
- 1768: August 11, 1768 – Wheat harvest is pretty general. The male and female flying ants, leaving their nests, fill the air. See Gould on ants.
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