August 31

Posted by sydney on Aug 31st, 2008
  • 1792: August 31, 1792 – Many moor-hens on Comb-wood pond.
  • 1791: August 31, 1791 – Cut 31 cucumbers.  Fly-catcher still appears.
  • 1790: August 31, 1790 – Farmer Spencer’s wheat-rick, when it was near finished, parted, & fell down.  Charles, & Betty White came from Fyfield.
  • 1789: August 31, 1789 – Gathered a bushel-basket of well-grown cucumbers, 238 in number.  Molly White, & T.H. White left us, & went to London.
  • 1787: August 31, 1787 – Young hirundines cluster on the dead boughs of the walnut tree.
  • 1783: August 31, 1783 – Tremendous thunder-storm in London.  The stream which rises in James Knight’s upper pond has failed all this summer, as it does all very dry summers; so that the channel is dry down to the middle of the short Lithe; from whence there is always water running ’till it joins the Well-head stream at little Dorton.  This spring, which is at the bottom of the Church-litten-closes, seems to rise out of the hill on which the Church is built.  Timothy begins to frequent the border under the fruit-wall for the sake of warmth.
  • 1782: August 31, 1782 – Began to turn the horses into the great meadow: there is a fine head of grass. In the month of Aug. there fell 8 inch, 28h. of rain!
  • 1781: August 31, 1781 – Began to use endive, which is large & well-blanched. No swifts. We seached the eaves to no purpose. In searching the eaves for the young swifts, we found in a nest two callow dead swifts, on which had been formed a second nest. These nests were full of the black shining cases of the hippoboscae hirundinis.
  • 1780: August 31, 1780 – The season is so dry that no trufle-hunter has yet tryed my brother’s grove.
  • 1779: August 31, 1779 – The grass burns.
  • 1777: August 31, 1777 – ‘Til now the whole month of Aug. has been dry and pleasant.  The evenings begin to feel chilly.
  • 1776: August 31, 1776 – Fine harvest day.  Some corn housed.
  • 1774: August 31, 1774 – Spitting rain, with wind all day.  Wheat begins to grow.  Several nectarines rot on the trees.  Peaches rot: plums burst & fall off.
  • 1770: August 31, 1770 – Hop-picking begins.  Plants in the garden suffer from want of moisture.  Great N. Aurora considering the bright moon.
  • 1768: August 31, 1768 – Grapes begin to turn colour.  Nectarines ripe.  Stoparola brings out its young.

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