November 8
Posted by sydney on Nov 8th, 2008
- 1792: November 8, 1792 – Planted 3 quarters of an hundred more cabbages to stand the winter: dug-up potatoes; those in the garden large, & fine, those in the meadow small, & rotting.
- 1791: November 8, 1791 – Planted one doz. of red hairy gooseberries, & one doz. of smooth amber, from Armstrong, in the quarters of the garden. Gathered-in the grapes: decaying. Two rills run now into my well, the water of which begins to get clear.
- 1787: November 8, 1787 – Rain, blowing, & showers. Stormy, hail. Red, turbid N. Aurora. Bror Henry’s grapes did not ripen well.
- 1786: November 8, 1786 – Mrs. Etty returned to Selborne.
- 1785: November 8, 1785 – A Gent: writes word from St. Mary’s, Scilly, that in the night between the 10th & 11th of this month, the wind being W. there fell such a flight of Woodcocks within the walls of the Garrison, that he himself shot & carryed home 26 couple, besides 3 couple which he wounded, but did not give himself the trouble to retrieve. On the following day, the 12th the wind continuing W. he found but few. This person further observes, that easterly & Northerly winds only have usually been remarked propitious in bringing Woodcocks to those islands, viz. Scilly. So that he is totally at a loss to account for this Western flight, unless they came from Ireland. As they took their departure in the night between the 11th & 12th, the wind still continuing West, he supposes they were gone to make a visit to the Counties of Cornwall & Devonshire. From circumstances in the letter, it appears that the ground within the lines of the Garrison abounds with furze. Some Woodcocks settled in the street of St Mary’s, & ran into the houses & out-houses.
- 1784: November 8, 1784 – The hanger is almost naked: some parts of my tall hedges still finely variegated: the fading foliage of the elm is beautifully contrasted to the beeches.
- 1783: November 8, 1783 – My niece of Alton (Clement) was brought to bed of a girl. This child makes my 40th nephew & niece, all living; Mr Clement, & Mr Brown inclusive.
- 1782: November 8, 1782 – Men are interrupted in their wheat-sowing in the mornings by hard frost.
- 1781: November 8, 1781 – The tortoise came out of his coop, & has buried himself in the laurel-hedge. When my great parlor is kept close shut-up it is not at all affected by condensations on on the wainscot or paper, tho’ the hall & entry are all in a float.
- 1780: November 8, 1780 – Gathered-in a great many grapes, because the vines cast their leaves. The crop of grapes is prodigious: perhaps the greatest I ever had.
- 1777: November 8, 1777 – Put the first coat of plaster on the battin work & ceiling of my new room.
- 1776: November 8, 1776 – Infinite quantities of haws & sloes. Nothing could be more lovely than the ride from Andover to Alresford over the Hants downs. The shepherds mow the charlock growing among the wheat. I saw no fieldfares all thro’ my Journey. If they come, as Rays says they do, “ventis vehementer spriantibus” they can have had no advantage of that kind; for the autumn has been remarkably still.
- 1773: November 8, 1773 – Snipes leave the moors & marshes which are flooded, & get up into the uplands.
- 1771: November 8, 1771 – Few petrifacations about Ringmer & Lewes. Ringmer soil not clay at top but brick-loam: bears good apples, pears, & grapes. Clay under, which holds water like a dish. The trees are mostly elms.
- 1770: November 8, 1770 – Heavy rain for 24 hours. Vast flood at Gracious street, & dorton.
- 1769: Novmeber 8, 1769 – Goldfinch & red-breast sing.
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