December 27
Posted by sydney on Dec 27th, 2008
- 1787: December 27, 1787 – A musca domestica, by the warmth of my parlor has lengthened out his life, & existence to this time: he usually basks on the jams of the chimney within the influence of the fire after dinner, & settles on the table, where he sips the wine & tastes the sugar & baked apples. If there comes a very severe day he withdraws & is not seen.
- 1785: December 27, 1785 – Tapped my new rick of hay this day, which, tho’ made without rain, is vapid, & without much scent ,& consists more of weeds than grass. The summer was so dry, that little good grass grew, ’till after the first crop was cut. The rick is also very small.
- 1783: December 27, 1783 – Mr. Churton came from Oxford.
- 1782: December 27, 1782 – Large flock of wood-pigeons in the north field.
- 1775: December 27, 1775 – On every sunny day the winter thro’, clouds of insects usually called gnats (I suppose tipulae & empedes) appear sporting & dancing over the tops of the ever-green trees in the shrubbery, & frisking about as if the business of generation was still going on. Hence it appears that these diptera (which by their sizes appear to be of different species) are not subject to a torpid state in the winter, as most winged Insects are. At night, & in frosty weather, & when it rains & blows they seem to retire into those trees. They often are out in a fog.
- 1769: December 27, 1769 – Here & there a lamb.
- 1768: December 27, 1768 – Weather more like April than ye end of December. Hedge-sparrow sings.
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