May 15
Posted by sydney on May 15th, 2009
- 1791: May 15, 1791 – Flesh flies get to be troublesome: hung out the meat-safe. Mrs Clements &c. left us.
- 1790: May 15, 1790 – Timothy the tortoise weighs 6 ae 12 oz. 14 drs.
- 1789: May 15, 1789 – Caught a mouse in the hot-bed: cut several cucumbers, but they are ill-shapen.
- 1788: May 15, 1788 – Sheared my white mongrel dog rover, & made us of his white hair in plaster for the ceilings. His coat weighted four ounces. The N.E. wind makes Rover shrink. A black bird has made a nest in my barn on some poles that lie on a scaffold.
- 1786: May 15, 1786 – Timothy began to march about at 5 in the morning.
- 1784: May 15, 1784 – The tortoise is very earnest for the leaves of poppies, which he hunts about after, & seems to prefer to any other green thing. Such is the vicissitude of matters where weather is concerned, that the spring, which last year was unusually backward, is now forward.
- 1781: May 15, 1781 – Killed some hundreds of shell-less snails about the garden. The boys every day kill some large wasps, that feed on the sycamore-bloom, on the Plestor. Several small wasps appear as well as large breeders.
- 1772: May 15, 1772 – The country dry as powder.
- 1771: May 15, 1771 – Vines begin to sprout, & shew leaves. Distant thunder, & showers about.
- 1770: May 15, 1770 – Chafers begin to abound. Grass-hopper lark chirps.
- 1769: May 15, 1769 – The ground dryed-up in a very extraordinary manner. Much barley lying in the dust without vegetating. Apple-trees well blown. Grass very short.
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