January 19, 1788
Posted by sydney on Jan 19th, 1788
Received from London a quarter of an hundred of Salt fish.
January 10, 1788
Posted by sydney on Jan 10th, 1788
The dry summer killed the new planted Sycamore on the plestor.
January 8, 1788
Posted by sydney on Jan 8th, 1788
Old John Carpenter planted a Sycamore tree on the Plestor near the pound. Furze blows. The amenta of hasels open & shed their farina. Ivy-berries swell.
January 7, 1788
Posted by sydney on Jan 7th, 1788
The woodmen begin to fell beeches in the hanger for the second time: they now enter where they left off last year on the S.E. side of Shop-slidder.
January 1, 1788
Posted by sydney on Jan 1st, 1788
Contracted my great parlor chimney by placing stone-jams on the top of the grate on each side, & building brick-work on the jams as high as the work-man could reach. This expedient has entirely cured the smoking, & given the chimney a draught equal to that in the old parlor.
December 30, 1787
Posted by sydney on Dec 30th, 1787
Some of our hollow lanes are not passable.
December 27, 1787
Posted by sydney on Dec 27th, 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.
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