Saturday, November 21, 1953
Shirtsleeves some again! Had lotsa help- went work at 6!! After work, got Sandy & brought her here – supper, TV, homework, etc.
Work Type: Ray Romine Diaries
Ray Romine – 1953-11-20
Friday, November 20, 1953
Wonderful shirt sleeve weather again! Raining a mite tonite – Very unusual – driest weather ever. Overtime 50″ & still in hole horribly. Trella & Kathy to Jr. play at school (‘Doney) tonite.
Ray Romine – 1953-11-19
Thursday, November 19, 1953
Day off. Beautiful DRY weather again – Put lock on greenhouse; Trella sprinkled lawn. P.M. Ray Hemmerly & I dubbed at greenhouse smoke stack mostly!! I put light inside from true greenhouse lead tonite, with switch. Trella to make Upper Sandusky talk tonite. I read letters, Sandy, Baker, etc.
Ray Romine – 1953-11-18
Wednesday, November 18, 1953
Tuff mail – allowed overtime – not me, I says! SHIRTSLEEVES p.m. again. Home for lunch. H & J* here when we got home (we’d stopped to see Cora – Dad not there); tramped acres b/4 dark, quick supper, & they stayed till 9:30. Nice evening. Trella spraying stuff now for talk [shorthand]
[*Hazel Chase and John Gill, fellow nature enthusiasts from Galion]
Ray Romine – 1953-11-17
Tuesday, November 17, 1953
Laid off- said “knee”, & Trella & I to Columbus: Xmas- talk shopping- (Hills, Smith & Young), bookstore, dime-stores, Esther Weakly (not there). Thomas*, Home 5:15 or 5:30 (?). I messed lining up Skippers tonite. Trella to bed with headache. Perfect weather! Warm, etc. Ray Hemmerly out today with stovepipe etc. for greenhouse.
[* probably Edward Sinclair Thomas, Columbus lawyer and naturalist]
Ray Romine – 1953-11-16
Monday, November 16, 1953
($148.34) Sa-well weather! Shirtsleeves- unbelievable fall, but dryest ever. Home at noon. We mixed batch concrete ‘fore dark for greenhouse stove base – Trella smoothed it! She to Burroughs; I showered, wrote 3 letters, cartooned.
Ray Romine – 1953-11-15
Sunday, November 15, 1953
Perfect weather! Trella worked shop a.m.; design school in Columbus rest o’ day. I “fixed” pumps, watered lawn, planted IRIS seed crop; painted shack window & door, etc, till 5. Cartooned, pomes, read tonite.
Ray Romine – 1953-11-14
Saturday, November 14, 1953
Nicer. Home after carrying trip. Trella in town 3:30. I got Sandy at home, & we rode & talked & ate L&K & talked some more! Tonite, gang out here – nice quiet time.
Ray Romine – 1953-11-13
Friday, November 13, 1953
Nice weather. Called Sandra Jean p.m. at office. Had bad spell about her tonite, while workin’ on erecting living room cornices – got them up. Trella cleaned etc. all day- till 9:30 at least tonite.
Ray Romine – 1953-11-12
Thursday, November 12, 1953
wORK 6:30. Had help! Home for lunch. After work we hauled concrete blocks from Ralstons in truck. I laid 2 window “wells” b/4 dark. Tonite, varnished cornices & hall baseboard, cartooned while Trella ironed. I wrote Sandy.