Work Type: Ray Romine Diaries

Saturday, December 6, 1952
Rough go – about 3 hrs o’time. Dead tonite. Chili, (Sandy); bath, some TV & bed.

Friday, December 5, 1952
Over 5 hrs o’time! [illegible] worked till 10:30 tonite, nearly. To Trella’s for lunch.

Thursday, December 4, 1952
BACK TO WORK – 4 hrs 38″ o’time! Finished 10, going home for supper, bath. To Trella’s after lunch – nice time. Poohed. Home. Snow gone.

Wednesday, December 3, 1952
Still off but side is better. Coated back of “Acres” signs – pomed, bugged, etc. all day. To Trella’s tonite, after stopping Snider Hotel, at Hemmerly’s, then to Trella’s just long enuf to eat. Sandra Jean at her mom’s.

Tuesday, December 2, 1952
($161,97) (8 hrs o’time) Coated signs again. (Reg. day off) Went uptown at 11, check, bank, errands, & lunch at Trella’s. Got Sears Xmas order when I go Sandy after school. Home tonite.

Monday, December 1, 1952
Cold – 9 degrees F. Laid off (as of [illegible]) with “[illegilble] -in-two”. Painted 1 of coat yellow on “Acres” signs; bug-boxes inside; Poems p.m.; read & enjoyed the day. Bed early. Sandra Jean at her mom’s – stopped after school so I could sign grade-card. “A” in ‘[shorthard]’!

Sunday, November 30, 1952
Dubbed on makin’ signs for “Acres”, some Xmas cards, too. BBB, Trella, kids, Keith Brown & I to Acres – built fire in shack, planted daffodils in snow!; Kids coasted, Supper T’s & had Xmas sing tonite. Nice time.

Saturday, November 29, 1952
Coldish too. Asked for help – (H— of a mail) & got it! (Instead a’ b’ time) 1st real snow, 2-3″ starting after work. Nice – Sandy supper. I went to Trella’s tonite, getting keys to Caledonia shack & talking Mrs. Thomas on way up. Bed 1:00.

Friday, November 28, 1952
11 hrs 43″!! Put up mail (junk) 3 hrs 43″ or so after work. Sandra Jean had supper waiting. Coated bug boxes [shorthand] poems in, watched 1/2 hr. TV wit4h her & to bed after calling Trella. Lunch at Trella’s, noon.

Thursday, November 27, 1952
[shorthand] Up 6:30 (?) shaved, worked finishing (filler) bug boxes, painting kid’s stilts, pomes, Skippers case started re-arranging. Two SWELL meals at Trella’s; We tramped the Acres p.m. with Harold & Mary. Nice? (cold, too!!) Home early; wrote Hazel Chase after calling Dad and Sandy.