DEAR DIARY – MAY 27 – June 7, 1961
Dear Diary,
5/27/61 – I played all day. C & E (great aunt and uncle) came over Grandmas.
5/28/61 – I played. We went to church. When we got home I played with J (cousin)
5/29/61 – I went to school. when I came home I played. Grandpa came over.
5/30/61 – I played with J (cousin). She and V (cousin) spent the night.
5/31/61 – I went to school. It was the last day. When I came home we went to the store. Then to the dime store.
6/1/61 – I played. It was mother’s birthday. We went to town. I got her a box of powder, and a vace (vase) of flowers. P (sister) got her a bottle of perfume. N (aunt) got her a perfume bottle. J (cousin) and D (cousin) got her some flowers. I spent the night over J’s (cousin)
6/2/61 – I played all day. J (cousin) and i played in the water. Then we went to the driving range. (golf). B (aunt) went with us.
6/3/61 – We played. We went to get Dusty (our dog) and Toro (grandma’s dog) vaxanatied (vaccinated). Then we went to Grannys. T (uncle) was over. Granny went home with him. We went to the dime store. We got a 101 Dalmations set. (I think this was one of those Playform vinyl punch-out & stick on a scene things that was so popular back then.)
6/4/61 – I played. We went to Grandmas. Then we went to B’s (aunt) Daddy and H (uncle) went glofing (golfing) at night. Grand pa came over and ate supper with us.
6/5/61 – I played. I gathered Black berries. We went to town. We bought a desk. When we came home I played. M & O (friends of parents) came over. A storm came.
6/6/61 – I played all day. Mother got a permenint (permanent for her hair)
6/7/61 – We went to town. Then we went to the Bakery.
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Thanks for visiting! Peace }i{
© 2016 BS
I’ve enjoyed your diary. Playing came high on your priorities, didn’t it? I bet a lot of that “playing” was pretty active. Have a Happy New Year.
Thanks, Oneta! I imagine we did play hard in those days, and was mostly outside. We sure didn’t have video games to stare at, so we had to use our imagination. 🙂 Happy New Year to you, also!
Always LOVE the diary entries! Thanks for sharing. Curious, were you gathering blackberries in our hometown? Don’t think I know their ‘season.’
Thanks, Kelly! Glad you’re enjoying reading these. Those black berries…well, our neighbor had a black berry bush/vine ? right up next to our fence. Some of it grew through to our side and I always picked off the ripe ones. It was always sometimes in the summer. 🙂
This is the first time I’m seeing the diary entries. I love it! (It sounds a lot like mine were when I was growing up.)
Thanks, Kat! Glad you enjoyed reading. There are quite a few posts of them under Dear Diary. I kept this one that I wrote in when I was 10 years old. 🙂
I have my diaries in a box here that I keep safe from prying eyes.
Good idea. I wish I’d kept my later diares though. I guess I destroyed the evidence of what was in them, because I have never seen them again. Wouldn’t be posting any of that for sure! haha