Monday, March 12, 2018

Thrift Is Thirsty Work

Dusty and dry. Luckily SVDP is just a few blocks from a local brewery, which serves tacos.


At the thrift store I bought an old book:
Minnesota Farmers' Diaries: William R. Brown, 1845-46; Mitchell Y. Jackson, 1852-63, Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1939.


These are the texts of actual diaries from what was the frontier era of the midwest.

I like reading about the coming of spring. One hundred & sixty years ago on March 21, 1858, Jackson writes:
 after a week of Spring it is a little cool to day   We commenced plowing on Wednesday 17 on Alexanders low prairie  Find the ground full wet but stick to it.  and he & I togather have plowed about 10 acres.  On Friday we were greeted by our old friends the Robbins and larks mixed with Geese Ducks & Blackbirds  The Snow birds mostly disappeared the day before.  So that if we are not to have Spring early the birds are to be disappointed as well as ourselves
I would note that it's sunny and warm (40ยบ F), with heaps of snow all around. But the roads are dry, and I rode my new bike for the first time since I'd biked it home from the bike shop 10 days ago. 

I saw my first Robbin of the spring at a community garden on the sunny north side of the path.