1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries echo Another old penmanship notebook

Another old penmanship notebook

and blooming rose on the other side

with bold black for emphasis--feels like the voice of God from on high

with a few tiny white marks in one area

which I think could be read as a totem of sorts

1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries echo Another old penmanship notebookI find these very tender things and the perfect thing to share with a young person who thinks life is hard: day after day of mopping, and baking, washing dishes and chopping wood, and killing hogs just before Christmas, with the weather report tending to correspond to what chores could be completed on any given day. One is an almanac from 1886, the other 1888, the former completed for just for part of the year, the other all of the way through. I just