1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries hand-painted wooden animal I'd frame this up and

I'd frame this up and hang it in the bathroom straight away

with definite age to it

with the only loss a few minor splits to the cedar wrapping the rim--very minor and not visible with lid on

I read this figure as a woman

1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries hand-painted wooden animal I'd frame this up andI 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