Another great week has passed by and we had a unique experience in the archives. There are times we have some big probate files but typically they involve using three or four folders to house all of the documents. In prepping this week I opened up a group of records for a woman named Isabel J Gale and found one section devoted just to her but then I opened up the next box in the series to find the whole box were only her documents and then they continued into a third box. Each box we do has three sections so you can see that is a lot of information for one person. Once I had everything put into individual folders we had a total of 37 folders! A new record for us. We will begin taking the pictures of each document starting tomorrow. If I remember next week I will tell you how many pictures we actually took to record all of her information! Speaking of remembering I wanted to let you know we found out the mystery of the damaged documents. I had mentioned earlier that either bugs or mice must have had a good time with a box of documents we were working on as much of the tops of each packets had been eaten away. I asked the head of the archives about it and he explained it wasn't bugs or vermin that had damaged the documents but acid in the documents. Apparently in the right conditions the acid in the paper will begin to dissolve the papers. They spend a huge amount of money when we need new folders because they purchase only archival quality folders so damage like that doesn't occur anymore.
We decided to stay close to home yesterday because we are taking Tuesday morning off to take the Sister missionaries to the Boston Temple. By 4 o'clock both of us were a little stir crazy! We aren't used to sitting around waiting for the day to end. We ended up going down to Manchester so I could do some shopping at Hobby Lobby and then we finished off at our favorite place in Nashua--Chic-fil-a for dinner. Turned into a nice Saturday after all!
Apparently we are going to have some uncomfortable days starting today through Thursday when it gets into the 90s, I am not complaining because the summer has been really nice and I think we actually have only had about 2 days all summer when it was in the low 90s. Perspective is everything! Most of the time we don't turn on our air conditioner because it sounds like a big rig is driving through the apartment. Instead we purchased two tower fans that we run and that has worked really well. Once the sun goes down the temperature drops into the 50s or 60s and it is lovely. I read somewhere that in the Farmers Almanac they are saying this is going to be an extreme winter for many area and since everyone here told us last year it was the worst winter they had remembered in years I probably should be a little nervous! We shall see. I hope you are all getting back into the routine of school again. It is hard to believe that summer is quickly coming to an end. Have a great week everyone!
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