1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries echo and some scratches and a

and some scratches and a few dark marks visible on one side

I'm not sure the maker

and symbol

and blooming rose on the other side

which I think could be read as a totem of sorts

1886 + 1888 Almanacs with Handwritten Daily Diaries echo and some scratches and aI 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