17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Sunday, November 10, 1912: Went out to Sunday School this morning. This afternoon I went over to see Margaret. Such a time as I had getting there a crawling under fences and so on.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Whew, it sounds like a lot of work to crawl under fences and so on (whatever that means) to visit a friend.
I don’t know who Margaret was; I don’t think that she’s ever previously been mentioned in the diary.
Until this diary entry, I’d always assumed that Grandma walked along roads to when visiting friends.
A Hundred Years Ago 
It must have been hard on her clothes to crawl under fences and whatnot.
Hopefully it wasn’t muddy.
Must have been a big short cut.
I agree! If it had been only a little shorter, it seems like she definitely would have used a road.
I wonder who she was trying to avoid by not going via the road? mmmmm?
Hmm–that’s an interesting thought. I know that Grandma’s friend Carrie Stout lived on the road between the Muffly farm and McEwensville. Maybe Grandma thought that Carrie would be annoyed that Grandma was going to visit a different friend and was trying to avoid her.