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of preposition Used to indicate a habitual or frequent activity in phrases such as of a day, of an evening, of a night, etc. [DARE labels this usage "chiefly South, South Midland" in the U.S.]

1862 Robinson CW Letters (May 20) it is Cold anuff hear of amorning for frost. 1910 Cooke Power and Glory 66 Shade used to meet her of an evening when she would be coming from the hospital. 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) We would gather our apples in of a day and peel our apples of a night and put them out on a scaffold. 1956 GSMNP-24:42 We'd cook our squirrels of a night over a thing like that out there ... We cook them of a night. 1998 Dante OHP-24 He'd take us over there of a morning, and we'd catch a bus back of the evening.