Mon 6 rained part of the night raining when we got up & off & on most of the day Mrs Walmsly brought the teacher. we had a chicken for supper. I made two pumkin pies & swept back rooms & boiled pig feed. Teu 7 looked as if we were going to have Indian Summer but turned & rained in the afternoon Marjorie & Hattie went to Drummondville had 13 3/4 butter @ 24 butter came to 3.30 sage. 10 cheese 17 coffee 25 tea 25 pain killer 25 gal oil 20 3 yds flannel & 4 castor oil 15. velveteen 50 socks 13 sodas 30 Raisins 16. 3.30 raining when they came home. I churned & worked the butter at night & pealed pear. I clean picked a chicken for supper. snowed in the night Wed 8 snow over everything but melting off The house turned cold in the afternoon Marjorie baking bread. I emptied the rag box a barrel full & two bags full got the settee out in wood house emptied the meal barrel. I was bussy all day at cleaning up the woodhouse, & boiling pig feed Arthur ploughing in the eleven acre field Thur 9 ground froze this morning when I went down to sweep & make fire. The school house something terrible. I churned & worked the butter for ourselves Mrs Reebs & the children to Tea. I made a cake & tarts for supper. Marjorie working at her jacket. Arthur started to plough in the pasture field the first time a furrow has been turned in 20 years. Paul gone after cabbage to Everinghams got 19 heads for 25. going to 65 freeze hard tonight.- bright moonlight Arthur over this evening Friday 10 Indian Summer started today. Will & Arthur butchered the pigs a beautiful day wind west or south west: when I went down to make fire in the school house so Paul could go after a barrel of water to bushes. I picked two chickens for dinner a black & a plymouthrock one fried & one stewed. they got them done in 2 hours & 10 min at night they carried them in & we covered them up from the cats Marjorie took the teacher down & a roll of butter 4 lbs @ 24 got a bottle of sage 5 cts somersavory shoe polish 5 cts 15 on the book. she got a cap for Paul & turkey red for Mrs Pounds quilt. I cleaned the entrals Sat 11. a nice day but high wind I put the entral fat on to cook washed the churn & swept befor we could get at the meat. The pigs one weighed 237 & the other 214 237 + 214 = 4.51 I scrubed the barrel & their tub the entrals in I salted the meat & skimed some of the sausage meat & after supper cleaned the entrals it struck eleven after I got in bed my back felt tired out Marjorie cleaned up the front room & the dining room & cleaned the oil cloth & aired the front room Sun 12 sun part of the time & dull part of the time. high wind looks like rain towards night Hattie came in & stayed the evening Mon 13 raining & snowing part of the day befor it started to rain Marjorie filled our tick