73 Turned cold in the night - about 3 in the morning & froze some. I cleaned up the pantry & blacked the stove swept & made a pie boiled pumkins & squash for supper. Paul went after Georges cart. I went after Marjorie started about 5 Oclock. got home late took 1 1/2 dozen eggs & 28 per doz & 4 1/2 butter @24. bought 2 tomatoes @5. bottle eclectric oil. 25 bromide gumme 25 2 pint 10 soda 5 raisins 10. soap 5 salmon 10. due bill 63. Fannie Arthur & Hattie over in the evening. they did not get home untill late. I made ginger cookies & milked 2 cows Sun 10 cold north west wind. The poor ducks hobling around yet. Arthur in the evening & Mary Jane Sommerville to tea at least we gave her a lunch she stayed untill 1 Oclock sun part of the time & dull part of the time Mon 11 looked like a storm spit rain once [[??]] I churned worked the butter made ginger patty pan cakes high wind from the south west in the fornnoon we had fresh roast pork for supper Marjorie swept & cleaned up the front room. Will went to pay his taxes Teu 12. dull part of the time with a little sun shine spit snow towards night. keeps soft Arthur finished ploughing down in the corner by the school house & the head land. I made 2 pies pumkin pies & plum tarts. had pan cakes for dinner Paul guarded the cows. Marjorie fixed her tweed waist & sleeves. I worked on Jims mittens the first for a long time its snowing tonight perhaps tomorrow The cows will not be lying down in the field full Wed 13 sunshine in the fornoon dull in afternoon I swept & washed the chairs cleaned the floor & made a cake for supper, then went down to sweep Laffy & Sam went with me & stayed untill I came home a little snow on the ground not froze very hard. Hattie over for tea Paul cleaned the Office Arthur threshed in the fornoon at Riexingers Marjorie got the supper she is knitting her gloves Thur. 14 wind north in the morning turned north east & snowed some enough to make it disargreable Paul walked to Chippawa got my shoes. had 4 1/2 @ 24 it ought to be 1.08 & they allowed 105 & nothing for 1/2 doz eggs 1 lb tea 25.1 gal oil 19 S wheat 25 cornstarch 8 lb rice 5 candy 5 Glycerine 10. Marjorie baked bread & worked at her gloves. I picked a chicken for supper & mended my black waist. Will was in he sent for a plug of ivy tobacco. Marjories duck sick was first one then the other ever since we got them Friday 15 dreadful cold in the fornoon wind north east - got the least bit warmer in the afternoon. I went down & swept & dusted out the school house Sam & Teddy went with me Ted sat under the stove Sam ran on & out of the window & tormented me all the time I was sweeping Hattie was here when I left I finished Jims mitten my tooth aches in at times it sets me wild The teacher walked home. Marjorie working at her gloves at night. She mended Pauls socks. The roads rough George brought over our mail Sat 16. nice sunshine, but freezing. rough roads Will Arthur Fannie went to Drummondville to buy Arthur an overcoat. Marjorie went with them to go