I went down to a party of Win's in Ada's ballroom. I was pretty late getting there and felt tired and sleepy when I left home, but got rather braced up down there. We had to say good bye to the Billing's to-night as they are going to-morrow morning, we were all very sorry to see them go. It looked very rainy early this morning but cleared off into a beautiful mild fore noon but this after noon it clouded up again and the wind veered to the north and got very cold and is freezing to-night. Friday April 13th Dad. got up early this morning and went down to see the Billings off. He had breakfast down there. We were rather late getting the chores done up but when we did we ear marked all the lambs and put the association number in the ears of last year's lambs. We were just going to mark the little lambs the way we did last year with lampblack and oil on their sides but Frank had been readin in Kleinheintz's book that they couldn't be too young to have the ear tags put in so we thought we would try it. It saves going over them twice and the lampblack and oil makes bad spots in the fleece but we hated to do it to the little fellows. We did the last five after dinner. About four o'clock