Wednesday February 25th We formulated a plan this morning whereby we were to have an early lunch and leave immediately afterwards for town dropping Gay off at Mrs. Lampkin's. I was to leave Marj. & Harry B down town and go over to the farm and get the team there and get a load of silage for myself, then if there wasnt time to bring it out here leave it at the farm all night. However our arrangements went the way of other of "the best laid schemes of mice & men", this time the weather being the diverting agent. I went over to the Lampkin's and Mrs. Lampkins quite joyfully agreed to keep the baby in spite of the fact that she had had a party last night which had not dispersed till two o'clock and that she was still lame & sore from a bad fall she had last Saturday. They have both had tumbles Dave fell a week ago yesterday and struck his head so that he was knocked senseless & remained dazed all day. Then on Saturday, the water was running so high over the road that Dave declared it impossible for him to reach the mail box and forbade her to attempt it. She however, was anxious to get the mail thinking there might be some word from Mrs. Schram who is sick in Hamilton, so while Dave was busy in the barn doing the evening chores, she started for the mail and got about halfway downhill when she slipped in the mud & fell, just in time for Dave to come to the back door & see her, so instead of sympathy she got scolded and told it served her right, which she thinks pretty hard after the way she played Good Samaritan to him. From there I followed the creek all the way through Shand's woods but couldn't locate my missing log. Just before dinner it began to rain and was soon raining quite hard and looked like an all afternoon shower so Marj. decided not to go to town but as she & the kids were all dressed up, she thought they would go over and pay Mrs Lampkin a visit anyway so I left them there and went on down town with 8 doz. eggs. I stopped in at the farm for awhile and went in to Aunty's to see when they could come out and they decided on Saturday, weather permitting I got the family on my way back & we got home about five. Thursday February 26th We woke up this morning to find that our beautiful Spring weather had taken leave of us. The mud had a