Saturday November 21st I spent a good part of the morning doing chores and went out to throw some more furrows out of the ditches in the corn stubble but saw {across?} Art Gandy who was cleaning out a ditch on the road and he talked so long that I didn't get much done before dinner. After dinner I {rocked?} the Willets for an hour in a vain effort to put him to sleep and then went out and made some strike outs in the corn stubble. It was a most discouraging job as the ground was so soft that it offered no resistance and I had to stop every few feet to take grass out of the coulter's share. In the wettest places, the horses had to just flounder through and with Queen on quick & Bess on slow and lame it was an impossibility for me to set up pretty crowns even if I were able to do it under favourable conditions, however I got nearly halfway across the feild and I am hoping the {illegible} some of the surplus water get away. Beautiful day clouds mild, strong wind. Sunday November 22nd We were late getting around this morning and didn't do much but {illiable} & chores. I lay around and waited for a awhile and went over and opened up the school house. It was a very gloomy sort of day with a cold