4 dinner. he cleaned out the north pigpen all that was not frozen 5 Teu 11. raining most of the day. roads quite muddy I went down to sweep Olly Dell over to get some one to help Marjorie went with him. Paul caught 6 fish. Will butchering 3 pigs they weighed 308 & old 5 to farmer Mr Creskie he & Fannie went down with them after dinner got 25 [[[pd?]] worth of bran Fannie came over at night and stayed She heard Frank Miller was worse. I set the black hen on 15 eggs Wed 12 beautiful day but had frost at night. Paul went to Chippawa had 2 1/2 doz eggs @ 15 Maggie Heximer called on her way from school house. Mary Riexinger called for her mail Fannie went to Marshalls for a visit. Will went to Russ Hartlys raising. I baked bread had it baked at 1 Oclock. I wrote to Mrs Kent. Thurs 13. I mended Pauls pants the first thing in the morning so he could go to James Dells & see how Mrs Smith was & see about hay The cattle are out starving in the field nothing but marsh grass or rushes. heavy frosts stunts the grass. However Mr. James Dell was kind enough to give us a load of hat Bill Montague draw it for us after Paul went away I went to work & got out everything out of the woodhouse & cleared it up such nice sunshine & strong wind it did the things good when Paul came home he helped to get barrels out of the Bed in the woodhouse so I could turn around Everything crowded together. Fannie & her mother over 14 swept the front room Friday 14 snowing & thawing as fast as it comes down. comeing from the north east & disagreable if the cattle had no feed such a day it would be hard on them. I washed out some things but a bad day. I had to put a line in the varanda. Paul went to Montague after apples. Sat 15 Terrible cold. I scrubbed the back kitchen after I swept it good & scrubbed the stoops. Swept, dusted & cleaned the kitchen blacked the stove made two pies & ginger cookies Marjorie came home from James Dells Sun 16 quite a lot of snow and north west wind. Maggie Heximer to dinner. Clara & Fannie called Mrs. Riexinger & Mary called. Fannie stayed all night came over early Marjorie went back to Mr Dells with Stanly about 4 Oclock snowed something terrible at night just like a winters night - cold & stormy & last night was fearful cold Mon 17 real blustery snow for all its worst at times then sun strike out Paul went up to Georges after sack of potatoes. I pealed a kettle of apples after dinner he went to James Dells after a selling of eggs. Fannie & her mother went to Chippawa for 5 doz eggs for flour on right hand side of pageWill went away with his Sow & took her to McCredies.