Monday November 13th

When the house was aroused this morning all were surprised to find any water left in the kitchen was frozen. The water in the bird cage was frozen, and the lillie in the hall was toughed. Although this was the state of things in the house, the water in the horse stable was not frozen. It was very cold outside and was made more intense by as strong wind. I started to saw wood and Daddy and Enah began to get the stoves ready to move. I broke the frame of my saw which was not much account anyway, so I went down to Huby's to get his saw and also to get him to come and help us move the stove. We spent the rest of the morning getting the stove up. We moved the big stove into the inside kitchen and the little stove in the hall. We did not do any thing much but chores and I cut wood. It has been exceedingly cold all day. And it hopes feels as if it would be a cold night.

Tuesday November 14th

It was a great deal milder to-day than yesterday. Old Bill turned up about seven o'clock as he had stayed down at Huby's all night. We started to work first thing on the winter pen for the chickens {illegible} the on the big barn. We covered the top with the old hay that Titus had left in the other end of the shed which we intend using for a calf and sheep pen. We were nearly all mormning at this and we did the dame to the calf pen with the remainder of the hay. This after noon we fixed up a coop for the chickens to roost in one corne rof the shed with a couple of big doors of the horse stable before it was fixed up. Dad went down town about fib=ve o'clock after tar paper and poultry netting to enclose the shed. He met the boys on their way home from school and Dick went back with him and helped him bring home his purchases/ I did chores and Bill helped me milk. It began to snow quite hard to-night and Bill thought he wouldbe able to follow the track of a