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Dad. and Frank did while we were gone but yesterday they tacked up the wire along the edge of the bush enough to keep the cattle out of Robert John's till Sid. McBride can stretch it and turned the cattle in there. To-day Frank took the team and went over all the summer fallow with the disks and Dad. cut weeds and tidied up. Jean & Adelena are over here to-night.

Saturday August 9th

It rained cats and dog's last night and things are so flooded we can do nothing outdoors. I didn't hear any thingh all night but they said the thunder was terrific. I drove Dick down this morning and didn't do much else all morning as it kept raining a little. It cleared off at noon - and I drove Jean & Adelena down town as Jean's grand mother wanted to see her about something we got some groceries and came home I wrote a letter to Mr. Hanmer telling him that Dad. was willing for me to get his fifty dollar ram, it seems a lot to pay but if we never get any good headers for our flock we will never have any good stock. Frank and I went down to the mill for a bathe after tea and had a good one as there is a big head of water coming over. it began to thunder & lightening & rain heavily again before we went to bed. Dick did not come home at all to-night.

Sunday August 10th

It rained harder than ever last night and the cannonade of thunder was terrific with a steady blaze of lighteneing. It didn't bother me any, I don't think I would have wakened at all but Frank was afraid the barns would be struck and got up over me to investigat Aunty also got up to look around. but Dick slept through it.

It was too hot and wet for any of us to go to chirch or Sunday school se we didn't do any thing much alld ay. I drewa little and Dad went down and drove Dick home to dinner, but he went down again this afternoon as Wiggins wanted him. to help him hang pictures in his room. It began to rain again about five to-night so I put on mu=y bathing suit to go after the cows as Dad. couldn't have got them this morning if it had not been for Tige as the stream was so swollen as to be impassable. He found that they had been in John Wess peas the other night so shut them out of the woods. We heard that Joe Long had a horse killed the night before last with the lightening