see Dad this morning about a sick cow and Norman Holden came to get a dose for George's horse. To-night Charlie Butler tracked him over to Quanbury's to see about a sick cow, there is an awful lot of trouble among the cattle this year for some reason or other. This after noon Frank and I took Martin's sleighs back and got our own with Quanbury's rack on it as we had intended going to Port Rowan to-morrow but to-night it is the worst blizzard of the season, and a lot of snow fallen, so the drifts will be too bad to go through to-morrow and get back the same day as we want to. Dick walked home to-night and so did Dad. Dick said the drifts were as high as his waist down by Chris Quanbury's. Cold wind but sunny all day.

Friday March 11th

It was very evident this morning that we could not go to Port Rowan to-day so Frank went to school, he was going to stay home and do chores if we went. I spent most of the morning shovelling out paths through the drifts and cleaning out the stable. Dad. walked down town after he got the morning chores done and stayed at Aunty's for dinner, he shovelled