eggs over to Jack Martin's and asked Chris what was wrong with the incubator that I couldn't get it heating up and what made the flame go down Chris couldn't think of any thing but poor ventilation or poor oil and suggested that I clean the lamp out well and put fresh oil in, this I did when I got home and boiled the burner and put in fresh wick. This after noon Dad and Frank built a pen over in the barn for the ewes to lamb in and I put the saddle on Ginger and went down and got the mail, she went fine too. To-night Lloyd Ryerse brought over a note for me from Miss Walker inviting me down there to spend the evening so I went down early and went to church and then called for Essie & Marj. Nellie Smith went up with us, we had a very pleasant evening playing Pit and indulging in other forms of Methodist sport. Will {Currie?} was the only other one there and the three Walker girls. I stayd down at Aunty's to-night and it was about one o'clock when I got in. It had cleared off to night and was moonlight but very frosty.

Thursday March 23rd

Dick came down to Aunty's for breakfast this morning and she gave him his lunch. Hazen left on Tuesday for Ottawa where Nicholson is and so Dick has to sleep at the bank now. I came home right after breakfast but Dad. had gone with Art Quanbury. Frank and I went up after another load of wood, we are going to pile it home now and then measure it so as we can pile the box up with as much as it will hold and wont have to figure on each individual load. We got home in time to do most of the chores before dinner and got an early start after dinner, however we hauled all that was up there in one big load, there was a pile of apple wood freshly cut at one end, but we left it and and just took the two year old beech, it took us longer to get this load on as the bottom layer was frozen in and had to be knocked out with an axe, we didn't unload the load when we got home but piled a lot of what we had hauled. Enah and the baby went down town before we got back and were down all the after noon. Dad. got home about six and said they had got through or at least he had, he told Art. that we couldnt put a team on to help draw the building as we didn't have one that could draw, but he can get lots. Raw wind but sunny