Wednesday May 3rd

It started to rain sometime during the night and has kept it up all morning most of the time quite heavily so that underfoot conditions are in about as bad a state as they werewere. It cleared up after dinner but was cold all the after noon but was a very nice night. This morning I spent most of the morning in the house grinding bread crmbs for the chickens and writing in this. Dad. helped me get the little chuckens into the colony housethis morning as we were afraid the wet would be bad for them. Two of them did die with the sore eye trouble that thery had last year. This after noon Frank and I did chores and husked a little corn. Frank spent all the. morning packing his muskrat skins and after dinner he took them down and shipped them to Hallam and fgo the mail. Dad. sheared one sheep this mmorng and two more this after noon, he has just one more to shearI went down town to-night. Tom Abbot and other soothsayers and astronomers were predicting cold weather as the new moonwas exceptional, fasr North and slap on its back