buggy was all mud and looked terribly shabby with the top off but Marj. said she didn't mind so we had a nice drive as the roads are fine now except on the hills. I got home soon after five. Enah went down to church to-night as they wanted her to play for some fellow to sing a solo, he came down from Brantford with Meesa Dyer. Frank was off all the after noon on his wheel. We let the sheep all out in the lane for a little while to-night. Beautiful day.

Monday May 8th

We were all up fairly early tis morning and Rank got his team all harnessed to get out on the land right after breakfast biut about brwakfast time and old soaker of a thinderstorm rolled in and everlastingly soused things. It got so dark we had to light the lamp andthere were two or three claps of thunder that made our teeth rattle. The storm itself didn't last long but of curse we couldnt thnk of doing anything on the land although it has been sunny and a very high west wind which dried things up a lot. We chored around all day, carried the apples & vegetables all up out of the cellar out the rest of the sawdust back in the ic ehuse and paxcke dit in docked a couple of the calves hgorns and this mrning