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 this morning and Frank got his team all harnessed to get out on the land right after breakfast but about breakfast time and old soaker of a thunderstorm rolled in and everlastingly soused things. It got so dark we had to light the lamp and there were two or three claps of thunder that made our teeth rattle. The storm itself didn't last long but of course we couldnt think 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 put the rest of the sawdust back in the ice house and packed it in docked a couple of the calves horns and this morning. Dad. and Frank took up a board in the wood shed floor to see if they could discover reh source of a very disagreeable odour which has been pervading that part of the hous elately. They found it all right, it turne dout to be the cat who died last fall. I got the old lawnmower going to-night so that it makes quite a respectable looking job by setting the blade upo against the knoves

Tuesday May 9th