We all lay around all the after noon out on the lawn and let out tongues {lap?} out as it was terribly hot in spite of the fact that there was a good breeze. About five o'clock Aunty, Walter, Elsie and Dick started to walk down town as they wanted to stop in at Mrs. Battersby's and Mrs. Woodson's on their way. We had tea as soon as they left and did chores. Enah put the baby to sleep and she and Dad drove down to church, Frank and I stayed home & slept.

Monday July 30th

Frank mowed in the corner field all morning and for an hour or two after dinner but his knives got so dull he had to stop so he went down town and got a carborundum stone as well as some other things and came back and sharpened up his knives and raked up all that was fit He went out after tea as it was moon light and finished cutting. Dad. cultivated his potatoes in the old garden and put parisgreen on them. He had to go back after dinner to finish the job. I cut lawn most of the morning. It was an awful job as it has got too long and it was suffocatingly hot I nearly got bushed two or three times, however I got all over it but in some places it looks more as if it had been chewed off by a horse with only two teeth than as if it