Friday August 3rd

Dad. and I hauled in all day but only got in five loads there is still half a load in the field. We didn't get out till rather late this morning as we had to bolt a piece on to the front ladder of the rack which is cracked. Frank cut till about four o'clock and then raked up what he cut this morning. He is cutting in the 8 acre feild between Ivey's line and the lane and just south of the gully. Quite cool all day nice to work

Saturday August 4th

Things have gone rather slowly to-day. We started put off the load that was on the barn ffloor this morning but the third lift one of the strands in the big ripe cut right out and we had to quit. It is cutting on the spring in the car. Tom Cawley cam eover to borrow the binder as jack's isn't working right and it was getting retty late in the morning when he left. Dad. and I then went out and cocke dup most of what FRabk raked last night. After dinner we went out and Dad. got Art Quanbury to come over ad see if he could fix our cae =r for us so that it wouldn't cut and Art cut the end off the spring, we didn't want to put it up in the barn again so we want the next lot of hay to go in the ghorse stable/. We pitched the last lift that wa son the waggon off by hand and Frank and I went