barn roof and make a couple of hog troughs. We wanted to get slabs but he couldn't let us have any. When we got home I went down to the mill and got some rolled oats for the sheep. This after noon Dad. and I put the doors on the harness cupboard but couldn't finish as we found we only had enough screws for three hinges instead of four. Frank put wire in his bee hive frames. About five o'clock Dad. went down to the mill and paid Charlie Ivey part of his account as Neil Elliott was in yesterday morning and gave him a check for Bobbie but said not to bring her down for two weeks. Enah and I printed pictures to-night

Wednesday August 29th

It rained most of the morning and I didn't do any thing much but read and try to trim a couple of the ram lambs Enah's friend Mr. Hall walked over in the pouring rain this morning and stayed to dinner. It cleared up about {obscured word} and Pickford came over to see if we would help him thrash this after noon as Sam couldn't do any thing with Al Boughner's alsike stack and said he would thresh Pickford out this after noon, however they didn't get moved down till about five o'clock so didn't thresh any to-day but Pickford was up to-night to see if two of us would go down in