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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1918
Theobald Toby Barrett 1918 Diary 70.pdf
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| − | I intended going on with the fence but Ham Thompson came after me to help him put on the third spray so I have been up there all day not getting home till nearly eight o'clock. I was up this morning at five and Aunty Alice insisted on getting up and giving me my breakfast before I came home. Frank pulled all the steeples and let the fence down to the ground around the pasture in front of the house and threw some in the low places so that the sheep | + | I intended going on with the fence but Ham Thompson came after me to help him put on the third spray so I have been up there all day not getting home till nearly eight o'clock. I was up this morning at five and Aunty Alice insisted on getting up and giving me my breakfast before I came home. Frank pulled all the steeples and let the fence down to the ground around the pasture in front of the house and threw some in the low places so that the sheep couldn't crawl under neath. No wind to-day warm and rainy looking. |
Friday May 31<u>st</u> | Friday May 31<u>st</u> | ||
| − | Frank and I went up to Ham's first thing this morning with Joe & Queen and got the spray out fit. We stopped in on the way home at the mill and got some feed for the calves and chickens and I paid $60.<u>00</u> on my account as Karl came yester day and got my steer and gave Frank the money for him. When we got home we sewed up the wool sack as I got a letter from Neff saying they were going to start a car loading here on Monday to go to Guelph. He wants one of us to be at the car till it goes out. Dad. plowed till noon and then helped us spray. | + | Frank and I went up to Ham's first thing this morning with Joe & Queen and got the spray out fit. We stopped in on the way home at the mill and got some feed for the calves and chickens and I paid $60.<u>00</u> on my account as Karl came yester day and got my steer and gave Frank the money for him. When we got home we sewed up the wool sack as I got a letter from Neff saying they were going to start a car loading here on Monday to go to Guelph. He wants one of us to be at the car till it goes out. Dad. plowed till noon and then helped us spray. We got over all the trees but couldn't do the north east side very well on account of the wind. We only put on tank of spray on It didn't seem to have the force to it that it should. We got through about half past four and Dad. went on out to plow and Frank and I took the sprayer back. After tea to-night Dad. & Enah went out to work in the garden and Frank and I let the sheep out in the lane and put up barricades so that they couldn't go on the lawn, I washed off the buggy. A good many people are very anxious these days over the war news as the Germans have started another desperate drive towards Paris on a front between Soisons & Rheims The French are holding the out skirts of both cities but the Germans have. got nearly to the Marne in the centre. but Allied reserves are coming in fast. They finished drilling to-night and struck a dry hole. |
Saturday June 1<u>st</u> | Saturday June 1<u>st</u> | ||
I spent most of the day to-day hoeing in the garden. The potatoes are all up nicely now so I got them and the strawberries and tomatoes all hoed. Dad. plowed all morning and after dinner went over to the | I spent most of the day to-day hoeing in the garden. The potatoes are all up nicely now so I got them and the strawberries and tomatoes all hoed. Dad. plowed all morning and after dinner went over to the | ||
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I intended going on with the fence but Ham Thompson came after me to help him put on the third spray so I have been up there all day not getting home till nearly eight o'clock. I was up this morning at five and Aunty Alice insisted on getting up and giving me my breakfast before I came home. Frank pulled all the steeples and let the fence down to the ground around the pasture in front of the house and threw some in the low places so that the sheep couldn't crawl under neath. No wind to-day warm and rainy looking.
Friday May 31st
Frank and I went up to Ham's first thing this morning with Joe & Queen and got the spray out fit. We stopped in on the way home at the mill and got some feed for the calves and chickens and I paid $60.00 on my account as Karl came yester day and got my steer and gave Frank the money for him. When we got home we sewed up the wool sack as I got a letter from Neff saying they were going to start a car loading here on Monday to go to Guelph. He wants one of us to be at the car till it goes out. Dad. plowed till noon and then helped us spray. We got over all the trees but couldn't do the north east side very well on account of the wind. We only put on tank of spray on It didn't seem to have the force to it that it should. We got through about half past four and Dad. went on out to plow and Frank and I took the sprayer back. After tea to-night Dad. & Enah went out to work in the garden and Frank and I let the sheep out in the lane and put up barricades so that they couldn't go on the lawn, I washed off the buggy. A good many people are very anxious these days over the war news as the Germans have started another desperate drive towards Paris on a front between Soisons & Rheims The French are holding the out skirts of both cities but the Germans have. got nearly to the Marne in the centre. but Allied reserves are coming in fast. They finished drilling to-night and struck a dry hole.
Saturday June 1st
I spent most of the day to-day hoeing in the garden. The potatoes are all up nicely now so I got them and the strawberries and tomatoes all hoed. Dad. plowed all morning and after dinner went over to the
