Thursday August 8th

We finished cutting and shocking up the back field of oats by noon and this after noon Frank cut the three acres of barley and oats along the side road I shocked up while Dad. cradled and bound {?} plots of wheat and about six o'clock Dad. & Grank came out and finished shocking up while I took the cows up. It has been hot to-day but a very strong breeze so that it wasn't so hard to sork. Just about dark a thunder storm came up and it rained hard for quite awhile. If it clears off soon it will do no harm and a lot of good as things were getting dry.

Friday August 9th

It was too wet for us to do much to-day but putter around. I took Alfred's cradle down to Newton Silver as he wanted to to cut his spring wheat on this garden. and on the way down I had quite a visit with Unce Ward to whom the signt of the cradle recalled memories of early days and he told me about Geourge Adams the best man he ever saw swing a cradle and who cut a six acred filed of wheat for Uncle Ward's brother one time between