Monday May 26th

I spent most of the day cleaning up around the place. I cut the lawn this morning and this after noon cleaned up the shingles around under Dick's window. Dad. and Frank did chores & odd jobs. Frank took a grist to the mill and they hauled a jag of hay over to the horse stable. Enah went over to Mrs. Battersbys to after noon tea and came home with the information that Quint's name was amongst those of the troops just landed at Halifax so that naturally created considerable excitement as she said Aunty & Aunty Alice were quite sure he would be here to-night. We all went down to-night. I had to go to band practice but went down to the eight o'clock car but Quint didn't show up. I saw Win. and Lila and they were very surprised that we should be looking for him. Aunty was to have gone to London to-day but put it off till to-morrow in hope that Quint. would be home to-night. They had letters from Dick to-night and he hoped to sail on the "Empress of Russia" which is due at Vancouver in a day or two. This was a holiday in town to-day and they had great sports at the school house. Today's paper says Hawker & Grieve were picked up alive in mid ocean and are both alright.

Tuesday May 27th

Dad went back this morning and got the disks and has put in most of the day racking up the old garden. It is wet but so Sunday that it doesn't matter. I spent the day taking this sort of a strip off the lawn where I want to plant my perennial border and resodding the square undertakes window. Frank has been doing odd jobs he cheated some potatoes with formula in and dug up a lot of solstice still in the middle east of the orchard. He says there is quite a patch of it over by the sheep past year since. There were three or four little plants or fit the year last year but we thought we got every par particle of it out evidently it has folders. Frank went down to the dance tonight and I went down to see if old Quint came but he didn't. It has been a beautiful day and looks cleared up.