Tuesday June 24th

Dad. and I cultivated the old garden and the mangels out in the field this morning with old Harry. I went sound asleep after dinner and dozed off considerable time, all efforts to wake me proving futile so they say. I had some cider before dinner I don't know whether that was the cause of it or not, after I did wake up I helped George a little who has put in the day making a bigger doorway in the end of the horse stable loft to let the hay in. Marion and I then went out and picked some strawberries. Marj. came over to tea and spent the evening but I had to go to Woodhouse with the band as there was another strawberry social on up there. We had a good feed and I got home about half past eleven just as George and Maron were getting home with Mexico after having driven Marj. home. Harry Ansley died yesterday.

Wednesday June 25th

Dad. went down and got his hair cut this morning and this afternoon he and Enah went down to Harry Ansley's funeral. Frank and George put the shafts on the cart this morning and I spent most of the fore noon correcting the application that I had returned for the sheep registration's. It poured rain all the after noon so we didn't do any thing out-side Marion & I read all sorts of things this after noon, Irish History, Pope, Burns and the dictionary. George and Frank and Tid. played & read. Dad. saw in the paper to-day that the Siberian troops had reached Toronto so was quite sure of Dick being home to-night and drove down to meet him but he didn't come. I drove down with him as it was too wet for the band to go to Jack McBride's where we were booked to play for the Presbyterian strawberry social. I spent the evening over at the Monteith's and stayed all night at Aunty's.

Thursday June 26th

It has rained pretty much all day, although there have been fine and sunny spaces between the showers. Dad and I went out to sit out some cabbage and tomato plants this morning but a big shower drove us in before we got much done. Marion came out to tell us that auntie and auntie Alice were over here. They stayed to dinner. Days had been down with the letter she received from dick saying that he was in Toronto but would be unable