Wednesday August 31st

It was pouring rain when I first got up this morning but cleared off and has been very hot and sultry all day. I haven't done a thing but chores all day. Dad. got a pretty good day in ploughing but the flies nearly drove the horses crazy. This after noon Marj. & I drove down town and brought Aunty Alice back with us to stay all night. I went down to band concert to-night. I got the cows up early and went down early and practiced "The Holy City" before the concert. Hal. Steele played it for cornet solo

Thursday August September 1st

This has been another very hot sultry day and has looked very rainy and thundery but did not rain. Dad. and I got all the ewes over in the colony yard this morning and milked out the ones that needed it. Art. Quanbury came in to invite us out to Charlie's to thrash this after noon. Dad. ploughed all day and I took Aunty Alice down this morning. I stayed there till noon and cut the lawn and dug some potatoes for her. This after noon I started for Charlies to thrash, but stopped at John Wesse for quite awhile as the machine wasn't at Charlie's yet. Cam. came up from the field to get a wire to poke out {the axle?} holes in his sulky plow, and invited me into the house where he treated me to a big piece of watermelon, and told me about the trials and triumphs of the Lemmon's orchestra. Mrs. Welsh has been doing her best to knock it because they wouldn't let Glen play his clarinet that he wouldnt practice on. It is going out now though to various engagements and charging so is doing fine. I got over to Charlies about the time the machine got there and we thrashed for about two hours. Charlies crop aggregated the magnificent total of 95 bushels 18 of which was good wheat the rest very poor oats & barley mixed. I drove down to-night and got Marj. who had been at Miss McQueens for tea and had gone afterwards to the Sunday school teacher's class which Mr. Cornish took and which she said she enjoyed very much as Mr. Cornish was so good.