Tuesday December 13th

Owing to procrastination, laziness & cold weather I will have to make a skip of a week but as there has been very little of any importance going on, I guess the future history of this 187 acres of the earth's surface won't suffer much. I have not been getting up so early this week so couldn't write before breakfast as I have been doing as it has been too miserable to do any thing but chores and nearly every day this last week we have just sat around for an hour or two after dinner and read. The weather has been rotten. Cloudy mostly and generally raw winds and terribly muddy. Dad. and I moved some rails over in the barn and covered them with straw and got in one small jag of corn stalks but the cornfield was so boggy we couldn't take a team on it for a real load. The snow that was on the ground early last week is all gone by now but to-day it is colder and there was a little flurry of snow last night. Jack McBride was in Saturday and bought the wether lambs for 9 cts a lb. and we took them down yesterday. They averaged about 84 lbs apiece & the nine of them