Thursday April 2nd

It was drizzling this morning so we didn't try to do any road work and I spent the fore noon cutting and laying a strip of linoleum in the kitchen to fill in the little space where it was cut too short I didn't get the glue to stick very well where I put the old window blinds under the seam. I also painted a wash stand that Marj. wanted done. It has been out in the shed since last year and had chicken mites in it. I thought they would be all starved or frozen by now but when I put the chinamel on they swarmed out of the cracks so I set the thing outdoors. Tom. came this after noon and we went down to the hill. We first ploughed out a furrow from the top of the big hill along Dad's place & Martin's to the corner and came back on the other side Frank came along when we got to the corner and we put him to work throwing out the furrow so that we can plough another one back. We then started to plough a ditch on the east side of the hill but Tom. broke the end off his coulter in some unknown way so we couldn't use it. Evan's had just fixed it up for him. He went down town to see if he could get a new one but couldn't so we took it back to Evan's on our way home. We tried the scraper till it was time to quit but couldn't do much with it. We need another furrow ploughed and the clay is so stiff and mucky. I went over to the school house to sweep before I came in home and just as I got started a car got stuck solid at the corner of my place and the school yard. I went out and they asked me if I had a team but I told them I didn't think I could pull them out and sent them up to Shand's, so Charlie came back with his team and extricated them. It was nearly dark when I got home and as I did chores up first was very late when we "eventually " had tea. Beautiful day.

Friday April 3rd

Tom. & I put the forenoon in on the rioad.