disking it harrowed it and rolled it. I was very disappointed in its appearance to-night as the disks pulled a lot of sods out along the finishes and the harrows raked a lot more out all over the field and it looks very fuzzy. The wind has been in the north and getting colder all day. I nearly perished on the roller late this after noon although I had my overcoat & mitts on. It has been thundering and threatening rain off and on all day. It did rain a little before dinner and I put the team in and made a couple of frames to tack screen on for the porch. I intended going to town to-night with eggs but the fireside was too cheerful to leave.

Sunday May 24th

This has been a miserable day. It was so cold that I put on a coal fire and we have lived shut in the kitchen all day and were none too warm at that. There was a very cold wind all day and this morning it snowed a little and has been cloudy all day. I just did the chores and sat around and wrote in this or read all day Marj. did the same and the kids tore around among us. We ate at intervals all day whenever we felt hungry and washed up the dishes to-night. Marj is reading Martin Chuzzelwit and we took turns reading it at each other.