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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1925
Theobald Toby Barrett 1925 Diary 89.pdf
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| − | I spent the day over home again. Dad. & Frank cut the barley yesterday so Frank and I shocked it up this morning while Dad. shook out the hay along the side road which he said was pretty badly soaked and blackened. This after noon he hauled the binder back across the gully for Frank to cut the wheat back there and Frank & Tim got started cutting. By the time they got the binder loaded and back there and up to the house again it was four o'clock so Dad. & I just got two loads of wheat off the front field and the last one we didn't haul in the barn. We had Dick McPherson helping in the mow. He was | + | I spent the day over home again. Dad. & Frank cut the barley yesterday so Frank and I shocked it up this morning while Dad. shook out the hay along the side road which he said was pretty badly soaked and blackened. This after noon he hauled the binder back across the gully for Frank to cut the wheat back there and Frank & Tim got started cutting. By the time they got the binder loaded and back there and up to the house again it was four o'clock so Dad. & I just got two loads of wheat off the front field and the last one we didn't haul in the barn. We had Dick McPherson helping in the mow. He was game although the sheaves weighed about as much as he did and he had to go through some awful contortions to move them.This was my 30th birthday and I am therefore richer by the possession of eleven dollars in cash, a pair of garters a film and a little gold horseshoe tie-pin with pearls in it which used to be Clarence's and which Aunty gave me, besides all kinds of good wishes and ice cream for dinner at noon and another dinner with some of Aunty Alice's new potatoes to-night. Fine, warm & nice breeze. |
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| + | Saturday July 25th | ||
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| + | Dad. & I hauled wheat all day but didnt quite clear the field. We got in seven good big loads and unloaded the one we put on last night. There are still about two loads out. It was certainly a fine stand of wheat, nothing in the bottom whatever, although the little alfalfa plants seem to be alive all over the field. Frank & Tim cut the back field. They hadn't quite finished when I left for home to-night but I suppose they did. Frank went over to Pickford's at noon and got him & Bob. to come over and cock up the hay along the side road that Dad. turned out. They were at it all the afternoon and finished it. Vernon & Aunty came over to the farm this morning to announce the arrival at 3 a.m. of Win's baby a nine pound boy. Vernon and Aunty and Rebecca came over here to-night to tell us that they would come out to-morrow if it was fine and take us all in to have Dorothy Mary christened. Cloudy and a little rain at noon, very threatening to-night. | ||
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| + | Sunday July 26th | ||
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| + | We started to get ready about six o'clock this morning | ||
Revision as of Aug 13, 2026, 3:07:59 PM
Friday July 24th
I spent the day over home again. Dad. & Frank cut the barley yesterday so Frank and I shocked it up this morning while Dad. shook out the hay along the side road which he said was pretty badly soaked and blackened. This after noon he hauled the binder back across the gully for Frank to cut the wheat back there and Frank & Tim got started cutting. By the time they got the binder loaded and back there and up to the house again it was four o'clock so Dad. & I just got two loads of wheat off the front field and the last one we didn't haul in the barn. We had Dick McPherson helping in the mow. He was game although the sheaves weighed about as much as he did and he had to go through some awful contortions to move them.This was my 30th birthday and I am therefore richer by the possession of eleven dollars in cash, a pair of garters a film and a little gold horseshoe tie-pin with pearls in it which used to be Clarence's and which Aunty gave me, besides all kinds of good wishes and ice cream for dinner at noon and another dinner with some of Aunty Alice's new potatoes to-night. Fine, warm & nice breeze.
Saturday July 25th
Dad. & I hauled wheat all day but didnt quite clear the field. We got in seven good big loads and unloaded the one we put on last night. There are still about two loads out. It was certainly a fine stand of wheat, nothing in the bottom whatever, although the little alfalfa plants seem to be alive all over the field. Frank & Tim cut the back field. They hadn't quite finished when I left for home to-night but I suppose they did. Frank went over to Pickford's at noon and got him & Bob. to come over and cock up the hay along the side road that Dad. turned out. They were at it all the afternoon and finished it. Vernon & Aunty came over to the farm this morning to announce the arrival at 3 a.m. of Win's baby a nine pound boy. Vernon and Aunty and Rebecca came over here to-night to tell us that they would come out to-morrow if it was fine and take us all in to have Dorothy Mary christened. Cloudy and a little rain at noon, very threatening to-night.
Sunday July 26th
We started to get ready about six o'clock this morning
