Wednesday August 12th

We all went down town this morning for Marj. to get her week's groceries. She thought Ina was coming and intended leaving Gay & the baby here with her but as she didn't show up we had to take the whole family with us. This after noon I cut the grass around the front of the house with the scythe and did the chores up early so as to get down to the carnival in good time but about four o'clock it began to drizzle and kept up with increasing force till far into the night so that all thought of carnival had to be abandoned. They made great preparations for it. Harry Moon and his gang were working tooth & nail this morning when we were down putting up a decorated stage and various booths and festoons but the rain was expected as there was an east wind all day.

Thursday August 13th

I was just getting ready to drive oveer home this morning to see what they were going to do when Frank cam eoveer to get me to thrash at Pickford's in Dad's place as he ahd to go down and have a tooth out, he said the machine had not moved up from Sam's