Monday September 7th Labour Day

This being Labour Day I laboured at at a job that I have wanted to get at for a year, and now that I have started I will want to keep at it till I finish. I levelled down the pile of clay west of the kitchen and filled in the low places around the back door with it and I made an ash path from the kitchen door to the pump and got started on one to gate but haven't got the sod all cut out for it yet. There are still large heaps of clay south of the house and under the crab apple tree to be disposed of and I am anxious to get them levelled and seeded with lawn seed as at present the place looks like a mining shack or a shell crater but if it were trimmed up it would be an exceptionally pretty place, even now the vista that we see from the back door spreading out under the crab apple tree and the ash and disappearing gradually in the orchard is beautiful enough to make a fellow wish that Pegassus was not so particular who rode him. Mabel Mrs. Walker and Miss Cook all came up to-night and Mabel is staying all night. Marj. invited her when she thought she was going to be alone on account of my being with the Colonial excursion to Erie. Mostly cloudy & cooler.