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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1925-1926
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I spent most of the fore noon fixing things out in the cow stable to make it a little warmer now that the hay in front of them has got so low there is nothing to keep the draught from the north side of the barn from them so I cut the | I spent most of the fore noon fixing things out in the cow stable to make it a little warmer now that the hay in front of them has got so low there is nothing to keep the draught from the north side of the barn from them so I cut the | ||
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| + | hay through to the ground and built a temporary partition in front of them and covered the top with loos eboards and hay. It not only make it warmer but gives me a good wide feed alley. It took me s=till noon as we were late getting started so by the time I swpet out the shcool house after dinne rit was nearlythree when I got up to the Shand's to help audit the school nboks and it was six o'clock and oitch dark when Iwe finished. I got my fifty dollar cheque as ussual. I ha dhad fond hope sof being able to tell ChaHarvey Shand that I did not need the caretaker job after this tern amd ask him i to nhunt up a new janitor but as things ahve turned out I didn't and merely asked hom for. anew broom. I shouldn't wonder if I would be very gla dof the job for maybe years to come. Ina was here all day but left befoore I got home from which I was not sorry as it saved me hooking up. Not so cold. | ||
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dinner here and then caught all the Danish leghorn pullets and put them in one of the crates Frank brought over the other day from Martin's. When we stopped in home Dad. thought it was too late to go down after coke for him as we had intended so we took the chickens over to Martin and then went down to Bill Langs after some feed for me. We were a long time at both places as we had to take the chickens over to the barn and weigh them and then hunt Chris up to find out what to do with them. They weighed nearly two pounds apiece which was more than I expected after the treatment they have had the last few weeks By the time we had waited for Billy Lang to mix up chicken feed for Fred Kull and then mix some for me and bag up bran it was getting late and as we had to unhook at the farm and I had to hook up to the cutter and load my stuff in it, it was after dark when I got home. Marj. said the coke fire went out twice during the after noon so she is not jubilant.
Tuesday December 29th
I spent most of the fore noon fixing things out in the cow stable to make it a little warmer now that the hay in front of them has got so low there is nothing to keep the draught from the north side of the barn from them so I cut the
hay through to the ground and built a temporary partition in front of them and covered the top with loos eboards and hay. It not only make it warmer but gives me a good wide feed alley. It took me s=till noon as we were late getting started so by the time I swpet out the shcool house after dinne rit was nearlythree when I got up to the Shand's to help audit the school nboks and it was six o'clock and oitch dark when Iwe finished. I got my fifty dollar cheque as ussual. I ha dhad fond hope sof being able to tell ChaHarvey Shand that I did not need the caretaker job after this tern amd ask him i to nhunt up a new janitor but as things ahve turned out I didn't and merely asked hom for. anew broom. I shouldn't wonder if I would be very gla dof the job for maybe years to come. Ina was here all day but left befoore I got home from which I was not sorry as it saved me hooking up. Not so cold.
Wednesday December 30th
