Sunday May 16th

Marj. wanted me to go to church this morning but as the cows have got through the barbed wire that I put up in the gully the last two days, I had to go down and take it down so that they could get in the lower end of the gully with out going over or through barbed wire and cutting themselves, and so couldn't go to church but as it turned out such a beautiful warm day Marj. decided she & Harry B would go so I got Queen ready and off they went after I had cut Harry B's back hair. While they were gone I cut some of the lawn, shaved and fed the baby and was just about to light the fire for dinner when Marj. H.B. & Glad Law came back Marj. had cooked up lots of provisions yesterday so was keen for company to help eat it and Aunty & Aunty Alice couldn't come as they are having Dad. & Enah down there to dinner celebrating their 20th wedding aniversary so Marj. went up after church and got Glad. to come. Just after dinner Mid Thompson and Essie B. drove out in Minnie's car and after a little visit and looking at the chickens Essie proposed going for a drive so we all piled into the car and Mid drove us up this road to the Provincial Highway along it to the Blue Line down it to the fourth con. and down it to Shand's corners and home. I then came up to the house with Gay and the baby while the rest of the party went across the road for awhile to pick trilliums in the woods, and then Glad. went home with Mid. & Essie. Beautiful day, sunny & warm but very dry. The woods are now at their most beautiful stage with their hazy tints of greens, browns and reds.

Monday May 17th

We spent quite a time this morning blocking up the bottom of the colony house so that the chickens couldn't get under it and then we opened one side of their yard so they could have free range. They have been out all day but didn't go far away and it was so warm that they took no hurt. We had no trouble getting them in to-night as they couldn't run under the house. I harrowed the pea field before dinner but didn't have time to run the ditches and I spent the after noon string up a fence along the woods west & south of the orchard to keep the cows back in the gully. I had to get Marj. to help me tack it to the trees. Dovey was not with the other cows to-night and after quite a search I found her