Thursday December 23rd

This has been a beautiful day in spite of a light east breeze but sunny and quite mild. I didnt get very much done to-day but chores and a few odd jobs. I started to cut up my pig and got him about half cut up but thought I would go over and have another look at Dad's methods before I finished. I worked a little more at the chicken pen and got the roof finished and the west end all boarded up. I got Marj. out to help me raise the front of the colony house so as to have it plumb with the east end of the chicken pen. Marj. hasn't felt very well to-day but has been busy decorating the house with pine and hemlock boughs and has it looking very coniferously Christmassy.

Friday December 24th