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

We had a late breakfast and no dinner again to-day. I fixed up another show card for Hall as he lost one of the others I did for him, and I finished up copying out the poem that Marj. composed to go with Josie's horse blanket at the Christmas tree. This after noon I drove down town and got my hair cut and did some last minute purchasing for Christmas and didn't get home till after dark. Great excitement prevails in the house to-night and three stockings are hanging on the back of the wicker chair all ready for Santa Claus. Harvey Shand was in this morning to ask me to help audit the books of the school house on Monday or Tuesday

Saturday December 25th

The first evidence of Christmas that I experienced this morning was when I got up first to et the fires going well was my missing oversock and discovering that Santa Claus had sniped it and stuffed a pair of slippers into it. Then Harry B who had been awake for. amlong time was allowed to come out and insopect santa's work. Then Gay and finally the baby, and by the time the stockings were all emptied the place was in a state of wild confusion, with harry B & Gay cruising around in a sea of apaper one with a waggon & the other with a doll buggy, and botht ickled to death. The waggon wasn't as big a one as H.B. wanted but when we suggested taking it back, he said "No. I'm not going to have. awaggon tooken away from me that I've just got." All this took place before daylight and when I could see I went out to so the chores, although I didn't milk till nearly noon as the cows were not going to be milked at al to-night. After breakfast marj. and Harry B. went over to Mrs. Lampkin with a few roses for her. I did up my chores and