Saturday January 2nd

Got uplate and spent most of the day doing chores and odd jobs, one of ehich was to kill a cockrelt o take to Auntys for her birthday to-morrow. Let he cows into te corn again but as it as stormy they didn't stay long. dad. & Tim walke dover ts after noon and Dad brought woth him blank application forms for masonic membership. Quont 7 Dick ha deach fille din one and I signed another. I walked ove to the Lampkins just before tea to see if Dave wanted Queen in the morning to go to the mill. When I went out to the barn this morning, I found he rout and all the feed spilled around the barn floor, I dodn't know how much she had eaten so i put her back in her stall and didn;t feed her or water her till to-nigjt. Milder again, quite blustery all day. Snowung ton0ght.

Monday January 3rd