up first thing as it would be nasty handling if it got covered up with snow. We did that and I helped them and used Doc & Queen. We got all there was piled up before dinner and I stayed there and had dinner but came home right after to feed the chickens. It began to storm about noon and was very blustery and blizzardy while I was going down after the coal but it was not cold, and by the time I came home it was almost raining. I stopped in at Aunty's & said good-bye to Walter who is leaving to-night for Toronto. Roy & Vernon are going down too but expect to be back next week. I also called in at the farm on my way home and got a bag of potatoes. I couldn't get chestnut coal but got a load of stove. It was four o'clock when I got home here and by the time I got the load off and back to Dave's with the waggon and hauled up a chunk of elm which they had split up this afternoon and back home it was dark. I was tired to-night.

Saturday January 29th

I spent most of the day working at the nests in the new chicken pen but didn't get finished. I made all the partitions separately and have them ready to tack into place. The gang was back at work on the school wood shed and got the roof nearly on and the west end boarded in. Harry Evans was over here this morning to get the school-house key which Mabel had left with me so that I could build a fire for sunday school to-morrow and he wanted me to go over and help but Marj. told him I had to work at the chicken pen. She told me the same, so there was no help for it. She is afraid the hens are eating their eggs because they haven't enough nests. Very mild, rain to-night.

Sunday January 30th

Wes tayed in bed much longer than usual even for Sunday morning in spite of it being a beautifully mild sunny morning with a strong south-west wind. It was nearly eleven when w ehad breakfast. I had to go over and lught the fire at the school-house for Sunday school and while in that direction I soent a little time trying to dam the dirch through the little flats back of the school house as I there was a lot of water going through there ti-day and it would make a grand pond to skate on if it was flooded. I didn't have time to finish the job as I had to stay witht he kids and let Marj. go to Sunday school. She waa gone all the afternoon