May 4th 1893

Thur. 4. Raining very hard this morning having rained all night and all day long the fields are all flooded and seating is indeed impossible for some time yet old man say they have never seen the like during their life time slept in the factory for the first this season last night and commenced boarding at Mrs Cowan's today Miss Sarah Grace her niece is stopping with her for a while and she and Mrs Cowan gave me blankets to prepare my nest with

Fri. 5. Dreary and dull raining by spells mud in abundance

Sat. 6. Cloudy and squally most of the day clearing of partly at Sunset but rain from appearances will be on us again

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May 7th 1893

Sun. 7. Most beautiful very mild and pleasant vegetation rapidly developing

Mon. 8. Very fine and warm and spring like

Tue. 9. Farmers looking Pleasant so this is the only whether this season that has been fit for seeding side note find a warm

Wed. 10. Another lovely day and a little warmer than usual

Thur.11. Lovely today thermometer 80 x90 very warm tonight

Fri. 12. Very warm today warm than yesterday last night I took Mrs Cowan's {illegible} apart and cleaned it and put it together again and tonight I put down her carpet for her

Sat. 13. Mild but cloudy having the appearance of rain clearing off but cloudy up again and started to rain at noon and continued all the afternoon cloudy tonight