Tuesday August 17th

This morning Dad. Frank & I all dug a little more at the tile ditch out in the old timothy sod and this afternoon got started to cut the barley, but only got a few rounds cut as it was in awful shape, all tangled up and in some spots as Colin Ryersie says, the big wheel "drug." I sent a long time to-night catching young chickens which came back from the colony house to roost around the brooder, there are a couple of dozen which pewrsist in coming back to the yard everyday and then don't go back. I had quite a time catching them as I had shut them out of the brooder and thus were roosting on a sheep's back and when I went out the sheep got frightened and ran away up the orchard woth the chickens. It hasn't rained all day and looks like fair weather for awhile.

Wednesday August 18th