Monday May 1st

Frank took a walk over the back foield yesterday after noon and reported that the side hill was fit to go on but the top was pretty wet, so this morning he took Harry & Nellie with the disks back and has been working back all day. Dad. went back with him to get him started, he got the side hill all gone over and of coirse couldn't turn on it so had to go across the top but threw the disks out, however it scratched it up a little and weill help it to dry. It will take a lot of work yet as the rain has packe dit so hard and the grass is rather pretty well started. While Dad. was back there I buried the twins in the garden up by the windmill. Tom Abbot saw them this morning and said he would give five dollars if they had lived. Sam Law came in while I was at it with some of Dad's instuments he had left down there and said old Ned. was just about all right agian. When Dad. came up he sheared a sheep before dinner and two after dinner, he thinks he os getting on to it now. The last one he did I thought he did in a little less than an hour. This after noon I cut most of the lawn I didn't make much of a job of it with the old lawn mower but managed