Friday June 2nd

After thebig rain on Sunday people seem to have been of the iopinionnthat the weather had "took up" using mr. Fleming's expression, I donlt know why unless it was because it turmned cold after it and the wimnd changed around but it doed that lately and at a minute notice any way, there was a new moon and a good many thought that would fix it but yesterday after noon public opinion veered around again and the general belief was that we were about to have another little "spell of weather", and this mornin's sultrrry airt and cliudy sunrise and the lake's growlo=ing convinced us all of the fail. Despite all thes eomens we fgot up pretty early and Framnk went back about half past seven. Dad.intended to take his team back after Frank got started but the sky soon began to darken and the rumbling and growling in the west began to get nearer so we didn't go I mowed the rest of the hay on the front lawn with the scythe but that didn;ttake long. About half past nine it began to rain and I had just time to get into the shop when it came down in sheets. The awful flashes of lightening sd=seemed so close that thunder almost cracked while it was there. This stormn lasted for ten or fifteen minutes