Tuesday June 13th

This morning I went dfown to Aunty's and took Tid with me to help work in the garden and incidentally to remove him from the imoending opewrations to be carried on here as Mrs McBride arrived just as we left and they have vbeend papwering the kitchen ceiling all day and generally house-cleaning ands tey thought his orersence would not be required. I spent the day digging the cellar nbanks and got them pretty well dug the house sid eof the f=drain, but not the woodshes side, however they were wqell pleased they said with what I did and it certainly did male quite an improvement. I came home aboyt four o'clock and did chores but dsidn;t get through in time to get up to the Barwells for tea but left soon after to give Zeitha a riding lesson she got on fine. She had been reading up on it in the encyclopedia and tried to put the theory to practice and didn;t lose her head or lose contreol of Joe so had a few good canters up and down the road. I didn;t stay late. Winnie was sover here to tea anf FRank went down with her after tea and I guess they went to apicture show. Dad. says Ham Thompson was in to-night feeling oretty blue asd another cow aborted just gone a few months and her is afraid it is contagious abortion. Fine, hot & sultry.