Tuesday December 12th

Dad & I killed and picked the 9 cockrels left in the crate this morning and Frank took the pinfeathers out of them. I got some of them stuck in the brain alright but some I didn't. I went over to Quanbury's at noon and got them to telephone to Simcoe to see what prices were like but they weren't extra so I decided to ship them to Silverwood's. I spent most of the after noon cleaning the feet & heads & shaping them and had to go down to post a letter. Aunty Alice came over with me to tea. I went down after to a practice. Snowed a little to-day.

Wednesday December 13th

Frank and I packed up the chickens and shipped them to Silverwoods this morning. This after noon we went down to the factory and got the buttermilk. I went down to tea at Aunty Alice's to-night Marj. Win. Clark & Dick were there. Got the first pullets egg to-day. Snowed enough to make sleighing.

Thursday December 14th

Put a fire in the shop & Frank & I started to oil the new harness this morning Dad. & I went down this after noon and he put Aunty's cellar windows in. Frank kept on oiling harness but didn't finish Got a letter from Ottawa, they wanted more money for records. Went to practice to-night.

December 31st Sunday.

As I have neglected to write this for ovwer two weeks I will just summarize the principal happenings. I will begin with the weather as we have had more of it than any thing else and it has been different from any we have had at this time of the year since we came over here being one continual "spell" of cold weather since the 9th except for one day when it rained and took off a lot of snow. The rest of the time it has hardly been above freezing once although never I think has it been quite down to zero. The sleighing has been fine but the skating except for the last few days since the rain has been poor on account of the snow on the ice. We have been busy all the time but just at chores and small jobs I got my returns from Silverwood's promptly and got 20 cts a lb. for the chickens $8.40 for the 9. We have been looking for our sheep records very anxiously all this time and Dad wrote them at Ottawa a rather sharp letter on Monday and Thursday they came Friday Dad. got a very courteous reply to his letter saying they had been very busy. Friday Frank