I went down to a party of Win's in Ada's ballroom. I was pretty late getting there and felt tired and sleepy when I left home, but got rather braced up down there. We had to say good bye to the Betling's to-night as they are going to-morrow morning, we were all very sorry to see them go. It looked very rainy early this morning but cleared off into a beautiful mild fore noon but this after noon it clouded up again and the wind veered to the north and got very cold and is freezing to-night.

Friday April 13th

Dad. got up early tis morning and went down to see the Bellings off. He had breakfast down there. We were rayther late getting the chores done up but when we did we earmarked all the lambs and put the association number in the ears of last year's lambs. We were just going to mark the little lambs the way we did last year with lamp black and il on their sides but Frank but Frank had been reading in Kleinheintz's book that they couldn't be too young to have the ear tags put in so we thought we would try it. It saves going over them twoce and the lampblack and oil makes bad spots in the fleece but we hated to do it to the little fellows. We did the last five after dinner. About four o'clock