the temperature and it was very strong and from the west I worked with a coat on all day and was not too warm. This morning we shocked up the rest of the oats which were still pretty wet except where the wind & sun had hit them. It was nearly eleven when we got through with them but we put off the load of hay that was on the barn floor and got a load in before dinner which was about one o'clock. This after noon we finished hauling the hay in three pretty good sized loads. The baby came out and rode in on the last load, the promise of which has kept him out of the field for the past week or two. Frank went down town to-night

Sunday August 26th