Tuesday October 11th

I went up to Ham's this morning and we managed to get the silo filled to-day. We had to wait quite awhile this morning for them to get the machine started but then we had a fairly steady forenoon Frank Awde and I were pitching on in the field back by the woods so as there were four teams hauling they kept us pretty busy. It looked very black in the north when we went back after dinner and we just nicely got started to load when a terrific wind got up, it got very dark and eventually started to rain, we finished putting on a fair load and then we got under the waggon for shelter. Whiteside's scotchman was teamster and he turned his team with their backs to the storm. We sat there for some time but as it didn't show any signs of letting up we went up to the barn. I only had a sweater on for extra clothes so got pretty wet and pretty cold. We found the rest of the gang in the barn so we sat around in there till the rain was over. Then Billy Mills, Frank Awde and I went back for another load & just nicely got back when it started up again and rained fairly hard while we were loading. I had my coat on over my damp sweater and so it got soaked.