Friday July 24th

I spent the day over home again. Dad. & Frank cut the barley yesterday so Frank and I shocked it up this morning while Dad. shook out the hay along the side road which he said was pretty badly soaked and blackened. This after noon he hauled the binder back across the gully for Frank to cut the wheat back there and Frank & Tim got started cutting. By the time they got the binder loaded and back there and up to the house again it was four o'clock so Dad. & I just got two loads of wheat off the front field and the last one we didn't haul in the barn. We had Dick McPherson helping in the mow. He was game although the sheaves weighed about as much as he did and he had to go through some awful contortions to move them.This was my 30th birthday and I am therefore richer by the possession of eleven dollars in cash, a pair of garters a film and a little gold horseshoe tie-pin with pearls in it which used to be Clarence's and which Aunty gave me, besides all kinds of good wishes and ice cream for dinner at noon and another dinner with some of Aunty Alice's new potatoes to-night. Fine, warm & nice breeze.

Saturday July 25th