Tuesday March 23rd

This has been a very disagreeable day. Cloudy raw east wind and raining or snowing most of the time. I cleane dout the cellar but as I didn't work at it very hard it took me most of teh day. It was in bad shaoe as all the old pumpkins & squash that I put down there had rotted. I have been cudgelling my brains all day to figure out some way of relieving our financial situation as it seems useless to wait much longer for the fortune to come. We are about $300.00 in debt besides the mortgage of $300 and I have fgot to do some fencing this year and the two barns needs shingling. I also wamt to get a couple of good cows and set out some more fruit and if I could only dfinance it would try to run my brooder again and raise about 500 chickens. We looke dover my insuranc epolicy and couldborrow anut $225.00 or $280 after the next premium ids paid on it, but thatwouldn't pay our devbts, so i think I will have to try and raise about $700 on a mortgage if i can find the money.

Wednesday March 24th