he didn't stay long. We then all drove over there and got a few potatoes and took Tim a birthday present for to-morrow. He & Frank were skating on the pond. Marj. spent the evening reading a detective story that she got for Dick and was then scared to go to bed. I sat up trying to draw a horses head that looked like Josie to embellish a couple of verses that Marj. composed to go on a horse blanket that the family are giving Josie for Christmas. Much milder and snowing to-night.

Monday December 20th

It snowed several inches in the. ight and I went out before daylight and swept paths, but I might have saved my time as it has thawed and with a misty rain all day an to-night the snow is all gone. Art cam eover and finishe dhus cupboard to-day. I soent most of the forenoon tinkering asround the barn. I carried up scocial rails from the road and covered ob=ver the stall that I am going to fix for the calves with rails and hay. This after noon I did chores worked a little at the cjicken pen and then Joe & her Lee Long came with a load of hay so I helped them pout it off and by that time it was time to do night chores.Tom hauled a loa dof gravel for the lane this morning but ha dto have his team shod.