38 Teu 8 not much wind & hot out doors but I did not feel the heat on the school house. I went down to clean it. Paul went to Walmsly after soap in the fornoon. Marjorie making the curtians for the east window. Emily & the young ones called & they came down to the school house. I was tired enough scrubbing & moping & cleaning the wood work then I picked two pails of clover for the pigs. Wed 9 stiff wind from the west & the air felt like rain. I went down & finished the school house in the fornoon all but oiling the seals. churned after dinner. pulled a lot of weeds for the pigs. picked some cucumbers they dont ? much old Mrs Reeb burried today. Emily Lemmons husband died Sunday. I worked Mondays butter & put it in the crock for Milton Dell but he never came back this way. Hattie's face better Paul helping them to draw oats. Marjorie papered. set a small sponge tonight. Rale called with a eel? Thurs 10. warm west wind. very sultry for the wind. sun dreadful hot. Paul went to Chippawa had 6 1/4 butter @ 18.112 & one doz eggs @18.25 sugar milk & brush 15. gal oil 19. tea 13. soap 10. can salmon 15 1lb nails 4 fly pad 5 lemons 18 cheese 14. Marjorie baked bread. I worked the butter then went down & cut clover for the pigs my dress full & the 1.2 bushel full & some chaps out of our field. Paul helped them after he got home from Chippawa with their oats. Friday 11 Marjorie went to Reebs not so early as usual looked like rain all day & it sprinkled at times. Arthur & Hattie waited all day untill 2 Oclock for it to clear up. I churned in the fornoon after dinner I baked two pies 12 jelly tarts & cookies. I was just about roasted so close & sultry. Sat 12 hot yet it feels like a storm. I swept & cleaned the veranda & everywhere there was no carpet worked the butter. Paul took Eds money home. Marjorie got home late we had a bad storm mostly wind & rain from the north. after it would go over it would come up again Hattie came & stayed in the worst of it & we were so glad we all went out to milk for it threatened to come on then the air is a little cooler. Wills sow had 15 pigs this evening Sun 13 very cool wind. north east. Marjorie & Paul went to church & all from the other house. quite a turn out. We had disagreable callers then they went to the other house. Mon 14 I churned on. Arthur & Paul went to old Jerrys & he gave him a black eye. Will went & finished up affairs. Teu 15. I worked all the butter we had in different crocks. 19 lb 6 oz it looked so like rain it set on from the north east we kept the horse & calves in Will & Arthur Fred finished the oats at old Jerrys Pauls eye looks bad yet.

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