Ther. Wed. Jan 19,1898 Wea.

I got up and made a fire we then had out breakfast how beatiful every tree and shrub looks today, they have a heavy coat of hoarfrost on them, how worderful they look, nothing could be more beatiful, I scrubbed in the forenoon, and in afternoon I was knitting.

Ther. Tursday 20, 1898 Wea.

I rose and made the fire and then prepared the breakfast. The boys went to school , it is a very wet rainy day, I attended to the house work in forenoon and in the afternoon I started to make a west for W. Limebeer.

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