Broke the runner off the sleigh. Very cold all day.

Saturday 30th Grinding corn. Mending sleigh. Cutting fire wood. Making saw horse. drawing fire wood. Phillip suffering with pain in the teeth. Paid Mr J Goble for forty two pounds of borrowed flour in flour. Fine and cool.

Sunday 31st Milder and Fine but not thawing.

Monday 1st 1855. January Mild and pleasant. Chopping Phil went to Turners this morning.

Tuesday 2nd. Mild and beautiful thawing all day. Underbrushing got 5 tubfuls of Sweeds home. Got the puppy home from Iden Gobles.

Wednesday 3rd. Mild and pleasant. Snow nearly all gone. Pulling turnips. cutting corn stalks etc. Strong wind blowing from the South east.

Thursday 4th. Rain in early morning, but cleared off Fine and cold with rain in northwest. Me and Robert at Craigs raising roof pulling turnips.

Friday 5th. Cold but pleasant. 3 of us to Craigs raising in the morn Phil to Kennedys: after turnips, underbrushing, setting up six troughs. Paul to George Burnes Canes? for 1854 £2.17. 8 ^1/2 d. Began to feed sweeds.

Saturday 6th. Rain, warm with strong easterly wind. Shelling corn. Cutting fire wood. digging parsnips pulling sweeds.

Sunday 7th. Fine but cool. very remarkable weather for the time of the year. The snow here all disappeared and the weather is more like Spring.

Monday 8th. Fine and cool. ground bare and quite hard: Ground corn to bushel of corn to Iden Goble for toll due him. Underbrushing. Examined potatoe heaps and found many

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