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John Jardine Sr. Diary, 1872-1879

	it has rained all afternoon and very near all night
8	Thursday morning it rains a little not much it is a cloudy all day no plowing to day the ground is very weet the ditches is very near full
9	Friday forenoon William Gracey & I was fixing the walk frunt of the house in the afternoon planting aple trees & locust trees it is fine all till ~~night~~ about 6 O clock it is a heavy rain with lighting & thunder the land is very weet no plowing yet
10	Saturday in the forenoon I went over to B vickerman had my dinner with him in the afternoon I shoveled the furrows acroce 6 lands that I had plowed to let the water of the ground it is very soft it is fine this afternoon
11	Sunday we are home no church to day it came up a shour of rain and hale about 12 O clock it maid the ground weet the water lays on the ground
12	Monday there is white froste this morning it is a fine forenoon the ground is very weet this afternoon i split cordood it looks like ran it did rain a shour in the night
13	Tuesday forenoon it is a butfull forenoon I helped Edward Trembley to make tow log heap and split som cordwood I split wood in the afternoon to
14	Wednesday the ground is very soft in the afternoon I roald the grace around the house
15	Thursday I went to the store and up the railroad in the forenoon in the afternoon

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