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John Jardine Sr. Diary, 1872-1879

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10 Tuesday this morning I went to Peels mill with twenty bushels of wheat got it ground into flour & got home with it at noon William Spice & James Jardine is working at the rail fence all day I in the afternoon help them it is windy and cold to day agin still hard froze
11 Wednesday James & Spice & myself set the sawmchine at the door & began to saw stove wood it is very windy & cold to day
12 Thursday us thre is sawing stove wood at the door to day agin it is still very cold & windey it is frezing cold to day I had to put on my Oil cloth to keep the wind out
13 Friday we are still sawing at the door here is a little snow this morning and it is Pierceing cold to day fezing all day
14 Saturday it is frose hard this morning but it is a butful morning about 10 or 11 O clock it begins to thaw it is a butful day sunshiney day it is like spring all at once we are still sawing wood at the door to day agin
15 Sunday we are at home to day it is a butfull wheather the roads is drying fast
16 Monday we finished sawing wood at the door aard drawed manure to the appletrees and we piled chonks and brush 2 or 3 by the railroad fence to day it is a butful day
17 Tuesday James & Spice & I bilding the rain fence between reiney & I it is a very warm to day there is thunder & lighting but the rain past by
18 Wednesday we finished the fence this forenoon as far as I had rails in the there was quite a shoure of rain this forenoon

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