Feb 22nd: Mild again, thawing some more running.

Feb 23rd: Put up 24 stakes for the first flat beds of the season. Turning colder again.

Feb 24th: Real winter again today, cold with some snow flurries.

Feb 25th: Sowed first Seeds. 8 oz. Copenhagen Lettuce, 1 oz. Viking Cabbage, 1 oz. Snow Ball Cauliflower, 8 oz. World Beater Pepper, ½ oz. Harris Giant. We done all Stokes Seeds also 4 sack our own field pepper seed & 1. Weather very cold but sunny, 3 below at 8 a.m. some report as low as 10 below.

Feb 26th: Sunday fair did not get very cold down to 7 below.

Feb 27th: Fair & cold, doing some more pruning & drawing wood out of orchard.

Feb 28th: Pruning & drawing wood & making a few more hotbeds also put in a load of slabs from sawmills.

Feb 29th: Drawing wood etc. a little colder.

Mar 1st: Windy, cold & a few snow flurries. Finished getting in "196 bolts" and about ½ ton from last year. Started to paint our kitchen.

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