We hurried at it and I am afraid got it a little out of line Enah went down to the deanery meeting this afternoon and had to stay to the choir festival or what ever it is to-night, she told me not to come after her but Dad. thought he had better so I went down, it was about nine o'clock when we got through tea so it was pretty late when I got down town and as I expected couldn't find Enah. I went down home for a while and when I got back we figured that I missed Enah as she was coming through Martin's field and Jack walked over with her. Frosty nights & hot days now. No wind.

Wednesday October 4th

We were very late getting out this morning and Dad. and I didn't quite get another hole dug by noon We finished after dinner and got another post up by six. We had quite a few visitors to-day which delayed us a little. Harvey Shand was past and said they expected a car of crushed stone in by Monday and wanted us to help unload it for the road. We havent done any road work yet this year. Another lovely day hot and no wind.

Thursday October 5th

Dad. and I spent most of the morning lining up the corner post at the crossroads but by noon we had a stake in that suited us. We just nicely got started to dig the two holes this after noon (we were going to put down the brace posthole the same time as the anchor post as we can put down two as fast as one, one digs while the other spuds) when Jack Highland came along and wanted us to take our bluegrass seed down to the car, so about three o'clock we went up and took our three bags and stopped and got six bags of Mr. Fleming's as he wasn't home, we got three dollars for our seed. We didn't have time to do any thing when we got home as we had to quit early to get down to Aunty Alice's for tea. We had a great time down there. Quint was there for tea but Joe Thompson called for him right afterwards to go to Vittoria I suppose to see the Dunkin's. Quint is home on what we suppose to be his last leave. The whole battalion is off. They have had a bad split in the 133rd. They have had a quarrel with Pratt and wanted him to resign but he wouldn't so Majors' Jackson, Burch and & Lieuts Hammond, Donovon & Capt. Slater did resign.

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