stayed down there to tea but went for a walk before tea down to the lake and up to Huby's. I found Huby planting potatoes. Cousin Clare was at Aunty's to tea. Aunty and I went to church to-night. After church Marj. and I walked up with Miss Martin. George Duncan came after Dad. this after noon to go and take a calf from a heifer but he got back before six. I don't know where Frank went to but I suppose back in the gully. It has not been much milder to-day and cloudy with an occasional drizzle.

Monday May 7th

Frank went down to Aunty's right after breakfast and has been down all day helping in the garden. He didn't get home till quite awhile after dark. Dad. has been ditching most of the day in the different fields. I spent the morning filling in the border bed along the chicken run fence with compost and earth. This after noon I levelled off the heap of clay in the drive house and made another fence post in there and mixed the cement on the floor of Billy's box stall. That took me about all the after noon. To-night I put the saddle on Queen and took her around the block. She went fine. Frank was telling us that Dave Low got a letter from Billy to-day from the hospital where he says he will have to be for three months. He said that he and young

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