Wednesday February 13th

We spent most of the morning getting things ready for and butchering our pig, and got it all done by noon. Dad. got a very nice stick and scale on her and she dressed a dandy. Charlie Munroe came in just as we started to scald so he helped us during the dressing operations. He walked over to get Dad. to look at one of his horses which has a bad cold so Dad. went back with him to dinner. This afternoon noon I got ready and went down town to have my tooth fixed but as it was after four when I got there Bill said I had better come early to-morrow after noon. I stayed at Aunty Alices to tea and went to church to-night this being Ash Wednesday. Marj. had proposed going up to Miss Martin's to-night but as she. Marj.. had a sore throat we didn't go & I called for Aunty Alice at Cousin Loll's and stayed down at Aunty's all night. We had a letter to-day from a man in {place?} inquiring about the prices of ram lambs, he having seen in the report of the Co-operative wool sales that we had the highest percentage of our wool in the highest grade of any one in Ontario. It has not been thawing all day but has been quite mild and cloudy. There came nearly being bad {frost?}

Thursday February 14th

I came home about nine o'clock this morning but as I had to go right back after dinner I didn't change my clothes. I wrote to Mr. Bent the man who inquired about the rams. and I also measured the lawn and flower beds as I had a letter from Mr. Tomlinson saying he has mis laid my first sketch and if I would send another he would be sure to send me a blue print. I went down town Aunty Alices for dinner and went up to Bills right after. He filled my tooth and found a hole in another one He couldn't finish the job right away so I went back at four o'clock, when he finished the job for which I paid him $1.50. While I was there the last time Karl Lemons came in and said the Penman's dam had gone out and the bridge had dropped at one end. I went down to Aunty Alice's and got my rubber boots on and she and Lila went down with me to see the wreck. It was a bad mess. The road at the north end of the bridge had caved in as the water has been leaking through the buttment of the dam all winter and washed a big hole out under the road. Then the big head of water coming from the last few day's thaw took the top of the north end

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