did up the chores. To-night Marj. & I went to the picture show and saw Jack Pickford in "Huck & Tom". It has been cloudy all day and rained hard this after noon & evening.

Thursday September 12th

I drove over to Tupper's as soon as I got up this morning but it was a little late there, but as the walking was so bad I drove the girls down to school. They were late waiting for me to get through with the chores. I didn't get through with my breakfast till after ten o'clock and then went down to Flemmings & Jack Martin's to tell them we expected the thrashers. When I got bak I spent the rest of the morning cleaning up my harness as it got pretty muddy. Dick and Frank spent most of the morning fixing up the granary. They put a partition in th emiddle bin and boarded up the tops so that the bins could be filled up to the ceiling. Dad. also battened up the cracks in the little box stall in the horse stable so that we can use in for a granary too. It rained nearly all day so we couldn't do much out side Aunty Alice came over to help Enah if the thrashers came and Dess came over too, she and Dick went down to the show to-night. I went over to Tupper'ssoon after five and did up the chores in the rain. No one had been there all day and Melissa didn't come home so the milk utensils didn't get a very good washing. When I got home I found they had got the machine here and Alan, Sam & Ray were just leaving, they had a hard time moving.

Friday September 13th

I got over to Tupper's this morning before day light and got the chores all done and home before they started to thrash. It wained a little and I suppose delayed them a little but it hasn't been raining at all to-day but has been cloudy, windy and cold. We thrashed pretty steadily all day and got every thing thrashed but one stack. The oats turned out well about fifty bushels to the acre, but the mixed grain did well too we just had 117 bushels of clear wheat. The stack really thrashed better than the stuff in the barn as it was a little tough but the stack was perfectly dry so all Dad's worrying over the rain was no use. We have to-night 65 bushels over the 1000 mark and the other stack to thrash yet so this will be away the best turn out. we have ever had. Tupper didn't get home to-day so I had to go over again to-night to do

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