Thur Aug 6. Fine warm. walked to Roaches Pt. storm at 6 P.M.

Fri Aug 7. Fine and warm. went to Suton in afternoon.

Sat Aug 8. Fair but sultry with thunder. Dance in the evening.

Sun Aug 9. Very hot and sultry. rain in Toronto ut none at the lake untill 9.PM. Wylie up in afternoon took us for a drive in evening. Jacks ms Pt. Suttons. etc.

Mon Aug 10. Fine and quite cool. water quite rough. Mrs Mason and Annie up for the day. Mrs C. Teasdale called eve.

Tue Aug 11. Fine and cool. came home on. 11.30 car. cut grass and went to Willies in evening. Lorraine stayed with me.

Wed Aug 12. Fine an moderately warm. Willie finished cutting grain but none in yet.

Thur Aug 13. Fine and moderately hot. shower in evening.

Fri Aug 14 Fine and moderately warm. Clara Teasdale came in the afternoon. grass grown rapidly this week.

Sat Aug 15. Fine and quite warm we went to call on Miss Pages.

Sun Aug 16. Fine very warm. dust bad. at Meth-church in the morning, and walked to the grave-yard in evening, and called on Fanny Bowes.

Mon Aug 17. Fine, very warm. dusty. I had Pages and F. B. for tea

Tue Aug 18. Fine very warm. Annie came home.

Wed Aug 19. Fine, very hot. dusty. I was in Toronto.

Thur Aug 20. TUrned quite cool. but still dusty. I went to see Florence James in evening. Odwald rought me home Annie been here at nights many are toe harvest.

Fri Aug 21. Fine. very cool and dusty. Willies has one field out.

Transcription Tips

• Follow the example of transcribing provided in the first few PDF files of this diary.
• Click Edit when you’re ready to start transcribing.
• Click Detach to move the transcription box to a convenient location.
• Copy the text as it is, including misspellings and abbreviations.
• Start each new day with a new line. Otherwise ignore spacing and alignments.
• Use toolbar heading options for any headings in the text, i.e. diary titles.
• Use toolbar table generator for any tables in the text, i.e. finance records.
• Use toolbar comment option to add your own comments, i.e. illegible text or uncertain names or description of drawings.
• Use toolbar stroke through text option to transcribe crossed-out text.
• When done press "Save Transcription" to save your work.
• Note: If a line on one page appears to carry over on the same line on the next page, please check the next page and (if applicable) transcribe both pages together as if they are one page. Type your unified transcription under the first of the two pages.
• View more transcription tips.(Opens in new tab)