January 2, 1892 - Saturday.  Softer than yesterday.    S.J. and Martin Johnson up today.   Adam Johnson went to Riversdale.  Almon here.  Was baking today.  Christy here to dinner.  They all went home tonight from our shanty except Bub, D.M., self, and children;  and from the other, except Mr MacKay and D. McLeod.

January 3, 1892 - Sabbath.  Still soft.  We were up a little earlier than last Sabbath.  Mr MacKay and D. Mcleod here for dinner.   The crowd all came back this afternoon.

January 4, 1892 - Monday.  Rainy.  So bad this afternoon that they stopped work at quarter time.   Adam Johnson here today.  Little Andy came up tonight.  Adam Wright was up too.  Two new men came to the other shanty tonight.    One of them is a piper, and they are all up hearing him play.  We must go too, I guess; but it's raining hard. 

January 5, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Bad weather for logging.   Morrison went to Truro today, and back on the noon train. He walked to and from Riversdale.  Got me a salt cellar.   They began piling a new deal pile.  The other one got too high to carry deal up.   Mrs Robert MacKay called this afternoon.  She was up visiting Jane.   She is stopping this evening to hear W. Harrington play the bagpipes.

January 6, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day, but rainy and snowy tonight.  Put the clothes soaking today and baked biscuit.  Ad Wright was over to Riversdale for us.  He brought the barrel of molasses, factory cotton, overshoes, boots etc.  Morrison got a pair of boots for me yesterday.   Johnnie Willie and Willie were down tonight.  Guess the rest of the other shantymen have forsaken us.  Alden has his new boots on now.  They fit fine.

January 7, 1892 - Thursday.  An awful rainy day.  No work done anywhere in this mill or woods either.    The water was pretty high.I was up to the other shanty for a while.

January 8, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  Rather cold tonight.  Was baking this forenoon and part of the afternoon.  Washing too.   Got my clothes out about 3 o'clock.  Andy Graham was up here for dinner.  he brought the mail.   I had a letter form Edith today.  Adam Wright was over to Riversdale, and brought over a barrel of apples for us.  The piper was down tonight playing his pipes.

January 9, 1892 - Saturday.  It rained and snowed both, last night.  But was fine today.   Very disagreeable logging and sawing.  They just sawed half a day. Then they all went home but Fos (of our crowd),  and he went to Riversdale after a .......?.....  .  I wrote to Edith today.  Did not get much of a letter written.    Did not do much work, as there didn't seem too much to do.  It is clear tonight.   Jane and Billie  Harrington were down, but they have gone home now and Foster went up too.

January 10, 1892 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Not very sunshiny.   Quite lonesome.  Fos, Alex Sutherland, Billie Harrington and Morrison went up to the lake in the afternoon.   Jane was down with me.    Cal and Alf,  and Almon,  Johnnie Willie,  Lew, Willie and Johnnie Mackay  came back at night.  Guess the old shanty of Graham's got a washing this afternoon.

January 11, 1892 - Monday.  Fine.  A little drying.  They sawed all day.  Bub got back about three o'clock.  Morrison sawed.   They started to jam the saw and broke the burr.  I was upto the other shanty a few minutes, getting Johnnie Willie's cards for him.  lew Fulton came down with me to get some apples.

January 12, 1892 - Tuesday.  Not very fine, but not stormy.  Mr Mackay and D.M.  went to Riversdale this morning.   Morrison did not start until after Mr MacKay.   James William Deyarmond and Henry Graham  were here to dinner.   They were on their way out to Johnson's.   Johnnie Willie went out too.  He has left Alex's.   Herb Higgins got his foot cut and came home today.    Maggie MacKay came home from Truro today.   Sewed a little this afternoon. Baby rather fussy.  Alf has toothache - bad.   Roy went up to Jane's this afternoon and stayed quite a while. 

January 13, 1892 - Wednesday.  Dark all the forenoon.  Rainy the latter part of the afternoon and evening.  Baked today.  Had good bread.  Made buns too.    Alfred went to get his tooth out.  Left at quarter time. 

So Morrison had to be in the mill the rest of the day.   Geordie MacKay went home sick, too.   Maggie MacKay came in to Jane's shanty this afternoon.  Guess she is stopping overnight.  Fos is up at Alex's tonight.  The rest are all at home.   Lew Fulton was down for some apples, but did not stay.    Minnie, and Edith intended going to Johnson's today. 

January 14, 1892 - Thursday.  Foggy and wet.  poor logging.   They just sawed until quarter time this afternoon.    Maggie MacKay was down this forenoon and till quite a while after dinner.    She finished Roy's pants and made a sheet for me.   Mr McKennie sent in after the gunner (?) today.    Bub is reading "The Life of Frank and Jessie James", D.M. and Uncle Ad are talking by spells, the rest are up at the other shanty.  Roy and Alden are sleeping.

January 15, 1892 - Friday.  A wet day.  Rainy all day.   No work done in the mill.  Adam Johnson went home this forenoon. The rest, all but Almon, he went to Riversdale and home to the shanty this evening.   Didn't do much this afterrnoon only read, etc.  Its terribly lonesome in the woods.  Willie MacKay, Lewis Fulton, Alex Sutherland, and Willie Harrington here.   Alex favored us with some fine somgs. 

January 16, 1892 - Saturday.  Dark and soft.  Almon, Willie, Lew and Maggie went home this forenoon.  I baked some pies after dinner.   Morrison was trying to gum the saw, but broke all the burrs.   Then he went in to R. MacKay's to get a grindstone to grind the saw, but was unsuccessful.   Ned and Jane went down to Lodge.  We are quite alone here tonight.  It is freezing.

January 17, 1892 - Sabbath.  Pretty cold.  Just a little snow flying.  Roy's third birthday.   We got up, that is Morrison got up, about 8:30.  I about an hour later.  The morning was quite cold.  Words fail me to give a description of a Sabbath in the woods on the (or rather off), the Riversdale Road.  Our crowd, except Adam Johnson, returned at night.   They were somewhat noisy.   Jane came in at dinnertime.

January 18, 1892 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Don't know what the weather is going to do tonight.   They were trying to fix the saw all the forenoon.   But they have to take it to Truro to get fixed.   So they put an old one on.   Bub don't like it much.   I baked most all day today and mixed bread tonight.    Such creatures to eat, as men are!!!!   Jane was down a while, also W. Harrington later.   Well, they've all retired but D.M. and youngsters, so I must go and do likewise, and spare  my scrawling for another occasion.

January 19, 1892 - Tuesday.  Wet.  Very rainy.   Only sawed a quarter.  Was baking loaf bread.   Got done before dinner , or about that time.  Charlie came in in the afternoon.   He was pretty wet.  J.W. Deyarmond is firing at Johnson's for him for a few days.  Charlie is not very well.  Read "In Cupid's Net" aloud this evening.  Charlie is up at the other shanty to stay all night.

January 20, 1892 - Wednesday.  Rather snowy.  Colder tonight.  Sawed all day.   James and Martin Johnson were in today fixing up the road to haul deal.   We've been playing "Authors" until a short time ago.

January 21, 1892 - Thursday.  Colder.  Pretty frosty.   Morrison went to Truro today.    He started about 9:45.   They just worked until dinner time today.  The saw did not work at all.   Charlie and Howard were here for dinner.   Morrison got home about nine o'clock.  He got a burr.    Jane and Billie were down this evening.  We were playing "Authors", "Old Maid" etc.

January 22, 1892 -  Friday.  Cold and frosty.  James, Minnie, J.McGill and Martin Johnson and James Brown were in today. The men were building their shanty for their horse.  They made it of deal.   Andy Graham was up with the mail as usual.  Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, is dead.  He died january 14, 1892.   He was Duke of Clarence and Avondale, and wasss soon to be married to Princess Victoria Mary of .....?....   .

January 23, 1892 - Saturday.  Snowy.  Pretty good sleighing.  Messrs Samuel  and James Johnson in today fixing up the road.   They have it fixed fine.   Got the work all done up about four o'clock and Morrison and I and Roy went home.    Fos came later.  We got home about half past five.

January 24, 1892 - Sabbath.  fine, windy and cold.  There was Y.S.C.E.S. in the afternoon;  also preaching.  D.M. andI were at preaching.  It was  Review Sabbath.  All the other crowd, and all of ours except Bub were at preaching.  Fos went out to the woods after supper.  Johnnie Willie, Wood, Herb Higgins, and William Power were in our house after meeting.

January 25, 1892 - Monday.  Pretty fine - snowing.  Morrison, I and baby came up about ten o'clock this morning.  James Johnson and Minnie were up shortly before us.  They sawed all day.  Martin came up after dinner.  He is going to haul deal.  And James Brown at night.

January 26, 1892 - Tuesday.   Fine and warm.  Too soft for deal-hauling.   J. McGill Johnson and Lyman Fulton came in today.  Minnie slept up with Jane last night, and is going to tonight too.   Her bedstead is not up yet.   Morrison made a table and stool today.   They just worked three-quarters of a day.    The trimmer pully broke and D.M. has to go to Truro tomorrow.  Clarence Johnson and Fos are down country tonight.  Minnie and I were up at Jane's a while.

Januaey 27, 1892 - Wednesday.   Somewhat snowy, but it makes better sledding.  Alfred, Cal and Morrison went to Truro this morning.  Adam Johnson went home after dinner.  Minnie was baking.  Bub making an axe handle.  Adam Wright was in in the afternoon after wood.  Johnnie Willie was in too.   They got home about nine or shortly before.

January 28, 1892 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Snowing a little.  I washed today.  Morrison got cold last night and was not very well today, but he had to work inthe mill, as A Johnson was away.  He and Mrs J. went to Riversdale.  James Graham was in this afternoon.

January 29, 1892 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  A little snowy.  Minnie and I baked cakes inthe forenoon, and had a holiday in the afternoon.   Jane was down and she and Minnie were getting ready for the dance down at Fulton's Old Mill.  Wild's crowd made it.  They took the sled and our horse and one of Willie MacKay's.  Fos, Cal, Almon and Minnie of our crowd, and Willie, Geordie and Jane MacKay, Billie Harrington and Lew Fulton of the other crowd went.  Guess they had a good time.   Billie had his pipes there.   It was quite early when they got home.   Minnie is dreadful sleepy.  Charlie came in.

January 30, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day after the frosty night.  We baked cakes this afternoon.  Mr Samuel Johnson and Byde were in today.   Cal, Bub, Uncle Ad, and Byde went home tonight.  Almon began hauling deal today.  Mr James Johnson amd Martin also went home.

January 31, 1892 - Sabbath.  Snowy and hailing.   Minnie and Jane rather on the sick list.  Jane pretty bad.  Byde Johnson, Lyman Johnson, and Charlton Crowe, from Johnson's were in here to dinner.  Minnie is up with Jane tonight.  She is not well.

February 1, 1892 - Monday.  Pretty fine this forenoon. Very fine afternoon.  Minnie worse.  Jane, no better this morning, and Willie took them home after dinner.  James Johnson and Samuel came up this afternoon.  Martin is sick and Cal is driving the team.  Uncle Sam is working in the mill.   We have the deal-haulers now/  They have no cook up at the other shanty now.   Don't know how I will get along now.  Probably allright.

February 2, 1892 - Tuesday.  Fine.  A beautiful day.  Didn't get much of anything done this forenoon except the "had-to-be-dones".   The deal-haulers had their dinner about eleven.  After dinner , Morrison went to the Corner, and I worked, or hurried at the work all the afternoon.  Baked cakes etc.  Mr J. McGill Johnson  visited me when getting tea.  Mrs R. MacKay was cooking up at the other shanty today.

February 3, 1892 - Wednesday.  A little snowy, but not very stormy. Roy came up last night with Morrison.   Morrison went to Riversdale this forenoon to meet Mr and Mrs Samuel Tupper, who returned with him amd. after getting their dinner here, drove down to Mr Samuel Johnson's.  They intend going down to Mrs Tupper's mother's on Friday.  Uncle Sam went home with them.  Uncle James went home, sick.  Was very busy today.  Have my hands full with twelve men.

February 4, 1892 - Thursday.  Stormy.  Snowed allday.  The teams went to Riversdale only one trip today.   They started out deal this afternoon.   They just sawed until quarter time this afternoon.  The loggers didn't work either.   Mrs MacKay was down this forenoon a short time.  Was bakling today.  Morrison mixed the bread.  Baby is not very well.  He is quite fussy.  Byde Johnson came up from home tonight.  He and Howard were here to dinner.   Byde is going to drive his father's team until he gets better.  Howard is sick  and is going home.

February 5, 1892 - Friday.  Quite stormy last night.  Snow piled pretty high, but it is very light.    Was up pretty early - was very busy all day.  Andy Graham was up with the mail.  Mrs Blaikie sent me a thimble.   The teams only went one trip to Riversdale.  Byde began driving his father's team today.

February 6, 1892 - Saturday.  A pretty cold day.  James Johnson was up today and rued bargains about boarding men.  He went home after dinner.  Adam Wright went down to the mill with a load of wood and I guess he won't get down until near midnight.   Papa and Janie and Nettie came up tonight and are staying all night.  Papa's foot is better now.   Warren Johnson came up with a team and his father and Lyman Fulton went home.  Warren is staying until Monday.

February 7, 1892 - Sabbath.  A beautifully fine day.  Papa and Janie and Nettie went home after dinner.  Roy went down to Grandma's with them.  Fos went out to Johnson's this afternoon.

February 8, 1892 - Monday.   Rather snowy.  Looks like snow tonight.   Mr and Mrs James Johnson came up this morning and moved their effects up to Mr MacKay's shanty.   They took the boarders back and they are there now.  Andy Graham was up for dinner.  Alfred began hauling deal this forenoon.  He and Cal are both hauling now.   Adam Johnson took a load of wood down to our place this afternoon and he intended coming back to his own place tonight and here in the morning.

February 9, 1892 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  Not very cold.   Only Morrison, Fos, Bub and Ad in the mill this forenoon.   Alf went to work in the afternoon.  Mr and Mrs Samuel Tupper were here to dinner.  They brought the horse back.  Morrison took them over to Riversdale and he has not got back yet.   They are all in bed now except myself and baby.  Almon came back this forenoon, he is hauling deal again and boarding here. 

February 10, 1892 - Wednesday.  A very fine day.  Rather cold tonight.   Morrison got back about eleven o'clock last night.  I was in bed.  Adam Johnson was sick last night.  His back troubled him.   He worked until dinner time, and then went home.  Took the colt.  John McGill Johnson was sick this forenoon too, and only went one trip to Riversdale.  They just had four hands in the mill after dinner but they did a good lot of sawing.

February 11, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day, but snowy and blustery tonight.  Mrs Adam Johnson came up with Uncle Sam this morning.  She is going to stop until Saturday.  Uncle Sam began wotk at quarter time in the morning.   We had a fine time tonight.  Quite a number of our neighbours were down: Mrs MacKay. Mrs Johnson, J.McG. Johnson, Nellie MacKay, Lew Fulton, Billie Harrington, Alex Sutherland, Mr Brown, Campbell Brown, Lyman Fulton, etc.  We had the pipes played by Billie Harrington, and Morrison played the fiddle.  Lew Fulton and Willie MacKay favored us with a song - "My Old Cabin Home".  Mrs A. MacKay, Mrs A. Johnson, Nellie MacKay, and Lew Fulton danced a reel.

February 12, 1892 - Friday.  We had a wild storm last night.  Drifted the roads all full.  Fos and Geordie did not  get back last night, but after starting from Mr MacKay's about five o'clock, they just arrived here about tea.  Guess they had a hadr time getting here.   Sandy McLean came in tonight.   Mrs A. Johnson and I washed this afternoon.

February 13, 1892 - Saturday.  Pretty fine.  Snowed some.   They sawed this forenoon, but some of them went to break the roads down along.   Fos and Aunt Mary went home a while after the road breakers had started.    Mrs MacKay and Mrs Johnson went home too.

February 14, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.   Only Almon, who is better, and Sandy here, besides ourselves.   Up at the other shanty are:  J.M. Johnson, James Brown, Bampbell brown, Mr Mackay, Lyman and Lew Fulton, Alex Sutherland, etc.  We had some music in the afternoon.  Vocal and instrumental.  Fos and Bub came back tonight, also James.

February 15, 1892 -  Monday.  Soft.  Raining a little tonight.  Minnie came in today.  Alf came about half past ten or eleven.  Fos is sick.  Baby is not well either.  Almon went home this morning, and  Uncle Sam came up and got the sleigh and colt to take May and children over to Riversdale.  Then he came in here.    I got a letter from Edith tonight.  She talks some of coming home, but....       we'll see.    Wood and Howard are in tonight and they are playing cards here now.

February 16, 1892 - Tuesday.  Rather soft.  Wind raw and cold.   Fos better.  He worked today.  They did a big day's sawing today.   Almon came up and took a big load of wood down to our place.

February 17, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day, also a fine night.   Minnie and Jane down this evening.  Also some of the men.    Don't feel overly well tonight.  Got earache, and cold. Put the clothes out this afternoon.  We had some fun with Campbell Brown about a bunch that was sent out to the woods.   I am deaf and made a fool of the whole thing.

February 18, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Frosty night.  Alf worked this forenoon and he drove the team to Riversdale after dinner.  His father went home with rhumatism.  Uncle Sam went home too.  Cal canted in Alf's place this afternoon.  I sent a letter off to Edith today.  Feel better tonight.  Bathed my feet last night and laid in bed until half past seven this morning.  Morrison got breakfast and mixed the bread.  Mrs P.S. Hamilton, and Mrs C.E. Graham  and little Etta were up this morning to Mr MacKay's.   They were down here a little time this afternoon.   Emily and Mart and Uncle Sam came up tonight.

February 19, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day , after a very cold night.  Emily was with me all night last night.  The engine ran off twice today.  Andy wasn't up today.  Guess he must be sick.

February 20, 1892 - Saturday.  Fine and warmer.   Emily with me most of the day.  Uncle Sam, Martin and Sandy here all day.  They stopped work at five o'clock tonight so that some of us could go home.  Sandy. Uncle Sam. Fos. Morrison and I went home.  Also baby.  Mart and Bub kept house.   Emily came down on the team with Alf.  Byde did not go down.  Charlie, Lyman, Turner and James William came home from the other mill - out at Johnson's.  There was no lodge.

February 21, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Edith.s twentieth birthday.  No preaching.  The house seemed very warm compared with the shanty.  Jane, Min and Willie went up to see Mrs A. MacCallum.  Fos went up to the shanty.  James William went back to Johnson's.  Baby had colic pretty bad. 

February , 1892 - Monday.  Fine.  Rather doft.  Ad Johnson down this morning.   Mrs Blaikie and Roy came up this morning and took some hay down.  They are better there.  Charlie is going to bring  the colt and sleigh up tomorrow. Uncle Sam came up about nine.  Sandy came back at dinner time.  Mart here all day.  Minnie was down twice today. Jane was not down at all.  The loggers began back of our shanty this morning.

February 23, 1892 - Tuesday.  A beautiful day.  Charlie came up this morning with the colt and sleigh, and went out to Johnson's mill after dinner.  Alf and Cal did not go over to Riversdale until after dinner.  They took boards over.  Cal got $6.00 from Mr Mckennie.  Jane and Min were down two or three times today.  They are sawing a quarter tonight as it is so fine.  We got our bag of beans.  Adam Johnson took a load of wood down to our house this afternoon .

February 24, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Also warmer.  Snow getting soft.  Alf went out to work in the Johnson Mill.   Almon began to work in our mill after dinner.   Uncle Sam went home.  Adam Johnson took down a load of wood to our house.  Mrs A. MacKay was up getting oil, etc.  I was baking bread today.  Byde went out to Johnson's yesterday and came back today. His hand was too sore to work.  He left at noon, but Mart is going to haul deal.  Uncle Sam came up tonight.  Lewis Fulton is here tonight - writing a letter.

February 25, 1892 - Thursday.  Still fine and soft.  Light flurries of snow tonight.  But not very much sign of freezing.  Cal went out to work in Johnson's mill this morning.  Mart is driving the team.  Mr MacKay was over to Riversdale today.  Mr Adam Johnson took a load of deal over after dinner.  Jessie MacKay came up with him.  She brought us two and a half pounds of butter, and got a gallon of molasses. 

February 26, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  Snow thawing.  Morrison went to Riversdale this morning and back at dinner time.   Charles Proven was taking Mable Crockett over to Riversdale and came in here and got  his dinner.  I was baking today.  Am not done yet.  Was rather out-of-sorts today.  Did not feel very well.Had heart disease etc.

February 27, 1892 - Saturday.  A pretty cold night last night.  And I guess it will be colder tonight.  Cold all day too.  Colin Johnson and Hugh Mackay were in today.  Also Layton Ross, and Murdoch McLean (Junior).    Sandy's brothers were in too.  The latter stayed here for dinner.  Little Andy brought upthe mail.   I had a letter form Mrs Walters , in Marshfield.   Fos, Uncle Sam and Adam and Almon went home from here tonight; and Willie and Geordie MacKay, Lewis Fulton, James Johnson's folks, and Mart from the other shanty.

February 28, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  But a very cold night last night.  Mr MacKay, J.McG. Johnson and Janie went to preaching and back again.    Mr Fraser intended coming in here, but as so many were down to the School house, he didn't.  Alf and Cal were in to dinner on their way out to Johnson's.  It is a cold night, but not so cold as last night.

February 29, 1892 - Monday.  A fine day.   Pretty cold last night.  Adam was canting in place of Almon today.   They only worked three-quarters of a day.  Uncle Sam was working on the trimmer.  Fos did not get up until almost eleven.   John Blaikie came back last Friday.  He is coming  up tomorrow afternoon, he says.

March 1, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Colder tonight.  Morrison went to Truro today.   We got a high-chair  for Alden.  James Brown and McGill Johnson went home this afternoon.  James Brown is coming back on Thursday.  McGill is not coming back at all.   Uncle John came up a little after dinner, and is staying all night.  Andrew Dickie was up and got some fencing.  He dined up at Mr MacKay's.

March 2, 1892 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Cold night last night.  Uncle John was shovelling sawdust this forenoon, and he took a bundle of hay and the horse and sleigh down home after dinner.  Duncan Johnson is down tonight.  Robbie Ellis was in this afternoon.

March 3, 1892 - Thursday.  A stormy, snowy day.  Pretty rough.  Bub went to Truro to get a wheel for the carriag.   He walked over to Riversdale this morning, and Sandy is driving over after him tonight. Uncle John brought the wheel-barrow up this forenoon and walked down home this afternoon.

March 4, 1892 - Friday.  A stormy day.  Rainy.  No work done today.    Willie's horses ran off and went out to Adam Wright's gate.   Good day for snowballing.  Most work done was Duncan's wrestling.    Mr MacKay and Uncle Sam went home.  A general shave among the gentlemen.  Those who didn't shave amused themselves playing Authors.  Evening passed with pleasant smiles and songs (Willie MacKay).

March 5, 1892 - Saturday.  Rainy and snowy.  Very soft underfoot.  No logging or sawing.  The loggers were making and starting out timber.   James Johnson, Byde and Martin went home this forenoon.  Fos, Jane and Minnie went out to Lon MacCallum's.  Min is stopping until Monday.  Fos and Jane came back about five o'clock.  Johnnie Willie and Cal were here for dinner.  How, and Muir McCabe were up at the other shanty.    Almon went home this morning and Bub tonight.  Morrison and I spent the evening alone.  Sandy and Fos were up at Alex's.    I was reading "Without a Home" aloud, also baking.

March 6, 1892 - Sabbath.  A nice warm day.  We didn't have any but two meals today.  Were not up until nine.    Jane, Campbell and Lew were down.   It was a very quiet day all round.

March 7, 1892 - Monday.  Quite warm yet.  Bub came up this forenoon.  Also, Mr Power, Mrs Blaikie and Roy.  The latter stayed until after dinner.  Minnie is not back yet.  Morrison and Fos were working tonight, at the engine until after nine.  Got our BBB of oat meal.  Had a letter form Edith.    They didn't begin work until after dinner.

March 8, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Thawing fast.  The crank of the engine broke today.   They put in the old one.  Morrison was at riversdale. today.  Stayed for dinner.    Baked oat-meal cookies this afternoon, also a bread pudding.  Uncle Ad went down with a load of hay after dinner.  That is, down to our place.  He is back now.   Also Uncle John.   Minnie came back this afternoon.  We are most done here.

March 9 , 1892 - Wednesday.  Wet and rainy.  Brook rising.  They didn't work much today, it was so wet.  Sawed this forenoon and until quarter time in the afternoon.  Uncle Sam went home.  He and John Blaikie went home together.

March 10, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine.  Sawed all day.  Uncle John came up this forenoon.  They went to Riversdale.  That is, the deal-haulers did.  I wrote to Edith.  Finished reading "Without a Home" tonight.

March 11, 1892 - Friday,  Dark.  Some heavy showers.  James Johnson's crowd went home.  Min , too.  Our numbers are very much diminished.  Alex Sutherland went down the country today.

    "We hear that Lewis Fulton wxpects to be here for dinner tomorrow.  But I do hope he won't

      bring his dinner with him, for his appetite is awful.  Indeed he has lost his own appetite and

      found the Ox's.  So Myra, beware.  This is the advice of your friend and neighbour,  J.C. (?)"

    "The boys are dreadful bad this evening.  I do not know what we shall do with them.  I know!

      Give them some broth without any bread, whip them all soundly and send them to bed.  That

      is what I say. " Lew

    " Oh, Myra, what bad children we have.  "

    "Lost, strayed or stollen, our beautiful forest cat.  The pet of all the crowd, especially Lew's

      and mine.  Such a sweet little, neat little, pet cat.   Well Myra Dear, in after years, when this

      you see, think of the times in Forest Home,  and the times we have had together.I am ever

      your true friend and well-wisher, " Florence Jane MacKay

    "Just as I am, remember me. to be a friend to thee. Yours truly," Lew Fulton

March 12, 1892 - Saturday.  Pretty windy and cold.  Charlie and Lyman in.  They came last night about nine o'clock.  We moved home from the woods today.   Got our dinner about ten o'clock at the shanty.  Jane drove me home.  John Blaikie brought the colt up.  Mart and James Johnson moved the engine.  Willie, and Adam Wright, the other stuff.  The company had luncheon at three o'clock at our house.  Charlie and Lyman went out to the Mulgrave Factory to get their pants, but were unsuccessful.

March 13, 1892 - Sabbath.  Cold and squally.  Also windy.  Rev. Mr Baird preached today.   His text was Phillipians 3 - 7.   He administered a rebuke to some boys in the "Old Nick's Corner" at the school house.  Charlie went out to Johnson's this afternoon.

March 14, 1892 - Monday.  Cold and squally with glints of sunshine.  John went up to get the last of the stuff at the shanty.   Fos, Bub and Morrison went down to John Gourley's this morning , and have not returned yet.   We spent a very quiet day, relieved only by the scholars making us a short but lively call after school.  Baby seems homesick for the shanty.  It is a very cold night and Andy has just left , for Aunt Eliza's, I guess.

March 15, 1892 - Tuesday.  Cold, windy and squally.  Morrison and Bub away looking round the woods this forenoon, and Morrison alone this afternoon.  Almon brought a load of mill stuff down tonight.  He had been to Riversdale with deal.   James and Cam[bellbrown  went up to James Johnson's this afternoon.  They got our pung.  Left their wagon here.  Baby Alden has got cold and is not very well, and rather troublesome.  Maggie MacKay brought our kitten down this morning.  It went in there from the woods a week ago.

March 16, 1892 -  Wednesday.  Finer and warmer.  Quite a nice day.  We washed this forenoon.  Had a large washing.  Uncle John went to Otterbrook, Stewiacke Village, etc.  Bub and Morrison were getting wood and running round the woods all day.   James and Campbell Brown went home today. Mrs Crockett and Jenny were in tonight.

March 17, 1892 - Thursday.  Finer.  A nice day.  Bub and Morrison went up to the shanty this morning and did not come down until tea time.  They were moving mill machinery down. I finished Minnie's tidy this afternoon.  Mable Crockett was down this afternoon, visiting.  There was no prayer meeting.  Uncle John came back.

March 18, 1892 - Friday.  Not so fine.  Snowing tonight.  Bub and Uncle John were up to Forest City this forenoon.  Messrs Samuel and James Johnson were down fixing up their deal this afternoon.   Uncle John is not very well.  His teeth are sore.   Charles Graham and Duncan were over a short time.

March 19, 1892 - Saturday.  A very stormy day.  Raining and then snowing.  Didn't do much but the chores.  Baby is troublesome - getting his teeth.

March 20, 1892 - Sabbath.  A pretty fine day, but rather cold.  No preaching or Y.S.C.E. either.  Andy and Henry Graham were in in the afternoon.  Baby Alden is still troublesome.

March 21, 1892 - Monday.  Pretty fine but a cold wind.  Bub and Uncle John were cutting and hauling wood all day.   They were getting it over the brook.   Morrison was "up along" this forenoon amd "over the way" after dinner.   I was coloring mat-rags in the forenoon and Mrs B. and I were cutting them this afternoon.   There is a dance down at Fults (the Frank Fulton place) tonight.  Bub and Charlie (who has come home tonight) are there.   Baby is better today.  Mrs B. is not very well.  Almon was down this morning and got our sled.  He was going to haul wood for James W. Deyarmond, but,  as J.W. had gone to the woods, he (Almon) came home.

March 22, 1892 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  Not cold.   Morrison went to Riversdale this morning.  Charlie went to Truro in the afternoon.  Uncle Ad was down after dinner and Mrs Blaikie went down to J.W. Deyarmond's with him.   He was at the Corner.   Bub went up to James Johnson's to fine his axe.  I was making bread and washing.

March 23, 1892 - Wednesday.  Dark this morning.  Snowing tonight.   Bub and Morrison in the woods today.   We were coloring mat-rags and cutting them.   Mrs B. was over to Aunt Anne's this morning.    Ned Graham was here to dinner.  Mrs James Guild is not so well as she was, and Mrs B. is talking of going to Truro to see her.   Lew Fulton has bought David Bentley's  place.   The latter has bought Sydney Smith's farm. 

March 24, 1892 - Thursday.  Rainy.  Very wet underfoot.   Alfred Johnson was down to settle with Morrison this morning and he took Roy up home with him.   Morrison went up in the afternoon and came home at night bringing Roy, and Charlie, who has been to Truro.  A.R. Higgins was here to dinner.   He seems very sociable.   Charlie brought his father a draw-knife.  There is prayer meeting tonight.  Mr and Mrs Fraser are up.

March 25, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  Thawing a lot.  Bub took his dinner to the woods today.  Ned was in the woods too.  Morrison did not go up until after dinner.   Charlie went away to get an axe ground.   We put in our mat this afternoon.   Morrison made us a hook.  Mr Ralph McCabe came here this afternoon.  He is from Greenfield and is staying all night.  Almon is down after buckwheat meal.

March 26, 1892 - Saturday.  Cloudy but not much cold.  Charlie and Charlton (Tat)Crowe came last evening.   Bub went over to Fisher's Blacksmith shop and to J. Rutherford's today.  He returned about three or four o'clock.  Mr McCabe went home shortly after breakfast.   Morrison was up at the brow this forenoon.  Ned was hauling.  Gilmore Creelman was up with pants for Charlie, Tat Crowe and Lyman Johnson.  Lodge tonight.

March 27, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Thawing a good deal.  Preaching this afternoon.   Mr Fraser's discourse was delivered from Acts VIII, 35. It was a good sermon, I thought.   Morrison stayed home with Roy and Alden.  Mrs Sydney Smith and Frank were up to preaching, likely for the last time.

March 28, 1892 - Monday.  A cold wind.  Thawing some.   Mrs Blaikie went to Truro.  Charlie went out to Johnson's this morning, and intended going to Truro this afternoon.  Lewis Fulton and David Bentley went to Truro today, too.    Mr and Mrs James Johnson were down  this afternoon a little while.  Also Ruby E. Graham.

March 29, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Uncle Charlie moving to the woods.  He got our stove.  Is logging for the Pictou Graham's.  Cooking in P.S. Hamilton's house.   Bessie Deyarmond and Libbie Graham were here a little while tonight. Uncle John came back.  Charlie went down to J . Gourley's to see Fos.   Andy was here this morning and reported Mysie very ill.

March 30, 1892 - Wednesday.   Fine, but a cold wind.  Bub at the woods, also Ned and Almon.    Morrison went over to Riversdale after Mrs B.   They got back about four.   Mrs James Guild is better.   Charlie got back this morning.  He was at Mr C. Graham's last night.  Sydney Smith's auction was today.  Sent a letter to Edith.

March 31, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine, but windy and cold.   Bub went up to Uncle Sam's after hay this morning.   Mrs Blaikie went over to Mrs A. Graham's with Geordie.    Mrs Graham is very sick.  Guess it is pleurisy and inflamation.  Charlie and Morrison went down to H.H. Ogilvie's auction after dinner.   The former went to visit friends on the other side of Stewiacke River.    Mr Fraser was up to prayer meeting.  It was Missionary meeting night.   Morrison and I were not there.  Andy  Graham was in and reported Mrs G. no better.

April 1, 1892 - Friday.  A fine warm day.   Bub, Morrison and John hauled water this morning from the mill pond to wash.   The grist mill started today.   Charlie got home this afternoon.  He brought Roy some alphabet blocks in a box.  Mrs B. is not home yet.   Charlie has gone over to Mrs G's tonight to see how she is.   I churned this afternoon and mixed the bread tonight.

April 2, 1892 - Saturday.  Fine.  Rained a little in the night.  Mrs B. got home this morning.  Mrs Graham is no better.  She is very sick. She has exhaustion and heart failure.  Grace came home this afternoon, but her mother did not know her.  They telegraphed to Johnnie Herbert.  Was at Lodge tonight.  Got the new pass-word.   Fos came home tonight.

April 3, 1892 - Sabbath.  A beautiful day.  Very spring-like.  Mrs Graham died about five o'clock this morning.  She did not suffer much except weakness until a short time before her death.  The family is left very lonely.  We, that is, Minnie Johnson, Christy and Libby Graham, Janie MacKay and I,  repeated some of our questions in the catechism.   There was Y.P.S.C.E. in the afternoon.

April 4, 1892 - Monday.  Fine.  A nice day.  We washed a large washing this forenoon.    Hooked a while after we got done, and then Morrison , the children and I started for the Cove and Branch, but the roads were so bad that we came back, after passing J.W. Deyarmond's.  Mrs Bessie Fulton was in a while tonight.  I enjoy her company very much, but don't get much of it.  Charles Proven was here to dinner.  Willie MacKay and Morrison shaved their beards today.   It makes quite a change in their looks.

April 5, 1892 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  Dark tonight and rather rainy.   Morrison and Charles Proven went to Riversdale this morning.  Also Johnnie Herbert Graham  who got home last night.   Alice (Mrs C.E.Read) came home today.  Also Mrs Thomas Davis, nee Sarah Graham.   We were hooking most of the day.  Also churned.  Andy was here this afternoon.

April 6, 1892 - Wednesday.  A very warm day.  Mrs Blaikie , Bub and I went to the funeral this afternoon.  Bessie Fulton, the teacher came back with me, Also Lucy Johnson.  Both stayed to dinner.  Mrs Blaikie stayed at the house and kept Marjorie's baby for her to go to the graveyard.  There was a large funeral.    The Middle Stewiacke Manse was burned on Monday night (April 4).   Mr Fraser who was there, had his horse and wagon burned.  The stable was burned too.   It is thought that the fire originated in the barn, also that it was the work of an incindenary (sic).

April 7, 1892 - Thursday.  Cold wind, but sunshine.  We ironed this forenoon and hooked some.  Johnnie Willie and Willie MacKay were here to dinner.    Johnnie Herbert and Henry were here in addition to the two former after dinner.  Some grinding came in today.  James William Deyarmond was here to tea, and is here this evening.  Baby is quite troublesome.  I think it is his teeth.

April 8, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  We were hooking all day.   Henry Graham and A.R. Higgins were here to dinner.    Alice Proven was here this afternoon and to tea.  D.M. and I took her home.

April 9, 1892 - Saturday.  Dark and a little rainy.   We got our big mat out today.  It doesn't look bad.  Also churned.  Andy was here this forenoon.  Howard and Libbie Graham are here tonight, or rather , How was, and Lib is yet.   Fos came home. 

April 10, 1892 - Sabbath.  A warm day, but dark with slight squalls.  Minnie Johnson, Christy J. Graham and I  finished repeating our catechism this forenoon.    Andy here to shave and for dinner.  There was Y.P.S.C.E. in the afternoon.  Also preaching.    D.M., Bub amd I were not there.   Dora and Lewis Fulton were up from Pembroke.

April 11, 1892 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Snowed last night.  The ground was quite white this morning, but it all melted off through the day.   Charlie went down to the Corner, over to Fisher's etc. and returned about three o'clock.  Messrs Lewis and Luther Fulton and J.MacDonald left for the United States (Also Miss Mable Crockett) today.  Was mending most of the day.

April 12, 1892 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  Mrs Blaikie went over to Mrs Charles Graham's to double yarn. She was there all day.  Charlie went up to James Johnson's after dinner.  Henry Johnson  brought twelve hundred of hay up for us today.  Johnnie Deyarmond was with him. 

April 13, 1892 - Wednesday.  Rather cold - also windy.  Morrison and I and the youngsters went down to Charles Proven's this afternoon.  Had a good visit. 

April 14, 1892 - Thursday.  pretty fine.  Wind cold.  Uncle Sam here to dinner.  He and Morrison down to the Mill House in the forenoon.   Fos went down to the corner and Blacksmith shop after dinner.  Wrote to Annie Archibald this morning.  Liss Graham came home tonight.

April 15, 1892 - Friday.  Good Friday.  No school.  Pretty fine this forenoon - squally this afternoon with snow.  We washed this forenoon and brought in the clothes this afternoon.  They were pretty well dried.  Charlie and Johnnie Willie went up to Mr Andrew Dickie's  to a mat hooking.  Quite a number of the females of Lower Burnside went too.

April 16, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine warm day.  Morrison went up to James Johnson's this morning and Mr J. came down and moved the boiler down to the mill.  He was here to dinner.  H.H. Ogilvie called this forenoon.    Mrs B. went over to Mr C. Graham's, and she and Mrs C. Graham went down to see   Mary Fulton who is sick.  Then they came here.  Aunt Annie stayed to tea.  Minnie Johnson was down this afternoon and waited for Lodge, but there is no lodge.  Baby hurt his nose tonight.  Got a letter from Edith.  She is nicely.  Also from Fred.

April 17, 1892 - Sabbath.  Fine and cool.  Lyman, Cal, Byde and Minnie Johnson, Mr and Mrs MacKay, Charlie and Foss were down to church.  Andy Graham here to dinner as usual on Sabbath. Christian Endeavour this afternoon.  Bub and I at home.  Mrs B. and I down to see Mary Fulton.  Mrs B. and Aunt Annie sat up with her tonight.  She is not very well.  Her knee is in a pretty bad state.   Just two years today since our house was burned.

April 18, 1892 - Monday.  A fine day.  Very dry for the time of year.   Mrs B. got back early this morning.    Enoch took Aunt My down this forenoon.  Christy Bell and Sarah Graham (Mrs Davis), were down this afternoon.    Charles Proven is up tonight.  He and Morrison are going over to Riversdale tomorrow.    Fos and How started down to stream-drive this morning.  They were going to work for Dickie, but they got back tonight.  Could not get work.  Washed Roy and Alden all over tonight.  Roy almost got scalded.

April 19, 1892 - Tuesday.  Fine.  A chilly wind.  Aunt Peggy prophesies forty days of drought, as Good Friday was droughty.  Morrison and Charles Proven went to Riversdale this morning.  Morrison went to Truro.  They got back about six o;clock.  Mrs B. was down to Charles Proven's this afternoon.  Mary Fulton is about the same as she was.  James A. Fulton came home this forenoon.  Wrote to Edith.   Alex MacKay was here collecting for Mr Fraser's horse today. I was baking and sewing most of the afternoon.

April 20, 1892 - Wednesday.  Fine.  Quite warm.  Put in a small mat this forenoon.   Mrs Blaikie and Roy went up to see Mrs Crockett this afternoon.  Morrison went to the Corner toget the horse shod.  He got stuff for Roy, a coat, and Mrs B. - aprons.   Minnie Johnson and Christy Graham were here this afternoon for tea.  Cal was here afterwards.

April 21, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine.  The stream-drivers had the lake out and were stream-driving the logs on the Jack Brook this afternoon.  We were hooking all day.

April 22, 1892 - Friday.  Dark.  Rainy toward night.  We went out to the Cove this morning, leaving Roy at home.  Got there about half past ten.  They were all well.  Nettie was out to Mr Fulton's.    Hyde was there, also Mrs H. Kaulback.  Papa went away a fortnight ago.  We went out to Uncle Will's at night.  Uncle Will is bad with a sore back.

April 23, 1892 - Saturday.  Wet.  Rainy but the rain was not heavy.   We stayed at Uncle Will's until after dinner and then came home - by Otterbrook. We got a pair of boots for Roy and one for Ida. And a pair of slippers for Mrs B. and also for me.    Aunt Jessie Cook has lost her little Florence.  She died November 4, 1891 with typhoid fever.   Roy and Alden both have the cold.  We set two hens today.  Don't think I'll go to Lodge tonight.

April 24, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Cool at night.   Clarence Johnson stayed all night last night and until service in the afternoon today.   There was Y.S.C.E. in the afternoon, also service..  Mr and Mrs Fraser were both up.  Mrs A. MacKay and Miss Bessie Fulton went down to sit up with Mary Fulton tonight.  Trueman Fulton is better.

April 25, 1892 - Monday.  Fine, but wind rather cold.  Charlie and Cal went down to the corner this morning.  Charlie went up with Cal when they came back and over with Johnnie Willie Graham tonight.   Fos, Bub and Morrison were working in the mill, etc.  We put our little mat out this afternoon.  Poor weather for the stream-drivers.  The water is so low.

April 26, 1892 - Tuesday.  Fine.  Wind warmer.  Johnnie Willie and Christy Graham started to the States this morning.  Also Charlie Grant, Lyman and Cal.  Mrs B. went over to Circle at Mrs C. Graham's this afternoon.  Also Charlie.  Was working at a coat for Roy.  Also baking amd churning.  Baby troublesome.  Mary Fulton better.  Guess she is improving.  Bessie Deyarmond is poorly with her knee and cholera.

April 27, 1892 - Wednesday.  Cold and windy, but sunshine.  Mrs Andrew Dickie went up and got one of John A. Graham's boys.  Uncle Sam collecting the school money, but guess he did not get along very successfully.

April 28, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine.  A warm day.  Examination Day at school.  Quite a few there.  Mr and Mrs James Johnson, Mr Samuel Johnson, Mrs C. Graham,  Mrs A. MacKay, Mr P.S. Hamilton, Misses C.B. Graham, Minnie Johnson, J. MacKay,  Lena Crockett, Dora Fulton, Wilbert and Walter Fulton, Miss Ruby E. Graham, D.M., Roy and Self.  O yes, Mr P.W. Graham and C.E. Graham and son, and J.E. Deyarmond.       Aunt Annie, Minnie, and Duncan stopped for dinner.  Eva is cleaning the school house.  Jessie and Ester Brown and Sydney Smith of Otterbrok  are up.  Prayer meeting tonight.

April 29, 1892 - Friday.  Dark all day.  Raining in the afternoon and toward night.  We were knitting allday.  It was dull.  The geese have not got one gosling.  They are down setting.

April 30, 1892 - Saturday.  Dark with a few showers - both rain and snow.  Robert and James Graham, and J.W. Deyarmond here to dinner.  Stream-driving this afternoon.  Charlie and Fos were on the drive.  None of the men got any supper and they were knocked off about six-thirty.  Knitting, washing and churning this afternoon.  The Misses Brown and Sydney Smith went home this afternoon.  Set another hen today.

May 1, 1892 - Sabbath.  Rather wintry.  Ground covered with snow this morning, but the sun thawed it off.  Wind blew cold allday.  Sabbath School began today.  D.M., Roy and I there.  Johnnie Herbert Graham here to tea.  Andy Graham here to dinner as usual, but he did not get a shave here, and so went up and got one at Bill's or Aunt My's.

May 2, 1892 - Monday.  Ground covered with snow again this morning, but the weather was not so cold as yeaterday.  Morrison intended going to Cross Roads, but didn't.  J.H. and P.W. Graham brought over two loads of shingle stuff about tea time.  We couldn't wash as it was so cold.  Ashmore Brown had to take his grist home today as it could not be ground on account of the dam being out of repair for F.J. Logan.

May 3, 1892 - Tuesday.  Rather wet.  Drizzly most of the afternoon.  I went down to Alice Proven's this morning and hooked for her all day.  Had a very pleasant day.  Morrison and Roy went down to Cross Roads in the forenoon - to get groceries.    Liss and Lib Graham are here this evening.  Liss made a mock man and put it in Charlie's bed.

May 4, 1892 - Wednesday.  Still dark and drizzly.  Mrs B. over to Mrs Deyarmond's and Johnnie Herbert's.  Charlie and Fos went down along.   Morrison went over to Turner's this afternoon.  Alex MacKay was down and paid Bub six dollars and a half cash.  Bub gave him one dollar and fifty cents subscription for Mr Fraser's horse. 

May 5, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine but cold winds.  Did not do much today.  Mother was over to see Aunt Mary today.  She has been quite poorly, but  is some better this afternoon. Was up to Adam Wright's this forenoon.  Guess I will leave Mira to finish up as I am not good at writing journals.  Yours truly, D.M. Blaikie

Morrison home from Prayer meeting.  Mrs B. and I both there.  I finished a pair of socks for D.M. and we washed this forenoon.  Bessie Deyarmond, and Abner Smith left G. Deyarmond's last night.

May 6, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  Wind cold.  Charlie over to J.W. Graham's this morning after the harrow.  They were sawing shingles all day.  Mrs S. and Mrs J.W. Deyarmond  intineded coming up today but they didn't.  Liss went to Eastville this afternoon.  How and Jane went with her.  Mr W. Dunlap was up this afternoon.   He went further up the settlement.  We got a dipper from him.

May 7, 1892 - Saturday.

Bessie Deyarmond and Abner Smith married May 7, 1892.  dark and squally day.  Cold.  Alice Proven here to dinner.  After dinner she and Mrs Blaikie went up to Mr Crockett's.  They stayed there to tea.  Bub was over to J.H. Graham's this afternoon.   J.T. Hamilton here to tea.   Andy Graham got home from Truro.

May 8, 1892 - Sabbath.  Cold and windy.  Rainy too.  Preaching and Sabbath School in the afternoon. Morrison stayed at home.

May 9, 1892 - Monday.  Cold and chilly.  Also windy.  Went down to Alice Proven's this morning and helped her get her mat out.  Mr and Mrs George Deyarmond called tonight.   They had been up to James Johnson's.    The folks did not go to USA today - Wood, How, etc.

May 10, 1892 - Tuesday.  Fine but rather windy.  Mrs Samuel, and Mrs J.W. Deyarmond and Ethel and Nettie were here to dinner and tea.  Morrison was down to the Village, Otterbrook, etc.  Charles Graham was here a little while.  Howard, John Herbert and Wood Graham started for the States this morning.

May 11, 1892 - Wednesday.  Fine and warm.  Cloudy tonight.  We cleaned upstairs today.  Fos went to Truro this afternoon. Morrison and Roy set him up a piece and went in to the old mill site.  Adam Wright here to tea.  He brought 400 pounds of hay down for us.  We got it from him.  Had a mess of trout for tea.  Bill and Jack Graham came up from George Fulton's, where they have been working, this afternoon.  Bill has got a hard looking head.  He fell out of a wagon.  The horse was running off, I guess.

May 12, 1892 - Thursday.  Wet and rainy.    I went over to C. Graham's and hooked for them today.  Ida is not very well.  No prayer meeting.  Morrison was down to Creight's and got a barrell of flour.  Fos got home from Truro.  Mrs Guild is better.

May 13, 1892 - Friday.  Warmer and fine.  We washed some this forenoon.  Mrs Blaikie was over to Aunt Becky's this afternoon.  I cut out Roy's shirts.  Sewed on them a little and knit a little.   Uncle James and Aunt Esther were here a little while tonight.   R.P. Fulton was up talking about that place.  Adam Wright is here getting flour now.  Marjorie brought her baby to Turner's tonight.  Aunt Becky is very poorly.  She is about done.   Uncle C. Graham's folks have taken Marjorie's baby.  It went there tonight.

May 14, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Sewed this forenoon.  We, Morrison, Roy and I , went up to Mr J. Johnson's in the afternoon.  Byde came home.   The mill caught fire after dinner and we had a little excitement getting it out.  Bill and Jack Graham, who got hurt by getting thrown out of a wagon by George Fulton's horse, are getting better.  Bill was down to the Doctor today.

May 15, 1892 - Sabbath.  Fine.  A nice day.  Charlie and Bub went to church in the forenoon.  Morrison and Mrs B. went to Sabbath School in the afternoon.

May 16, 1892 - Monday.  Wet.  Drizzly tonight.  Fos went to work with John Gourley today.    J. Gourley came up after him and was here to dinner.  He is sawing shingles in Middle Stewiacke.  Herb Higgins here to dinner.  Henry Graham was here to tea.  Made one of Roy's shirts today.   It was too wet to clean house or wash.  We have  four chickens and a sick one , out of 13 eggs.

May 17, 1892 - Tuesday.  Rather dark this morning, but turned out to be a fine day.  Morrison went down to the Corner this morning, and Mrs Blaikie went down to Higgins' to visit.  Bub went after her tonight.  Uncle Sam was to the mill with a grist this forenoon.  He was here to dinner.  Also James W. Deyarmond.   Mr and Mrs James Johnson were here to tea.  They had been down to the corner.  Charles Proven went back to Riversdale this forenoon. 

May 18, 1892 - Wednesday.  Showery.  We cleaned the room, kitchen, and Mrs B's bedroom today.  They sowed the oats today. Aunt Anne and Ruby were up hooking for Eva this afternoon.

May 19, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine this forenoon except showers, dark and showery all the afternoon.  We finished up housecleaning this forenoon.  Cleaned the entry and pantry.  We just knit this afternoon.  The men were farming.  Mr Fraser is up tonight. He was up along this afternoon.  Had a letter from Annie Archibald tonight.

May 20, 1892 - Friday.  A dark day.  A few showers.  Morrison and I went down to the Fulton place and had a look round this forenoon.  Morrison went to the Corner about four o'clock and got back about seven.   Mrs Crockett was in a short time, but went down to Mrs Proven's, Mrs Graham's etc.

May 21, 1892 - Saturday.  Pretty fine.  Mrs Blaikie went over to Mrs George Deyarmond's this morning.  They planted the garden seeds this afternoon.    Also fenced the mill yard.  Mrs Crockett came back with Mrs Blaikie. She, Mrs Crockett, had been over to Mrs B. Graham's to see her.

May 22, 1892 - Sabbath.  Wet.  Very rainy in the afternoon.  Morrison stayed home today.  There was Sabbath School at two o'clock and preaching at three.  Sabbath School was small.  Mr Fraser preached from Proverbs IV , 15, 18 verses.  A very nice discourse.  Mrs C.E. Graham left her hat here as the weather was so wet.  Another hen hatched today.  She has five chickens.

May 23, 1892 - Monday.  Wet.  Dark all day.  Charles Graham and J. Logan stream-driving.  Fult had quite a crowd.  Charlie Blaikie working with C. Graham.  Hugh Johnson cooking for F.J.Logan.  I was just knitting today.  Washed Roy and Alden tonight.  They had a great time in the water.

May 24, 1892 - Tuesday.  Dark this morning, but turned to a fine day.  The Queen's birthday - no school.  The stream-drivers were on the move early this morning.  The water was rather scarce.  We cut mat-rags this forenoon, and put in a mat in the afternoon.  H.H. Miller here to tea.

May 25, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  F.J. Logan worked at stream-driving until a while after dinner, but the water was very low.  D.M., Roy and I  went down to J. Kennedy's to tea.  We had a very pleasant drive and visit.  B.F. Davidson dined with us today.

May 26, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine.  A shower last night.  Prayer Meeting night.  We were hooking all day.  D.M. and I not at Prayer Meeting.  Had a letter form Edith tonight.  Rebecca Graham called to see us tonight, or rather this afternoon, or more particular, this morning. 

May 27, 1892 - Friday.  Rainy this forenoon.  Fine after dinner.  Bub and Charlie out to Deyarmond's Lake, fishing.  They got quite a catch,  but the day was not very favorable.  Morrison was making a mat-hook in the afternoon.  Martha and Nellie Johnson went down with the teacher to Pembroke.

May 28, 1892 - Saturday.  Very heavy rain this forenoon, but a fine afternoon.  The stream-drivers were busy.  Melissa Graham went to Trafalgar to teach school.  Libbie Graham was over a short time this afternoon.  We got our mat out before dinner.  I made Alden a pinafore this afternoon.  Charley was on the Drive with his uncle, C. Graham.   Morrison was fixing up the desks and seats at the school some of the time.   Wrote to Edith.  Morrison wrote to Andrew Graham, Durham.

May 29, 1892 - Sabbath.  A beautifully fine day.  Uncle Sam and Aunt Sarah Johnson down to church.  Fos, and Johnnie Gourley came up this forenoon and stayed until after tea, after which they went via the Corner to Prayer meeting at Upper Stewiacke Village.  Uncle Sam stayed here to dinner and went to Sabbath School.  Mr and Mrs Abner Smith came up to J.W. Deyarmond's and down to her father's to stay all night.

May 30, 1892 - Monday.  Dark.  A little showery.  Bub and D.M. went down to the Village, Corner, and Pembroke and back for late dinner.  We washed a tremendous washing this forenoon, and cut mat-rags this afternoon.  Am tired tonight.  Everett Deyarmond got the loan of our wagon to go to Riversdale this morning.  He was going to see C. Proven who is working there.  Everett returned about the middle of the afternoon or thereabouts.

May 31, 1892 - Tuesday.  Rather dark.  Appears finer tonight.  We put in a mat this morning.  We are just making it in squares.  It is made of every kind of rags.  The stream-drivers were working up the brook until about ten this forenoon, and then F.J. Logan ordered them down to where he was working.  Libbie Graham was in this afternoon a while.

June 1, 1892- Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Very warm.  Bub and Morrison were cutting poles and fencing the Mill Place today.  They did not get done.  We were hooking at the mat.  Charlie didn't come home last night.  Baby is rather troublesome.  Alice Proven and Mrs Crockett got our wagon to go down to the Village today.

June 2, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine and hot.  80's in the shade.  Thunder toward night.  Bub and Morrison were down at the Fulton Place fencing.    Howard Higgins was working with them. Roy went down after dinner, too.  F.J. Logan got his logs into the river about nine o'clock tonight. Charlie Blaikie on the drive.  Mr and Mrs Blaikie went up to Mr MacKay's this afternoon.  Lib over this morning.  Was hooking and sewing.  Also churning.

June 3, 1892 - Friday.  Dark this morning, but fine this afternoon.   Bub and Mrs Blaikie went down to the Village, and up to John Kennedy's,  Janet Miller's etc., and home tonight.  I got the mat out this afternoon.   Aunt Anne over tonight a while.  Also Uncle Charlie, Den and Duncan.  Mrs B. took the hens down.  Got table cloths, shirt stuff etc.   Making emptyings tonight.

June 4, 1892 - Saturday.  Fine, but windy and chilly.   Mr Crockett working here until half-past two or thereabouts, putting in, or rather helping them put in the potatoes.  School today.  Minnie Johnson called tonight.  She, Edith (Mrs MacCallum) and Byde came in from the woods this afternoon.  Morrison is over to mr C. Graham's tonight.  Charlie down to C. McMullin's.  Made a shirt for Ida this afternoon.

     "Sadly the past comes back to me,

       The years so long gone by.

       When I was a little girl at school

       No child was so gay as I

       Now past and gone are my youthful days"

June 5, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine warm day.  Preaching in the afternoon.  Mrs B. at home.  We got Alden baptized.  Mr and Mrs Samuel Deyarmond got their baby baptized too.  It was called Nettie Blanche.  Some of the people were in from the woods.  Among them, Alonzo MacCallum, M.E. Johnson, Ed Brown,etc. 

June 6, 1892 - Monday.  Dark this morning.  but finer in the afternoon.  Charlie went out to H. Johnson's.  Bub, Morrison and Roy went over to Mr Higgins' to help Herb in with his potatoes.  Bub stayed tonight.   Mrs B. and Ida went over to C.R. Graham's and G. Deyarmond's.  Miss Eunice Deyarmond and little Roy Eaton  came home tonight.  Mrs A. Smith (Bessie) was home too.  Charles Proven came home from Riversdale this afternoon.

June 7, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  A cold wind blowing.  We washed this forenoon, and washed the floor and blacked the stove and churned in the afternoon.   Mottison went down to the Mill House this morning, and home in the afternoon.  Bub came home after tea.  Charlie came in from Johnson's, he intends going back to work.

June 8, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  We put in a mat this forenoon.  Charlie went down to C.McMullin's to get a new pair of shoes this afternoon.

June 9, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day, but rather windy.  Mrs B. began making soap.  It don't come very good.   Bub and Morrison down to the other place in the afternoon.  They planted beans this forenoon.  Was hooking some.  Weaned baby tonight.  He was not much trouble.   Charlie went to Johnson's to work.

June 10, 1892 - Friday.  Fine and warm.  Mrs B. finished making soap.  It is pretty good.  Was hooking all day.  Fos came home from Middle Stewiacke.  Morrison and I had a walk after the colt tonight.  Roy was down to the Mill place all the afternoon.  Mrs B. making emptyings tonight.

June 11, 1892 - Saturday.  Pretty fine.  A slight shower or two.    D.M., Roy and I went out to the Cove.  Stayed to dinner with Mamma, and then went over to South Branch and got tea with Aunt Viney.  Then came home via the Corner.   We didn't see Janie and Nettie.  They were at school.  Mrs B. was baking.

June 12, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  No service except Elder's Service in either Springside or Burnside.  Mr Fraser away to General Assembly.  Mrs B. and I were up to Sabbath School.  Mrs B. taught the little girl's class.

June 13, 1892 - Monday.  Rather dark.  A shower this afternoon.   Mrs G. Deyarmond, Miss Eunice, and Master Robbie Deyarmond and master Roy Eaton came over this afternoon.  Eunice and Roy stayed to tea, and Mrs Blaikie took them over home.  Bub, Fos and Morison went down to the Mill House this afternoon.  We got our mat out this forenoon.

June 14, 1892 - Tuesday.  Quite a thunder storm last night.  A very hot day, but the heat was somewhat modified by a cool breeze.  Morrison was down to the Village and got two barrels of flour, half a barrel of herring, tea, matches, etc.  Also a cwt. of hay from F. Rutherford.  Bub was making a cucumber bed.  I was patching all day.  Aunt Ann and Uncle Charlie and Duncan were over tonight.

June 15, 1892- Wednesday.  Another thunder storm last night.  It lasted from about nine o'clock until near twelve.  Rather drizzly today.  We, Morrison, Fos, Bub, Roy and I, moved some things down to the MillHouse and began cleaning it.  It is very dirty.  Cleaned the two bedrooms and the first room.  Went home about seven o'clock.

June 16, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day.  We moved down to the Mill House to stay today.  All bur Mr and Mrs Blaikie.  Bub was moving stuff all day.  I cleaned the pantry and kitchen..  They were more than dirty.  Fos driving for F.J. Logan.

June 17, 1892 - Friday.  A shower this morning, and showery tonight.  Fine through the day.  Mrs B. and Ida were down this afternoon. Didn't clean any today.  Blacked the stove.

June 18, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.  A nice cool breeze.   J.W. Deyarmond saw a bear on the face of Charles Proven's hill and Ira Higgins saw it, or another, up by the old barn.  Mr Blaikie was down today.   We got a letter from Edith and Fred.   Roy and I were up to C. Proven's tonight. Alice gave me a piece of butter and a mess of potatoes.

June 19, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day, but not sunshine.  We got up somewhere between seven and eight o'clock.  Bub and Fos went home for their dinner.  Roy and I went up after dinner.  Left Roy with Mrs Blaikie and went to preaching.   Rev John A. Logan preached.  We got back about five.   Bub did not come until after tea.  He stayed to bring down the milk.   Mrs Higgins and Herb were in a while as they went home.

June 20, 1892 - Monday.  A rainy day.  Herb Higgins down a while.  They took the old stones out of the grist mill. Mr and Mrs J.W. Deyarmond had another daughter born today. - in the forenoon.

June 21, 1892 - Tuesday.  Fine all day, but rainy tonight.  Morrison was down along today.  He got three bushels of potatoes at Mr  David  Johnson's. Also got me a sunhat.   Bub and I were up home tonight.  Brought down sundries.  J.W. Deyarmond, Everett Deyarmond,and Herb Higgins here tonight.

June 22, 1892 - Wednesday.  Showery all the afternoon.  Mrs Blaikie down a while this afternoon.   She had a blouse for Roy.

June 23, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day.  They thought they'd stream-drive this morning, but the lake had no water in it, so Fos went out to H. Johnson's mill.  I didn't do much of anything today.  We sent a letter to Ede and Fred and got one from Melissa Graham tonight. Mr C. Graham was here a little while.

June 24, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  Washed the colored clothes today.  Mrs Higgins and Amy here to dinner.  James Graham brought the carriage and was here to tea.  Mrs Blaikie and Ruby Graham called after tea.

June 25, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day as usual.   Uncle John came this morning.  He had been up to the other place all night.  Fos, Bub, Roy and Alden went home after dinner.  D.M. and I went down to church. (Sacrament Saturday)  Uncle John kept house.  Charlie was in from Johnson's.  He is going to drive the engine on the tram road. Bub and I brought the youngsters down at night.  I drove up after coming from the church.

June 26, 1892 - Sabbath.  Mrs B. and Bub went to church.  Also Uncle John.

June 27, 1892 - Monday.  Fine.  D.M. and Bub and Fos was up to the old place.  Finished sawing shingles and brought down the engine.  Got some things from a peddler that came along.  Was all alone with the children to dinner, but D.M. came home about two o'clock.  Feel kind of sickish today.

June 28, 1892 - Dark this forenoon, rainy this afternoon.   D.M. down to Mr R. Gammell's - framing.  Bub and Fos both home this forenoon.   Roy and I went to pick strawberries, but didn't get any worthwhile.  Bub kept Alden.  After dinner Bub and Howard Higgins went fishing. Fos went "over along".  Bub and Howard got back about four.  Mr and Mrs P.S. Hamilton were presented with a daughter today.

June 29, 1892 - Wednesday.  Fine.  Morrison went down to Mr R. Gammell's, framing this afternoon.  We called at the Corner and got some room paper for this room.   Mrs Alonzo MacCallum presented her husband with a daughter today.  She is at her father's. Bub up to Mr Higgins' all night.

June 30, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day.  They were setting up the engine today.  Mr H.L. Dunlap was round getting signers for apple trees.  We took two - the Yellow Transpatent and the Wolfe River.  Price of each was 75 cents.  The first is an early apple, and the latter, a winter one.  Mrs Blaikie was down a while tonight.   Fos and Bub up to Y.S.C.E.   Mr Fraser was up tonight.

July 1, 1892 - Friday.  Fine and hot this forenoon.  Showery the latter part of the afternoon and tonight.   Was tearing the old paper off this forenoon , and washing this afternoon.   Alice Proven was here a little while this afternoon.  Also Willie MacKay.  Fos went home tonight.

July 2, 1892 - Saturday.  Rainy this forenoon.  Pretty fine afternoon.  They all went up home this morning.  D.M. and James William came down before dinner.  J.W. stopped for his dinner.  Howard Higgins was bunching shingles in the afternoon up at home.  Fos and I papered a while after dinner.

July 3, 1892 - Sabbath.  Fine this mornong, but a heavy rain in the afternoon and tonight.  Mrs B. down this morning and took Roy up with her.  Morrison went up to Preaching in the afternoon, and took Roy to preaching and brought him home. Fos went too.  J.W. Deyarmond called here today himself when he was coming home.  It was raining very heavily.

July 4, 1892 - Monday.  Rainy this morning, but fine this afternoon.  Little Andy Graham here a while this forenoon.  Fos and Bub went up home this morning, and they and Willie MacKay came down with the boiler before dinner.  Mr Crockett was here to dinner too.   Willie went two trips.  Mrs Blaikie was here after dinner.  Went back with Willie.  Ira Higgins was down after a bottle of molasses.  Ruby  E. Graham here to tea.  She was collecting for missions.  Fos was down to the Corner and got some more room paper, factory shirt stuff etc.

July 5, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  I took Alden up home this morning and left him with grandma for all night.  They got the engine started before dinner.   Fos and I finished papering this afternoon.  Herb Higgins, Davie Graham, and Bertie Deyarmond here a while.   Baked today.  Had six loaves.

July 6, 1892 - Wednesday.  Finer and hot.  They were logging this forenoon and stream-driving this afternoon.  Bub went out and let the lake out.  I was picking berries all the spare time I had.  D.M. and I went up after Alden tonight.   Howard and Christy J. Graham came home from USA.

July 7, 1892 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Fos and Willie MacKay went to the tea meeting in Middle Stewiacke  Willie lost his watch.  We had a letter from Ede and Fred tonight.   Dryden Power and C.E. Graham made us calls this afternoon.

July 8, 1892- Friday.  Fine and hot.  Bub and Morrison up home for dinner.   Uncle Jim here to dinner.  Willie stayed all night.  He found his watch this afternoon - just under the poplar tree.  Mrs Blaikie was down after dinner and cut out Morrison's shirts.  Took one home to make.   Charlie came in today.

July 9, 1892 - Saturday.  Fine and very warm as usual.  Was baking and that made it hotter.  Sewed a little at Morrison's shirt. D.M. and I went up to Uncle Charlie's a little while tonight.   Ellie Proven called while we were away, and Eunice and Emma Deyarmond were here when we got back.   Charlie and Herb Higgins went down along this afternoon.

July 10, 1892 - Sabbath.  Dark and rainy.  No one went to Sabbath School from here.   Charlie had been up at Mr Higgins' all night, and he and Howard came down this forenoon.   Read "Gilbert Gresham's Story" by George E. Sargent, aloud.  Bub was up home a little while tonight.

July 11, 1892 - Monday.  A fine day.  I washed, and washed floors this afternoon.  Jimmie Graham here a while , chopping - from about half past two , ot three, until five o'clock.  Morrison down to F.J. Logan's.  He got 35 pounds of figs at a bargain.

July 12, 1892 - Tuesday.  Awful hot.  A heavy shower - thunder.  They were sawing and getting logs.   I went up home tonight and came back with Mr and Mrs Homer Eaton.  Emma and Eunice Deyarmond and Mr George, were in today.   They were picking berries.

July 13, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Not so hot as yesterday.   S. Creelman and E. Logan were after lumber this forenoon.   R. Graham got the loan of the "cart" to go over to Riversdale.   R.P. Fulton here tonight and took away the two old chairs which were here.  Mrs Blaikie was down along today - Village etc.  Bub up home all night last night.

July 14, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine in the forenoon but a thunder storm this afternoon.  Rain quite heavy.  Not well today.  Could not get dinner.   Bub went up and brought Mrs Blaikie down.  She stayed until nght and then he took her up and went to Y.S.C.E. and stayed home all night.  Eunice and Emma Deyarmond went out to pick strawberries again today, and as usual, got wet.

July 15, 1892  - Friday.  A fine day.  Some thunder.   Mrs B. and Bub got down early.  D.M. and Fos got breakfast.   Felt a lot better today.  Guess my attack is over for this time. Mrs B. washed some and put the clothes out.   Bub took her home.   Johnnie Deyarmond was here this afternoon, all the afternoon. Alice Proven was in too.  She had been up seeing May Fulton.

July 16, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.   They were sawing today.  Mr George Johnson, (the other side of the river)  - was here this forenoon, getting lumber.  Fos and Herbert Higgins were down to the village this afternoon.  Herb was to see the Doctor.  He has bronchitis and a weak lung.   Fos got some pork from Mr R. Gammell.  He stayed up with Herb all night.

July 17, 1892 - Sabbath.  Still fine.  Fos and Bub up to preaching.   Kenny Graham was here a while and went with them.   Mrs H. was in a few minutes after service.  Mr A. Gunn is to be inducted in the Village this week.

July 18, 1892 - Monday.  Fine but not so hot.  A nice breeze.  Fos, D.M. and Roy up home this forenoon.  Fos and Morrison were ploughing the potatoes.  Bub, Alden and I alone to dinner. Bub chopping logs.  Morrison has gone down to Mr D. Creelman's for a jack screw.   Finished D.M.'s shirt today;  made emptyings tonight.  Mr W.M. Geddes over to Burnside.

July 19, 1892 - Tuesday.  Fine as usual.  Baked today, also ironed.  They did not saw any today.  Mrs B. down a little while tonight.  Alden not well:  has a bad cold, and is cutting teeth too.  We bathed the children tonight.

July 20, 1892 - Wednesday. Showery and rather cooler than common.  Baby and I went up home this forenoon.  Met W.M. Geddes and Emma Deyarmond.  They had been calling at home.  Mr G. seems very well now. Had a very pleasant day.  Ida and I went and picked some berries after dinner.  We preserved some too.  D.M. and Roy came up after tea, and I went home.   Emma D. and Mr G. were down at the Mill House, but I missed seeing them.  We got a sewing machine from H.H. Ogilvie today.

July 21, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine again.  Deacon Deyarmond here helping them fix up the grist mill.  He was just here half a day.  Alice Proven was here helping me with my dress.  Annie May Crockett here too.  Also had a call from Dryde Power.

July 22, 1892 - Friday.  A nice day.  Not so hot, but fine.  They were haying a little today.  Got in two sled-loads.  Robert Graham here to dinner.  We salted the meat this morning.  

July 23, 1892 - Saturday.  Showery.  Thunder showers. Fine this afternoon.  Washed this forenoon.  Did not get the clothes out until after dinner. Washed a quilt.  Robert Graham here to dinner.  He was starting in his logs.  Mrs Blaikie, R.P. and E.F. Fulton here this afternoon.  Charlie came home and down here.  The crank of Johnson's engine is broken.  Fos, and Herb Higgins were down to the Village, C.F.McMullin's etc.  A.R. Higgins came home from his tour at the shore.  Wrote to Papa today.

July 24, 1892 - Sabbath.  Fine day.  Herbert Higgins and his father were down a while this forenoon.  Fos went up home. Roy and D.M. went to Sabbath School and Fos came home after dinner.

July 25, 1892 - Monday.  Dark this morning, but fine this afternoon.  C.D. Creelman round looking for his horse this morning.  Bub mowing hay on R.S.D's hill. They raked and got it in tonight.  Baby, Roy and I went up to see Mrs Higgins tonight. Had a nice call.  Mixed the bread after we came back.  Mrs Rebecca Graham died today.   She had been sick a good while. 

July 26, 1892 - Tuesday.  Showers last night, but fine and very hot today.  They were logging and I was baking this forenoon.  In the afternoon, they went to the funeral and I stayed at home.  Liss Graham here to tea.  She is home for holidays.  Mrs Higgins called tonight.  She had Amy with her.

July 27, 1892 - Wednesday.  Fine and warm.  They were sawing this forenoon - for R.D. Power.  He was here after his lumber, and stopped for dinner.  The old grist mill caught fire, but they got it out.  Emma J. Deyarmond called to say good-bye before going away.  Washed the kitchen this forenoon.   D.M. and Roy were down to F.J. Logan's, C.C. Cox's etc.   Got some fresh beef from Edson Cox.

July 28, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine and not quite so hot. Mrs Blaikie and Ida down this morning.  They  were mowing and raking all day.  Fos and Bub have gone up home tonight for they are going to get the hay there.  Had a letter from Ede and Fred today.

July 29, 1892 - Friday.  Fine but appearance of rain.  Charlie and Byde were here this forenoon.  They went up to Mr Higgins' for dinner, then came back, and Byde went home..  Charlie stayed all night.   He and Morrison put in the hay around here.  They put it in with the wheel-barrow, as they couldn't find the horse.

July 30, 1892 - Saturday.  Showery this forenoon, but it cleared off this afternoon and is fine tonight.  We allowed to go up home to put the hay in up there, but as it was rainy, we didn't.  Fos came down this forenoon, and Bub after dinner.  Herb Higgins was here to dinner.  Mr Higgins was down a little while after dinner.   Herb and Charlie went down along this afternoon.  Morrison is up to Charles Proven's after buttermilk.  Bub and Roy are outdoors talking, and Bub is getting the Sabbath Day's supply of wood.  Wrote to Ede today.

July 31, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Not so very warm as common.  Fos up home all night.  Charlie came here about nine last night, but went home too.  Johnnie Rutherford's sister was shot on the jaw bone  by some persn or persons who had entered their store by the window after dark.  He and his sister were returning from Lodge on Friday night, and as they drove past the store, drove up to it, and this was what followed.  It is not known who it was.   Mr Higgins, Ernie, James W., and Robbie Deyarmond called on their way to preaching.  Charlie and Herb were down to church.  D.M. and I took the children up and Mrs Blaikie kept them while we were at preaching.  Mr and Mrs Homer Eaton, and Mrs George Deyarmond called at Mrs B's after church.  Bub, D.M., children and I stayed for tea.  Fos came down.

August 1, 1892 - Monday.  Dark this morning, but cleared off.  They all went up home to put in the hay this morning. Was here alone with Roy and Alden all day.  It was a lonesome day.  Made emptyings tonight.  Ruby Graham called in the evening.

August 2, 1892 - Tuesday.  Dark, drizzly and showery almost all the afternoon.  Bub went up to Mr Higgins' to help hay,but it was not good hay weather.  Morrison went down to the Village and got back about half past twelve.  Grandma was down a while this morning and helped me get a ham to smoking.  Charles Proven here a little while this afternoon.  Herb Higgins here to tea.  He was putting a handle in his pick, etc.

August 3, 1892 - Wednesday.  Drizzly this forenoon , but finer after dinner.  Mrs Blaikie down for dinner.  She was doing some sewing.  Went home about three.  Alfred and Martin Johnson here to dinner.  Mr Higgins down a while this afternoon.  Morrison was over to James Graham's a little while.

August 4, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Very hot.  Washed this forenoon, and scrubbed floors - the pantry and kitchen - in the afternoon.  They were logging this afternoon.  Mr James Hamilton was here bringing a smutting (?) machine for them.  Fos up home, is back now.   No prayer meeting. Four Italians caught in Moncton - probably yesterday - They were entering, or had entered, a house:  One of them shot a policeman.  They are now lodged in jail.  The general opinion is that they were the parties who entered J. Rutherford's store and shot at his sister.  Such is the version we have got of the affair.

August 5,1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  Good hay day.  Fos and Bub up at Mr Higgins' mowing.  D.M. in the woods a while and went down to the Corner and got a barrel of flour, etc.  He and Roy went up to C. Proven's after buttermilk after tea.

August 6, 1892 - Saturday.  Fine.  My twenty-second birthday.  They were logging today.  Mrs John Kennedy was up to Mrs B's picking berries.  Mrs B. sent us down a pitcher of raspberries with her.  Bub is up home now.  Fos off on a stroll. 

August 7, 1892 - Sabbath.  Fine, rather breezy.  Alden is a year old today.  He was walking over a month ago.  Fos was up to the other place all night last night.  Morrison is not very well today.  Howard Graham called this forenoon, also Herb Higgins.  None of us were at Sabbath School.

August 8, 1892 - Monday.  A nice day.  Mrs Blaikie came down this morning.  Lena Crockett called and we had quite a company to dinner - Mr and Mrs Homer F. Eaton, and baby May; Mrs Abner Smith, and Miss Eunice Deyarmond.  They made us a nice visit.  Went away about half past three.  Bessie went up along.  The rest to C. Proven's to tea.  H. Higgins and Fos to Otterbrook.

August 9, 1892 - Tuesday.  Cooler.  Looks like rain.  They were sawing today.  Fos stayed with Herb all night.  Mrs B. and Ida were down a little while this afternoon. They brought Roy his pie, and also a half gallon of raspberries.   Was baking today.  F.J. Logan took away his bed.  Charles Proven here tonight.Fos home at five minutes to nine.

August 10, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day and very hot.  They were sawing this forenoon.  I did the work and finished my pillow-cases.  H.H. Ogilvie called.  Mrs Abner, and Miss Ida Smith went to pick berries up at Mr Higgins'.   After dinner I went up to the other place and left Alden with Mrs Blaikie and Roy and I picked berries a little while.   Mrs J. Bethel and Mrs Lawrence Young and Ida were out picking before we went.  Came home about seven o'clock.

August 11, 1892 - Thursday.  Dark this forenoon but no rain.  Mrs Blaikie came down this morning and kept the children for me, also got dinner, and I went down to the Corner, or rather,  over to J.F. Logan's store and home by the Springside Church.  Got some dinner plates, bowls, etc.  The men-folk were boarding in the mill today.

August 12, 1892 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  Looks like rain.   Washed this forenoon but did not get done until after dinner.  Mr Higgins was working here today.  Fos went over along tonight.

August 13, 1892 - Saturday.  Showery.  Pretty rainy tonight.  Thunder showers.   Mr Higgins was working here this forenoon, but went home after dinner.  Charlie came down and they went to the Corner.  Morrison, Roy, Alden and I were over to Mr G. Deyarmond's after tea to see the Yankees before they return to the US.  We heard that Mr Blaikie was sick, and so we came  down the hill with Roy and Alden;  it was queer travelling.  Bub went back and took the horse home.  Fos went to Otterbrook and is not back.  He was at Smithfield.

August 14, 1892 - Sabbath.  Dark, rather.  Some heavy showers.  Bub came back a little before eleven this forenoon.  D.M., the children and I went up home to dinner.  Fos arrived about eight or nine this morning.  Mr Blaikie was better.   Mrs Blaikie kept Roy and Alden for Morrison and I to go to church.  Mr Fraser preached on Eph VI, 10-20.   We got our prizes for repeating the Shorter Catechism today.   Fos came down, but the rest of us stopped up for tea, then came down. 

August 15, 1892 - Monday.  Very rainy.  A BIG freshet.  Rained remarkably heavy in the night last night.  F.J. Logan was stream-driving.  He had a large crowd of men.  Quite a few of them got their lunch here this afternoon,and in the evening.  Dryde Power was here all night.  Bub was home all night.

August 16, 1892 - Tuesday.  Dark this forenoon but cleared off after dinner.  The rain is over.  There has been a large freshet.  The stream-drivers stopped at noon today.   James and Charles Graham and Sandy Deyarmond here to dinner.  R. MacKenzie and a Mr McCabe   over to see about them taking a job of sawing in Greenfield.   Charlie and Fos have a notion of taking the mill and doing the sawing. I washed the pantry this afternoon.  Morrison went down to the store (F.J. Logan's) tonight.  Got some oatmeal.  Ruby E. Graham, and Laura B. Higgins here a while this evening.  Mr and Mrs Higgins went to Pictou this afternoon.

August 17, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day.   Charlie went to the woods this morning.  Bub set him up.   Was baking today.  Fos went home after dinner to help Bub get wood.   F.J. Logan called a minute.   Mrs Blaikie down a while tonight.  Also F.J. MacKay.   Have the rheumatism pretty bad these days.

August 18, 1892 - Thursday. A fine day.  Bub and Fos mowing some.  They put it in too.   Mr Fraser up to Prayer Meeting.  Not many there.  Only eleven.   Washed some this forenoon and washed the kitchen floor after dinner.  Laura and Amy Higgins were here a while after dinner.

Note: for the next several days, Elmira writes parts of her entries in a code.  Today, this code is known as the pigpen code, and I have decoded the entries and included them in regular English.  Copies of the original entries are included elsewhere in this collection.

August 19, 1892 - Friday.  Looks dark.    Ironed this morning.  Went up home this afternoon. James Graham hauled a load of stuff for us after dinner.  Fos and I stayed home for tea , then Fos drove us down.  Got a mess of string beans at home.   Alice Proven and Mrs Herb Ogilvie and daughter Bessie were picking raspberries.    Got ----pounds of butter from Alice Proven. 

August 20, 1892 - Saturday.  A pretty wet day.  Washed a little this morning but did not put the white clothes out for it was so rainy.  Charles Graham called a little while this morning. Morrison and Charles Proven went to Riversdale this afternoon.  H.Higgins and Fos off somewhere tonight. 

August 21, 1892 - Sabbath.  Dark and drizzly.  Bub up home in the morning.   Foster went up to Mr Higgins' with Mr Higgins who was down. Morrison kept the children for me to go to Service.  Mr Fraser preached from the text "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

August 22, 1892 - Monday.  A fine day.   They were working at the floom.  I was washing.  Alden was pretty sick with cholers.  Eunice and Allen Deyarmond and George A. Graham   went picking blueberries.  Made emptyings at noon and mixed  the bread tonight.   Laura Higgins and Herb down tonight.

August 23, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Very good hay day.  They finished haying today.  Also fixed the two bridges.  Herb Higgins was working here today. I was washing, as usual.  And baking too.  Alden is better.  Had new potatoes for dinner.

August 24, 1892 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  Mrs Blaikie came down this morning, before we had our breakfast.  The cow had not come and she wanted someone to go after her.  We all went up as they were going up anyway to tear the grist mill to pieces.  Morrison and I and the children came down about dusk.  Charles Proven and Kenny Graham were here when we got back.  Mrs Blaikie, Alden and I called to see Mary Fulton as we went up.  Fos and Herb Higgins went down to D. Creelman's after a piece of fresh beef that Edson Cox had left there for us.

August 25, 1892 - Thursday.  Fine again but cooler.  The nights are a good deal cooler than they were. Bub and Fos up home mowing the oats today.   Geordie MacKay hauled two loads of machinery.  He and Hugh here to dinner.  Alden and Roy pretty bad with cholera.  They are quite fretful and I don't get much done but wait on them and the work. 

August 26, 1892 - Friday.  Rainy day, or rather raining this morning, and dark  all the rest of the day.  Washed this afternoon.  Roy pretty sick this morning, but better since dinner.  Mrs Higgins and Laura here this afternoon - sewing.  Mrs Blaikie down tonight, and Bub went up with her and brought down a mess of potatoes.  Mrs Samuel Johnson and Martin called, and the colt upset a gallon of molasses for them.  Am tired tonight.  Roy and Alden some better.

August 27, 1892 - Saturday. Was baking most all the afternoon.  Charlie came home tonight.

August 28, 1892 - Sabbath.  Drizzly and dark all day.  Sabbath School at half-past two.  Quite a lot down to church from Burnside.  Charlie and Fos were there.  Herb, How and Laura Higgins started for Sabbath School but were too late, and so went back home.

August 29, 1892 - Monday.  Rainy and dark.  But cleared off after dinner.  Washed this afternoon, but did not get the white clothes out, as I hadn't rinse water.  Geordie MacKay hauled two loads of Mill Machinery today.  One in the forenoon and one after dinner.  Laura Higgins and her aunt, Mrs William Myers, called this morning.  Mr Myers was down at the mill. 

August 30, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Charles Proven here today, helping at the grist mill.  I washed the pantry, kitchen, and entry this afternoon with the rinse water of the white clothes.  Mrs Blaikie down a little while.  Was baking this forenoon.  Laura Higgins and William Cameron, her uncle, here a little while tonight. 

August 31, 1892 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Cloudy tonight.  Charlie and Fos went up home to put in the oats this forenoon, but they did not get many in as they couldn't get a team.  They threshed what they did get in.  We had some of our string beans for dinner.  Didn't do much but the work today, as I was too lazy.  Baked a small sweet cake this afternoon.  Morrison put up the writing case tonight.

September 1, 1892 - Thursday.  A shower this morning but the weather cleared off before dinner and we had a fine afternoon.  D.M. went to the Village this morning and back about half past three.  Mr and Mrs Samuel Johnson and Mrs Blaikie were down a little while this afternoon.  Libbie L. Graham also called.  She was up to Mr Higgins'.  Had a letter from Sylvester tonight.  They were sawing this afternoon Mr C. Graham hauled in the logs.  Got a sample package of Lactated food from the Wells Richardson Company to night.

September 2, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  Rather a cool breeze.  Charlie and Fos went up to the school house last night, but there was no prayer meeting.  Charlie did not come down until this morning.  Bub and Fos went up home after dinner and raked up the oats.  D.M., Roy, Alden and I  went up to Charles Proven's to tea.   Got the loan of Mrs Heman's Poetical works from Alice.  Made emptyings tonight.  Bub home now.

September 3, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Cooler weather now.  They were sawing a good part of the day.  Herb Higgins was here. W. Foster Rutherford  was up after a load of lumber this forenoon.  I washed in the forenoon and washed the room floor after dinner.  Little Martha Graham was here all day.  Roy had a great day, as he is very fond of Martha.   We had a letter from Liss Graham tonight.  She is in Trafalgar.

September 4, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Mr Fraser was up today.  I stayed at home and kept the baby.  Morrison took Roy up and he stayed at home with Mrs Blaikie.  Howard Graham called at tea time.

September 5, 1892 - Monday.  Drizzly and rainy.  The sun shone out once quite brightly, but it got dark again.  We prepared for the men coming to move the mill at dinner, but they didn't come until the afternoon.  They were here to tea.  There were five of them.  Two McCabes and three McKennie's.  Aunt Esther and Mrs Blaikie were here this afternoon.  Fos was down to Otterbrook, Village, Corner, etc.He got a barrel of flour and some sugar.  Mr and Mrs C. Graham started for Truro today.

September 6, 1892 - Tuesday.  Dark and drizzly tonight, but it was a pretty fine day.  Also middling warm.  Mrs A. R. Higgins and Mrs William Myers were here to dinner and a while in the afternoon.  James W. Deyarmond here for dinner and tea.  He was working this afternoon.  Howard Graham and Laura Higgins were here a little while tonight.  Was fixing Fos' clothes to go to Greenfield today.  Charlie went out to Johnson's this morning.  Bub was up home after tea tonight.

September 7, 1892 -  Wednesday.  A fine, rather cool day.  Charlie and Fos went to Greenfield via H. Johnson's this morning.  How Higgins took them up a piece.  Eunice Deyarmond and Alice Proven were here a while this afternoon.  Mrs B. came down with Howard Higgins and went over to George Deyarmond's to spend the afternoon.    Was baking today.  Guess the bread is good. 

September 8, 1892 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Washed this forenoon.  Bub and Morrison carried the water.  Washed the baking tray etc this afternoon.   Bub went up home about three o'clock and is stopping for prayer meeting.  Had a letter from Papa tonight.  J.W. Deyarmond was in a while after tea.

September 9, 1892 -Friday.  A fine day.  A cold night.  Uncle Charlie working here today.  Bub went up home with Henry Johnson to get some shingles, (Johnson was getting them) , and brought down some salt.  Alice Proven, Lena Crockett, and Everett Deyarmond and Howard Graham were in tonight.

September 10, 1892 - Saturday.  Another fine day.  Andrew Dickie and Sarah Graham were here with grists today, but as they only got the mill started in the afternoon, the people didn't get theirs home with them.  Charles Proven, C. Graham and J.W. Deyarmond were here today working.  C. Proven went away about four o'clock.   Had a letter from Edith and Fred tonight.   Mrs Blaikie was down for dinner and until about four o'clock in the afternoon.

September 11, 1892 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  We were up at 7:20.  D.M., children and I went up home after dinner.  D.M. and Roy went up to Sabbath School.   Uncle Sam had stayed there to dinner as he went up from church.   Eunice Deyarmond was there too.   We got back about half past six.  Bub was just eating his supper.   James McKennie was buried today.

September 12, 1892 - Monday.  A fine day.  Mrs Blaikie was down after dinner.    She got a chance down to the foot path with Uncle Jim. Uncle John Blaikie made his appearance tonight.  He came just as we were done supper.   Eunice Deyarmond went to Truro.  She starts for USA on Monday.

September 13, 1892 - Tuesday.  Also fine.   They were grinding today.  J. McGill Johnson and C. Cox were here to dinner.    J.W. Deyarmond was working here today.  Jack McMullin had a grist here this afternoon.    Mrs B. and Ida down tonight.

September 14, 1892 - Wednesday.  Fine as usual.  Beautiful weather.  C. Garham, and C. Proven were working here this  forenoon.  C. Graham in the afternoon too.  Uncle Jim was here to tea.  Was baking today.  Charles Proven had just got home from his trip to Truro and brought word that James Gould had hurt his leg by falling from a staging on which he was working. 

September 15, 1892 - Thursday.  Windy.  Very, or rather high wind, and drizzly toward night.  Rained a little at night.  Uncle C. Graham was here this forenoon but went home after dinner.  C. Proven wasn't here today.  Mr Henry Smith was here to dinner.  Mrs B was down and brought the cats.  Baby is fussy tonight. 

September 16, 1892 - Friday.  Dark this morning but it cleared off and was a fine day.  James W. Deyarmond was here this forenoon and a little while after dinner.    I and Alden went up home after dinner and got some beans for our dinner tomorrow.   Marjory came home.  Uncle Ad was here to tea.  Bub, Roy and I shelled beans tonight.  D.M. put Alden to sleep.  Everett Deyarmond was here tonight.  C. Proven got home from moose-hunting this afternoon. 

September 17, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Quite a rush of grain this morning - indeed all day.  J.A. Pierce and a Mr Fulton here to dinner.  At night, Roy and I went up to Alice Proven's to get some buttermilk and a bottle of milk.  Alice had gone up to Mr Crockett's to see Jennie who is sick with cholera, and Charles was away and no one was there but Everett.  They ground until about ten o'clock tonight.

September 18, 1892 - Sabbath.  Still fine.  Review Day in the church and school house.  Bub, Roy and I were up to the school house.  Morrison kept Alden.

September 19, 1892 - Monday.  Looks dark, but no rain yet.  The water is getting rather low.  Washed the pantry and kitchen floors this forenoon.  Messrs Henry Smith, J.H. Pratt, and Larry Freeman were here to dinner.  Took Alden up home tonight and left him with Mrs Blaikie.  Roy went up but came back with me.  I met James W. Deyarmond at the junction, and he came back and round with us.  He was coming to the mill anyway.  They are grinding at the mill tonight.

September 20, 1892 - Tuesday.  A shower last night.  It was quite cool today.   There will be frost tonight, I think. Washed a large washing this forenoon.  Carried part of the water myself.  Quite a lot of buckwheat, etc. came into the mill.  Mr Harvey Archibald had a grist of fifty bushels.  Steven Pratt was here to tea.  "Thar's sumpthing up".  I went up home (walked) and got a pail of buttermilk.  Alden has a sore mouth and it makes him quite troublesome.

September 21, 1892 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  D.M. and Roy went up to the other place this morning to get potatoes etc.   John C. Pratt, Campbell Whidden, and Mr Robert Jeffers were here to dinner.  After dinner, Roy and I went up to Mr Higgins' and stayed to tea.  Got Bub and D.M.'s tea after I came home.

September 22, 1892 - Thursday.  Still fine.  Washed the room and our place this forenoon.  Mrs Higgins sent me some carrots and a turnip and I made a stew  for dinner.  Alex Fulton brought a grist but did not wait for it.  He left his cart.  We got a bread box and kettle (tin) from George A. Lain.  Morrison, Roy and I went up to see Alden tonight, but  didn't bring him down as he had the cold so bad.

September 23, 1892- Friday.  Pretty fine but not so fine as common.  Morrison went to Greenfield this morning.  Howard Higgins was here a little while, or rather from about ten until two or three in the afternoon.  Mrs George, James W., and Agnes Deyarmond, Robbie, Ethel and Alberta were here to dinner.  Agnes and children (all but Robbie)  stayed to tea.  Roy and I went a little  piece with them, but we met James William and Robbie and came back.

September 24, 1892 - Saturday.  Rather dark.  Water a bit low.  Mr Alex MacKenzie and two Stewart boys were here today with grists.  They came from Musquodoboit.  Morrison got home about eight in the evening.  Bub ground until about ten o'clock.

September 25, 1892 - Sabbath.  Rather dark.  A little drizzly.  We were not up this morning until 8:35.  Then, after breakfast,D.M., Roy and I went up to the other house.   Bub got his dinner his self, as Roy says, and came up to preaching.  I stayed and kept Alden for Grandma.  Afterr tea we all (D.M., Bub, Roy, Alden and I) went down to Red Rock Place again.

September 26, 1892 - Monday.  Showery.  Uncle Jim brought the cradle down this forenoon.  Mrs Blaikie was down a while this forenoon and Roy went home with her.   It is School Meeting night.  Bub, Morrison and I also youngsters went up.  Bub came down after School Meeting and stayed up at Mr Higgins' all night.  The rest of us stayed all night at home.

September 27, 1892 - Tuesday.  Cooler.  Quite a breeze.  We got down before eight this morning, but not before Bub had the mill running.  Quite a lot of grain came in today.   James Creelman (S.F.'s son) was here to dinner.  D.M. is up at James A. Graham's tonight.  He will soon be home.   Mr Crockett is going to grind tonight.

September 28, 1892 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine, but cool and breezy.  Alden has sore mouth and is troublesome.  Mr Robert Dunlap of Meadowvale and Mr William Redmond of Dean Settlement  were here to dinner.   Mrs D.S. Deyarmond called a little while this morning.   Morrison and Roy were down to F.J. Logan's this afternoon.    They got stuff for clothes for Roy, also half a fore quarter of beef  from Edson Cox.  Antony Crocker was here to tea.

September 29, 1892 - Thursday.    Colder, windy too.    Morrison and Roy went up home this forenoon, got potatoes, buttermilk, butter, a pumpkin pie, etc.   Mr C. Johnson was there for dinner.   There was a meeting of the W.F.M.S. at the school house. at two o'clock.  Mrs Blaikie came down here, on an errand, and she and Mrs Higgins went up together.   Mr and Mrs Fraser were up.  Also Mrs David Archibald, Mrs Augusta, and Miss Lelia Logan etc.   I washed the pantry and kitchen floors this afternoon.  David Deyarmond called in the evening.   Had a letter from Sylvester today.   Also a visit from H.H. Ogilvie.

September 30, 1892 - Friday.  Pretty fine.   Mrs Blaikie went over to Mrs G. Deyarmond's this morning.   Bub went up to bring  "Tom" back when she went home.   Didn't do much but the work and baking today.  Morrison was not very well.   Alice Proven and Lena C. here tonight.

October 1, 1892 - Saturday.  Fine.  Cooler weather now.  Jack Graham and George Tupper here to dinner.  D.M. went down to the Village, Corner, etc today.  Howard Graham came over from Greenfield today.   Alex F. J. MacKay came home from Truro.  Johnnie Willie Graham was in a while this afternoon.  Lena Crockett went to  George  Dickie's today.   Had a letter form Ede tonight.

October 2, 1892 - Sabbath.  Cold, windy and showery.  Sacrament sabbath.  Mrs Blaikie, Bub and I down to church.  We were rather late.  We lost the ring out of the back saddle coming home.   Herb Higgins and Howard and  Ira  were all down this afternoon.  We had a late tea on account of our late dinner.

October 3, 1892 - Monday.  Pretty fine but chilly.  Mr W. Redmond, and Mr Robert Chaplin were here to dinner.  Also  Charles Proven who brought me some buttermilk. Washed this afternoon.  They hauled water for me.   Mr Blaikie was down this afternoon a few minutes.  He brought me some yarn to make mittens.

October 4, 1892 - Tuesday.  Drizzly and rainy, but rather warmer.  J.W. Dunlap of Otterbrook, and Charles Dunlap of Newton Mills here to dinner.  Didn't do much but the work and knitting today.  It is raining tonight.  Bub and Morrison are in the mill tonight, and Roy and Alden are tearing round with the kittens.

October 5, 1892 - Wednesday.  A rather dark day.  Quite a squall this afternoon.  The wind blew and the rain poured.  Didn't do much but baking and work this forenoon.  Mrs Blaikie  was here an hour or two this afternoon.  She brought me some butter and milk.   Morrison was up to Jim Graham's and C. Proven's this afternoon. Alice gave him a kettle of buttermilk.  Deacon Deyarmond was here tonight with a grist.  he is greatly interested in getting gold, also a gold mill.

October 6, 1892 - Thursday.  Cool and rather dark.  Finer after dinner.  David Crocker here to dinner.  Mrs D.R. Creelman sent me a basket of apples with Bert.   Sandy Dawson here to tea.   Johnnie Willie came just as we were going to bed  to get a bag iron of his thresher fixed.

October 7, 1892 - Friday.  Rainy last night but finer today.  Quite sunshiny.   James Graham brought a load of hay from the George Guild place for us.   John Power was here this afternoon.   I was piecing patchwork a little this afternoon.   Knitting this evening.   Answered Edith's letter yesterday, and received letters from Papa and Liss.

October 8, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Just knit this forenoon and did the work.   Mrs Blaikie came down after dinner and stayed until after three, when Morrison took her home and went round by Robt. and James A. Graham's and got some apples.  Nellie and Byde Johnson came down just before Mrs Blaikie went away, and stayed to tea.

October 9, 1892 - Sabbath.  Pretty wet.  Thunder too.  We were up about 7:20.  Herb Higgins here this forenoon and to dinner.   None of us were at Sabbath School, andJ.W. and Everett Deyarmond came in  and stopped here this afternoon as it was so wet.

October 10, 1892 - Monday.  A fine day.  Quite cool tonight.  Morrison went down along this forenoon and didn't return until dusk.  We got a barrel of flour, sugar, ginger etc.  Mrs Blaikie and Uncle Sam were here this forenoon.  Frank Fulton too, and quite a lot of others.  I ran up to Alice Proven's this afternoon for some milk and buttermilk.  Bub kept the children for me.   Jack Graham, Luther, Cy and Bill, dug, picked and hauled our potatoes today.   We allowed there were twenty bushels.  Potatoes are very poor this year.  Some people have none at all. 

October 11, 1892 - Tuesday.  Rather wet this afternoon.  Quite cold tonight.  Was sewing this forenoon.  James Hamilton here to dinner.  J. Pace here this forenoon.   Mrs Blaikie came down just when we were eating dinner.  She brought us some butter.   Roy and I took her up and brought down some fish, buttermilk, etc.  D.M. kept Alden at home.  Ruby Graham came while I was away.  She stayed to tea.  Henry and Dennie Graham and Allen Deyarmond were here this evening.

October 12, 1892 - Wednesday.   A fine day.  Windy and cold though.  Not much grain came in today.  Charlie and Fos came home and Fos went down to F.J. Logan's.  Mr Higgins and two Mr Presses were down this evening.  The latter were wanting to buy a mill.  I finished Roy's pants this forenoon, and pasted some in my scrapbook.  Ironed etc this afternoon. 

October 13, 1892- Thursday.  A fine day.  Uncle Adam Johnson down with a grist before we had our breakfast this morning.  Charlie and Fos were here all night.  They went partridge hunting this forenoon, and down to Jno. Gourley's in the afternoon.   Bub went up to Uncle Jim's in the afternoon and down to Prayer Meeting and then home tonight.

October 14, 1892 - Friday.  A very nice day.  Alfred and Bub were moving Mr and Mrs Blaikie down here;  they brought one load before dinner and one afterwards.  Alice Proven was in this afternoon, also Mr Higgins.  Charlie and Fos went back to Greenfield this morning.  They will soon be done there.

October 15, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Uncle Charlie was here to dinner, also Boyd Dickie.  The former and D.M.went down to F.J. Logan's afterward.  Mr and Mrs Blaikie went up to the old place in the afternoon and brought  down some plants etc.   Agnes Johnson brought a small grist to the mill and stayed the afternoon.   Mrs B. and Alice Proven were up to Mr Higgins' to tea.   Morrison got a wheat bolt and a suit of clothes.

October 16, 1892- Sabbath.  Fine.  Mr and Mrs Blaikie , Bub and Morrison up to preaching.   They got back about half past five.

October 17, 1892 - Monday.  Another fine day.  A shower last night.  Quite a lot of grain coming in these days.   Geordie Graham (Hugh's) was here to dinner.  We washed in the afternoon and washed the pantry, cookroom and entry too.  Morrison set up the stove upstairs.

October 18, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day but rather cold tonight.  Nettie Webster's tenth birthday.  They put the mill stones that they intend to grind wheat with into the mill.  J.W. Deyarmond, Herb and Howard Higgins helped them.  Roy and I went up to the other place and brought down the bitter yeast and the calla lily.   Mrs F. Davidson took a kitten home.  Finished reading "Margie's Mission" (Marie Oliver) tonight.

October 19, 1892 - Wednesday.  Fine this forenoon but rather dark this afternoon.   Morrison went to Greenfield this morning and is not back.   Mr and Mrs Blaikie went up to the old place and brought down a hen, etc, this afternoon.  William Rutherford (Eastville or Newton Mills) and C. Dunlap were here with grain.  The latter had wheat.  Bub is up to Mr Higgins' tonight.

October 20, 1892 -  Thursday.  Squally.  Rather cool.  Aunt Mary Deyarmond was here all day. - fixing a basque for Ida.  Morrison got home about two o'clock.  he brought me cloth for an ulster, and a pair of overshoes and shoes.  Also brought Roy a gun (toy).  Morrison and I went up to Mr Higgins' in the evening.   We did not get back until half past nine.  Mr Higgins went to the shore today.

October 21, 1892 - Friday.  Rather dark.  Quite a lot of grinding today.  Had the toothache pretty badly but it is better tonight.   Mr and Mrs Blaikie were up to the other place today.  They drove up. 

October 22, 1892 - Saturday.  Just about the same as yeaterday.   Cleared, or rather finished cleaning up the chambers this forenoon.   After dinner I went down to F.J. Logan's store.  Got back about half past four, then I turned the grindstone for Morrison to grind a little while.  Had a letter from Ede tonight.   J. Herbert Graham came home from the States this week. 

October 23, 1892 - Sabbath.  Fine this forenoon, but a little drizzly in the afternoon.   Mrs Blaikie and I were up to Sabbath School.    Mrs Pratt has left Mosie again.  They are going to take him to jail if they can do so.

October 24, 1892 - Monday.  Dark and drizzly.  Fos' twenty - first birthday.  I went up and helped Alice Proven butcher her geese.  She had eight.  Got done about half past four.  Charles came down to the foot-bridge with me.  Mrs Higgins and Amy were here to dinner.  Mrs B. washing.

October 25, 1892 - Tuesday.  Rather dark.   Moses Pratt was tried, convicted and sent to Truro jail today.  The trial was held at William Deyarmond's.  Morrison got our express wagon home.  Mrs Higgins was here a little while this forenoon.  Mr Crockett was picking the wheat stones.  John Power here to dinner.  Andrew Bentley came tonight.  Made a dress-skirt for Ida this afternoon.

October 26, 1892 - Wednesday.  Dark but not rainy.  Went out to the Cove this morning.  Had a pretty lively time.  Went by Otterbrook and called at the school-house for some of the children, but of course none of them were there, so I had to go away round to the Branch bridge, and it was not passable - There was nothing for me but to go through J.S. Tupper's field  and ford the river - which I did.  And lost Mrs B.'s ulster.   Got to Mamma's about half past eleven.  Janie came home with me and we called at Fred Tupper's and got Johnnie Webster who came across the river with us, and found the ulster just at the edge of it.  We got home about fifteen minutes after six o'clock.

October 27, 1892 - Thursday.  Rainy this forenoon but quite fine after dinner.  Examination Day at school.  Quite a number there - viz. Messrs Albert, Charles,and Wilbert Fulton; Charles, C.E., Robert, and Johnnie Graham; James Johnson, P.S. Hamilton, J.W. Deyarmond and Geordie MacKay.   Mrs Samuel and Mrs James Johnson; Lucy Johnson, Christy J. Graham, Esther Brown, Mrs Alex and Mrs Robert MacKay, Misses Laura and Winnie Fulton, Mrs Janet and Miss Annie Brown, Miss O'Brien, Mrs C.E. and Miss Etta J. Graham,  Miss L.B. Higgins, Miss Lena Crockett, Janie, Roy and myself. Lucy B. Johnson came down with us for dinner and stayed for Prayer Meeting.  As it was rainy, none of us went.

October 28, 1892 - Friday.  A fine day.  Morrison went to Riversdale this morning.  Also Charles Graham.  Janie and I went up and dug some parsnips and beets.  Mrs B., Mrs Higgins and Ida were up at Alice Proven's to dinner and to tea.  Jno. Fulton and Campbell Whidden were here to dinner.  Andrew Bentley was chopping and got left.  We had a fine stew for dinner.  Churned this afternoon.

October 29, 1892 - Saturday.  Rainy this forenoon and dark in the afternoon.  Morrison went to F.J. Logan's in the afternoon and got back at night.  He got sugar, molasses etc.   Eva Graham was lost or partly lost today.  Some people were looking for her.  She was at Mrs George Deyarmond's.

October 30, 1892 - Sabbath.  Fine this forenoon.  Quite a thunderstorm in the afternoon.  The weather got quite cold at night.  Mrs B., Janie and I drove up to preaching.  Mr and Mrs J.A. Graham got their two little girls, Amanda and Cora May, baptized.  Mr Fraser preached on Ephesians    IV, verses ? .  A fine discourse on devoting ones-self to Mission Work,  or young men to the Ministry.

October 31, 1892 - Monday.  Quite a flurry of snow this morning.  The first of the season.  A pretty fine day, though.  Andrew Bentley and D.M. went up to the woods this morning and wern't home until after six o'clock.  We washed the clothes this forenoon and the pantry, kitchen and entry after dinner.  Also peeled and strung some apples.  Alex Miller was here to dinner.

November 1, 1892 - Tuesday.  Dark and drizzly.  Gold prospectors up.   MacKenzie of Musquodoboit and Johnson of New York or thereabouts.  Little Andy called this forenoon.  Mr William Deyarmond working here part of the day.  Alice Proven was here in the evening. 

November 2, 1892 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine.  Rather cool tonight.  Mr Deyarmond here all day - working at the grist mill.  Mr and Mrs Blaikie, Janie and Bub went up to the other place this afternoon and brought down various things.  Billy Kennedy was up with a grist and he brought us two and a half bushles of apples.  We baked today.  Mixed the bread last night.  Herb and Laura Higgins and Everett Deyarmond here this evening.

November 3, 1892 - Thursday.  Snow on the ground this morning, but it went off with rain this forenoon.  Not so stormy this afternoon.  James Graham called this morning.  Mr William Deyarmond was working here today too. Johnnie and Nettie came up after Janie.  They got here just at dinner-time.  Janie went back with them and it is a little lonesome without her.  We got no letter from Charlie and Fos tonight.   Andrew was banking the house today.  It was too stormy to go to the woods.

November 4, 1892 - Friday.  A lovely morning but rather a dark day.  Morrison went down along this forenoon, and he and P.W. Graham  came back about half-past six tonight.  The boys came home from Greenfield after we had our tea, but they hadn't theirs.  E. Pike and Aubrey MacKenzie were with them.  They brought all the mill back.  One team stopped at F. Bentley's in Otterbrook.  Ida, Roy and I were up to Mrs Higgins' all day.  Andrew was home when we got back.

November 5, 1892 - Saturday.  Dark.  The roads are abominable.  The men that hauled the engine took it up to the site this forenoon, came back here to dinner, and then went back.  Andrew went down to Pembroke.   Took Alice Proven's book home this afternoon.  Jimmie McKennie was over about four o'clock.

Novcember 6, 1892 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  rather cold.  Johnnie Herbert Graham was here all night last night and to breakfast and dinner.  Charlie went to Sabbath School and did not come back.

November 7, 1892 - Monday.  A cold night.  Ground frozen pretty stiff.  They carried water for us to wash this morning, and we got the clothes washed in the forenoon.  I washed the pantry and kitchen after dinner.   We peeled and strung a pan of apples.  Laura Higgins was down and got me to stitch the velvet on her dress on the machine.  Mr C. Graham and Dennie were hauling our hay today.  Charlie and Fos are away this evening.

November 8, 1892 - Tuesday.  Rainy and damp all day.  Very dirty.  Mr Perrin came this morning about ten o'clock.  He walked over from his place.  Cleveland elected Presodent of US the second time.

November 9, 1892 - Wednesday.  Dark weather.  Charlie down along.  Got tea, sugar, etc.

November 10, 1892 - Thursday.  Thanksgiving Day.  The ground was covered with snow about the middle of the afternoon, then the rain began to fall and it is a very rough evening.  Mrs B., Charlie and Fos were up to Thanksgiving Service in the School House.  Lena Crockett was down a little while this afternoon.  Andy Graham is here this evening, and is preaching like wild.  He is pretty wild.  Alden is not well tonight.

November 11, 1892 - Friday.  Quite a freshet after last night's rain.  But it was snowing a few flakes today.   Went up to C. Proven's and Alice helped me to make a dress, or rather, she cut and fitted it.  Ida was sick, but Alden was better than he was last night.

November 12, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Quite a lot of sunshine.  Had a letter from Edith.

November 13, 1892 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Cooler than yesterday.  Andrew Bentley and Mr Perrin here.  Neither of them at preaching though.  D.M., Bub, Fos and I were there.  The sermon was from the third of Matthew and the words "Repent ye".

November 14, 1892 - Monday.  Sunshine, rain and dark sky all today.  We did a mountain of work today.  Our family of three  was diminished by one at dinner and increased by one at tea.  We washed a large washing this forenoon. I mixed the bread.  After dinner Mrs B. was attending to the baking and I washed the pantry, kitchen and entry.  H.Dean came after Mr Perrin to go to election over there.

November 15, 1892 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  Not much sunshine but pleasant.  Five years since we were married.  Alice Proven called this forenoon and brought my dress down.  Laura Higgins was here this afternoon and How and Herb came down in the evening.

November 16, 1892 -Wednesday.  A nice morning, but it is windy and rainy tonight.  Mrs B. was down to Samuel Deyarmond's and P.S. Hamilton's.  Didn't do anything but the work today.

November 17, 1892 - Thursday.  Pretty fine.  Catechisming at the school house at two o'clock in the afternoon.  Mrs Blaikie was up.  Quite a number there.  Charlie and Herb went over to Greenfield.

November 18, 1892 - Friday.  Warm but not very fine.  Was sewing a little this forenoon.  Mr Ashmore Brown and Alfred Johnson were here to dinner.  Mrs Blaikie was not very well this morning, but was better in the afternoon.  She and Fos drove up to the other place.  Laura Higgins was down tonight a short time.

November 19, 1892 - Saturday.  Windy with slight squalls.  Quite heavy showers last night.  Went up to Mrs Higgins' and helped them kill, or rather pick turkeys today.  We picked and dressed sixteen and were done by half past one.  Did not get to work very early.   They were working at the wheat mill.  Started it but it did not work very well.  Fos was home, acting the blackard this evening.

November 20, 1892 - Sabbath.  A wet day.  Quite a freshet.  Rained most all day, and last night was a rainy night.   How, Henry and John Herbert Graham  were in.  Mr Perrin is here yet.

November 21, 1892 - Monday.  Pretty wet today.  Stream-drivers were at work, but they were scarce of food.  Mrs Blaikie and I washed in the forenoon, but it was too wet to put the clothes out, so we left them soaking in the tub.  We baked ginger-snaps and a shortcake after dinner.

November 22, 1892 - Tuesday.  Dark and drizzly.  Had vegetables for dinner today.  They finished fixing the grist mill tonight.  Some wheat was ground today.

November 23, 1892 - Wednesday.  Colder.  Mr Perrin, Charlie, Fos and Morrison went up to the mill, or rather where the mill is to set this winter, this morning.  D.M. came home about six o'clock tonight.  We baked a baking of home-made bread.  Mr Hugh L. Dunlap, agent for apple trees, was here this afternoon. Ned Graham, who was getting his grist ground, bought half a dozen.

November 24, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Lovely sunshine.   We put the clothes out this forenoon and they got dry.  Mrs Blaikie was up to Mr Higgins' to dinner and tea.  I was cutting out dresses for Alden.  Cut out two.  Bub went up to the mill this morning.  Mr Fraser was up to Prayer Meeting.   None of us were except Fos and he came home after prayer meeting.  Bessie, Mrs Abner Smith, came home from USA.

November 25, 1892 - Friday.  A fine forenoon but quite a snowstorm since tea.  The ground has got white.  Bub and Fos walked up to the mill this morning.  Mr Perrin and Bub came home tonight.  Mrs Blaikie came home from Mrs Deyarmond's after dark.  She was spending the afternoon there.  Charles Proven was down a little while this afternoon.  Morrison patched the roof of the house, and fixed the barn door.  Also gournd some.

November 26 , 1892 - Saturday.  Snowy.  Snowed almost all day.  Morrison took Mr Perrin as far as the Corner, or rather F.J. Logan's store, on the way home.  He, D.M., was at F.J. Logan's for dinner; got home about three o'clock.  Bub was at home getting wood, etc.  Charlie and Fos got home at tea time.  Had letters from Mrs Walters and from Annie Archibald.

November 27, 1892 - Sabbath.  Snow on the ground, but it (the ground) is not frozen.  Bub, Mr Blaikie and I were at home from preaching.  H. Higgins was here to dinner.

November 28, 1892 - Monday.  Some dark, some sun, some thaw.  We washed, or rather I washed for the children this forenoon, and washed the floor in the afternoon.   Charlie and Fos went up to the woods this morning.  Herb Higgins got our wagon to go down along today.   Robert Rutherford here to dinner.  James and Ed Hamilton here in the forenoon too.   Bub has the asthma and catarrh pretty badly;  he was over and got some stuff from Aunt Ann.  Had a letter from Papa tonight.  Uncle Sam brought it from the Corner.

November 29, 1892 - Tuesday.  A pretty fine day.  Snow did not go off.  D.M. went up to the woods this morning and did not get home until after seven.  Made the covering for two quilts today.   Mrs B. went up to the other place and brought down the frames to quilt them.  Laura Higgins here part of the afternoon and to tea.  J.W. Graham was inviting people to a dance at John A. Graham's tomorrow night.

November 30, 1892 - Wednesday.  A very stormy day.  Wind, rain and snow.  D.M. and Fos started for the woods, and Roy  and I went up to Mr James Johnson's;  but as it was so stormy, Morrison went up too, and Fos did not go to the woods alone.  We, D.M., Roy and I, stayed until after tea.  Mr and Mrs J.W. Deyarmond, Ethel and Alberta were there too.  Mr and Mrs Colin Grant from South Branch were here when we came home.    Guess the dance at Jack's was a success "in some ways"

December 1, 1892 - Thursday.  Rather dark and rainy.  Quite a rain last night.  Warmer than commom today.  Snow all gone.  Mrs C.E. Graham, Etta and Johnnie were here to dinner, also Clarence Johnson, and a boy of Harvey Archibald's.   Mr and Mrs Grant were here until about ten this morning, when they went to Mrs Eliza Blaikie's.

December 2, 1892 - Friday.  A lovely fine day;  almost springlike.  Mrs Higgins was here to dinner, and a while after.    Mrs P.S. Hamilton and baby here this afternoon.  P.S. came in the evening and stopped a little while.

December 3, 1892 - Saturday.  Pretty fine.  Not so nice as yeaterday.  Knitting this forenoon.  A.R. Higgins got home tonight.  I wemt down to R.S. Deyarmond's this afternoon.  Morrison was down to J.F. Logan's etc.  We got a pair of blankets.  Got no letter from Edith tonight.  Was disappointed. 

December 4, 1892 - Sabbath.  Dark and drizzly.  No Sabbath School. No preaching.  A dreary day to me.

December 5, 1892 - Monday.  Snowy and dark.   We washed this forenoon and had a large wash too.  Charlie was down to F.J. Logan's after dinner.  The youngsters seemed...............well, I ............  .   Clara's sixth birthday.  Tired tonight, not to say cross.

December 6, 1892 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Quite a lot of sunshine.  Aunt Eliza Blaikie made a short visit, but she went away about one o'clock.  She brought us some apples.  Mr A.R. Higgins was here to dinner too.   Charlie, Fos and Bub went to the woods this morning, and don't intend coming back tonight.  (Charlie and Fos did.)  We were baking today.  Had twelve loaves and a pan of buns.

December 7, 1892 - Wednesday.  A snowy day.  We were knitting all day.  Laura Higgins and Uncle John Blaikie were here to dinner.   I was stitching a little for Laura.  Charlie and Fos went up to the woods this morning.

December 8, 1892 - Thursday.  A lovely fine day.  Quite like spring.  We were making a jacket for Morrison today, and I was making a dress for Alden.   E.A. Logan had a grist of wheat up in the afternoon.   The boys all came home tonight.  No letter from Edith tonight either.

December 9, 1892 - Friday.  A rainy, disagreeable day.  Laura Higgins' birthday.  Herb Higginse all night.  Johnnie Willie and Johnnie Herbert Graham here to dinner.  J.W. Graham and Charlie out to the Branch after dinner.  We made emptyings after tea.

December 10, 1892 - Saturday.  Cloudy.  Rather a raw wind.  Mrs Blaikie and Roy were up to Mr Higgins' to dinner.   Cal here with a grist and to dinner.  Fos went to Otterbrook.  We got a telegram from Edith and Fred at mail time.  They wanted me to meet them at J. Dickie's today.  But it was too late to go then.  So we waited and trusted.  About nine o'clock in the evening, J. Dickie brought them up.  Lissa Graham was here to tea and in the evening.

December 11, 1892 - Sabbath.  Rather cold and raw.  Fred and Morrison went up to the former's place in the forenoon.  They, Edith and I stayed at home from service in the school house.  Fos got home in the evening.

December 12, 1892 - Monday.  A nice fine day.  Edith and I washed clothes but did not bring them in as it was so fine at night.  Laura B. and Herb Higgins were down in the evening,.  Bub went to Truro.

December 13, 1892 - Tuesday.  Another pretty fine day.  Charlie and Fos went up to the woods this morning.  Geordie MacKay here to dinner.  We took a trunk for Fred and Edith.  They and I went up to their place in the afternoon.   Mrs B. kept Ralph and Roy and Alden.  Bub arrived about dusk.  Mrs Gould is not so well.  Charlie is home now.

December 14, 1892 - Wednesday.  Quite a fine day.  Fred and Morrison went up to the woods this morning and were gone allday.  The children were good all day.   Edith and I ironed the clothes this forenoon.  Bub was busy in the grist mill.  Charles Proven and Herb Higgins were here to spend the evening.

December 15, 1892 - Thursday.  Not so fine as common.  Bub and D.M. home all day, or rather Bub was, and D.M. and Fred were down to the Village in the afternoon making some purchases.  The children were extremely bad all day - most of all in the afternoon.

December 16, 1892 - Friday.  Quite a snow storm last night, and snow fell a little all day.  We, that is Edith and I, put in a quilt today.  Mrs Blaikie kept the children and Fred and D.M. got some wood.   After dinner Fred went down as far as R.S. Deyarmond's with Morrison (D.M. was going to F.J. Logan's) and bought a cow.  Alden has a cold and a slight touch of asthma tonight, and is very troublesome.

December 17, 1892 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Some grinding.  Fred and D.M. got the Sabbath wood.  Edith and I baked some sole leather pies, and quilted some in the afternoon.  Quite a lot of young folks came in the evening.  Viz - Ruby E., Christy J., and J.W. Graham; Bert Deyarmond, Allen Deyarmond, Marjory F, Melissa S., M.Dennie Graham; Herb Higgins, Mr Higgins, Charles Proven, James W. Deyarmond, Andrew Graham.   The boys came home in the evening.  Mrs Nickerson died.

December 18, 1892 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Colder toward night.  Breakfasted at nine.  Edith and I and Bub stayed home from Christian Endeavour.   I put on a clean apron.  Charlie went up to the woods tonight

December 19, 1892 - Monday.  A fine day but it is snowing tonight.  Edith and I washed this forenoon and washed the pantry and kitchen after dinner.  Also baked some sweet cakes.  Bub and Fos went up to the woods this morning.  Herb Higgins was chopping wood and Fred hauling it in the afternoon.    Then Herb went up with a bed for the boys.    T.D. Bates was up to purchase a water wheel from D.M. today.  

December 20, 1892 - Tuesday.  Cold.  Fred went up to his place and was threshing oats.  He took his dinner with him.  Dennie Graham was helping him two or three hours.  Mrs B. and Edith drove up in the afternoon.  I kept the children, Roy , Alden and Ralph.  We were baking bread.

December 21, 1892 - Wednesday.  Pretty cold.  A  cold night last night.  Fred finished threshing oats.  D.M. grinding pretty steady.  Wm. Brown here to dinner.  Edith was very busily engaged getting ready for canning.  We washed some things this morning and were ironing too.  Edith has the trunk all packed tonight.  Howard Higgins is stopping all night, to take Edith and Fred over to Riversdale in the morning.

December 22, 1892 - Thursday.  A very cold day.  Fred and Edith got off about six o'clock this morning.  Howard got back about four in the afternoon.  They got over in time for the train.  D.M. grinding today too.  Henry Johnson here with a grist in the afternoon.  Ida and Mrs Blaikie were washing after dinner.  Finished Alden's dress.

December 23, 1892 - Friday.  Cold and stormy.  No grists came today.  Mr D. McGill Johnson came for his.  Mrs Alex Lydiard  was buried today.  They brought her from Halifax.  Bub and Charlie came down from the woods.  One of the pipes had busted and they have to go to Truro to get one.  I was quilting.  Also baked a ginger cake.   It is pretty cold tonight.

December 24, 1892 - Saturday.  Not quite so cold.  Sun shone all day.  Got a quarter of beef from ....Crocker.  Papa and Johnnie came up about three o'clock.  Papa got home last Saturday.  Papa and Johnnie, Mr and Mrs Higgins here to tea.  Got the quilt out after tea.  Charlie went to Truro this morning and home about one o'clock at night.  He got Grandma a china cup, saucer and plate, and Roy a transformation picture book.  Morrison gave me a china cup and saucer and plate and a set of corsets, and Edith gave me a pair of gloves,  a cradle quilt and a cake of toilet soap.  Johnnie is pretty sleepy.  He is in bed, also Fos.

December 25, 1892 - Sabbath - Christmas Day.  Pretty cold.  We got up at nine twenty this morning.  Had beef-steak for dinner, and a piece of plum cake for tea.   Charlie and Fos up to preaching.  Papa and Johnnie went home in the afternoon.

December 26, 1892 - Monday.  Cold and windy.  Moderating tonight.  We did not wash until after dinner.  Mr George Johnson (over the river) here to dinner.  We washed after dinner but did not get the clothes out.  C. Proven, G. Deyarmond, A.R. Higgins, etc. here in the afternoon.  There was a shooting match up at Fred's place.  Lyman Johnson got a turkey, and E. MacCallum , a rooster.  There was a dance at Mrs C.E. Graham's in the evening. D.M. and I were invited up to Charles Proven's to tea.  We accepted the invitation and spent a very pleasant evening.  Mrs. J. Johnson was found upstairs ( at her home) Saturday evening, in an insensible condition.  Paralysis is feared to have been the cause, as far as we have heard. 

December 27, 1892 - Tuesday.  Not very cold, some sunshine.  A special washing.  All went up to the woods.  W.F. Rutherford had a grist of 40 bushels here, but did not get it today., as they were all away.  We were packing dishes to send to the woods today.  Howard Higgins was here about an hour cutting wood.  December 27, 1892 - married - H. Martin Smith of Otterbrook to Miss Martha Cox of the same place.

December 28, 1892 - Wednesday.  Not so cold.  No sunshine.  We were making sheets today.  Morrison home all day.  W.F. Rutherford, P.W. and J.H. Graham here to dinner.  The latter were going out to J.H. Graham's camp.  Johnnie Herbert got 2 3/4 pounds of tea.  Mr Higgins took Laura up to cook for our crowd this afternoon.  They started about two o'clock. Uncle John here a little while after dinner.

December 29, 1892 - Thursday.  A fine day for the time of year.  We put the clothes out this morning.  I washed the pantry, kitchen, and "cleaned out" the out place after dinner.  It was a task getting the ice thawed out and washed.  How Higgins here part of the forenoon and until 2:15.  Mr George Fulton (over the mountain) here to dinner.  Bub down tonight after more supplies.    Samuel Henly and Ida Hamilton were married at 6:30 tonight.

December 30, 1892 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Bub went up to the woods this morning.  Mrs B. brought the horse and pung back.   She called to see Mrs Wright and stopped at Uncle Sam's to dinner.     Mrs Hingley came down when she came home.  Made some mince-meat this forenoon and baked a pie.  Howard Higgins here this forenoon.  G.A. Laird called this afternoon.  Andrew Graham, J.T. Hamilton,   and Mr Hingley here to tea.

December 31, 1892 - Saturday.  Fine, clear and cold.  Mr Hingley here all night last night, and until after dinner when he went home.  Howard here from about nine in the morning  until about half past three.  I went up to Mrs Higgins' after dinner and got Morrison's shirts fixed.  We ironed this forenoon and Mrs Blaikie baked in the afternoon.