January 1, 1893 - Sabbath.  A nice day.  Pretty fine.  Bub came down from the woods last night.  Charlie came down today.  Also Herb came last night.  Mrs B., Bub and I drove up to service.  The sermon was very  good, but I did not get so much interested as I would had the school house not been roasting hot.  It was from Ephesians IV.   Charlie went up to the woods, and also Herb.  Bub fed the geese up at Fred's and found his gander missing.

January 2, 1893 - Monday.  Rainy and windy.  A small freshet.  Bub walked up to the shanty this morning.  Morrison grinding all day.  The snow is almost gone.  This is Bub's birthday.

January 3, 1893 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine after the storm yesterday.  I intended going down to F.J. Logan's yestyerday, but as the weather was not favorable, I didn't, and D.M. went down today, and up to the shanty.    He got into the pond, or rather the horse did, coming home.  They had quite a time getting him out.  Mr Higgins, Howard and Ira were helping Morrison.  We sewed most of the day. 

January 4, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Was not very well today.  Was in bed most of the forenoon, but my appetite was not impaired, so I am not serious.  Ida and Mrs B. washed in the afternoon.  Morrison was up to the prayer meeting tonight.  Deacon Deyarmond was there.   We sat up until D.M.'s return.  Wrote to A.M.A. tonight.

January 5, 1893 - Thursday.  Colder last night.  Snowing tonight.  D.M. and Roy intended going up to the woods this morning, but Robert Rutherford came with a grist, and so they had to stay at home.  Mr R. , however, went up instead of D.M.  Bub came home about three o'clock and went to Cross Roads to get the horse shod, and also for files.  Was sewing at Roy's coat today.  Mrs Blaikie was sewing at her dress.  Had letters fron Edith, Janie and Mamma tonight.

January 6, 1893 - Friday.  A stormy windy day, but not very cold.  Bub did not go up to the mill until this morning, and Morrison and Roy went up too.  They came down tonight.  I was sewing almost all day.  Mr Geddes called on his way to Hammond's Plains. Mrs B. finished her dress and has it on.  We baked.

January 7, 1893 - Saturday.  Rather windy.  Morrison getting wood nearly all day.  Had a letter fron Edith, and sent one to her too.  Had Boston Cream Potatoes for dinner.  Bub came home about nine o'clock at night.

January 8, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine cold day.  Roy not very well.  Has diarrhea.  None of us were up to Y.S.C.E. .  Fos came down after the meeting and he, Bub and Herb Higgins went up to the woods after tea.

January 9, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day.  A little colder.  Morrison intended going to F.J. Logan's today, but did not get off as S. Cox brought a grist of wheat this forenoon, and did not get away until after dinner.  Aunt Ann was here a little while after dinner.  We got the clothes washed and out in the forenoon, and the pantry and kitchen washed in the afternoon.

January 10, 1893 - Tuesday.  A stormy day.  A high wind.  Morrison was sick all night last night.  Was troubled with his stomach.  Howard Higgins was down cutting wood this forenoon.  He went home shortly after dinner.  Mr Higgins was down for buttermilk in the afternoon.  I finished Roy's coat today.  Mr Jonathan Campbell was buried today. Bertha I. Cox died, aged 25.  R.B. Smith, MD died at Lower Stewiake.

January 11, 1893 - Wednesday.  Quite a fine day.  Colder tonight.  D.M. went to F.J. Logan's for supplies.  Got a barrel of sugar and some molasses, also dishes etc,.  Then he went up to the shanty and has just got home.  It is nine o'clock.  Alice Proven was down to dinner and a while this afternoon.  John Blaikie was here to dinner.  He has left Aunt Eliza and is at J.W. Deyarmond's.    E. MacKenzie was after his grist, also little Andy called.  Howard Higgins was down to get his pung, and had to wait all the evening, as D.M. didn't get home.

January 12, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  A little cold.  D.M. did not feel quite so well today.  Howard Higgins was here this forenoon cutting wood, but went home right after dinner.  A.R. Higgins went to Riversdale.  He got our pung to go.  None of us went to Prayer Meeting.

January 13, 1893- Friday.  A fine day.  Just a light fall of snow last night.  Finished binding a quilt today.  Mrs Blaikie heard from Aunt Lucy today, and as she is not so well, Mrs B. and Uncle Sam Johnson are going to Truro tomorrow, if nothing prevents.  I drove Mrs B. up as far as Uncle Sam's tonight.  Melissa Graham went with me.  Allen Deyarmond came down a piece with us.  Abner Smith called today.  He and Bessie were en route for Smithfield.   J.T. and Bradford Hamilton, J.E. and E.B. Deyarmond  are spending the evening here.  A.R. Higgins here to dinner.

January 14, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  A little frosty tonight.  Had turnips, beans etc for dinner today.   In the afternoon, I baked a sweet cake, and a soda cake.  Also churned and made curds, helped How carry in wood, and picked up a keg of chips.  Charlie, Bub, Herb and Laura came down tonight.  Had a letter from  Sylvester - about the usual length.

January 15, 1893  - Sabbath.  A light snow falling.  Review of Sabbath School Lessons.  Mr Fraser up.  Morrison, Bub, Charlie and Fos went up.  Alden celebrated the occasion by burning one of Roy's boots,  or at least the verdict was pronounced against Alden, and circumstantial evidence points strongly to him  as the guilty one.  Fos and Laura went up to the shanty after service, Bub and Herb not until after tea.  Uncle John was here to tea.  Charlie did not go.

January 16, 1893 - Monday.  A pretty fine day.  Charlie went to Otterbrook to try to hire Gourley's engine, but did not get it.  I faced Bub's overalls, finished a pair of mittens for Charlie, also patched his pants.  He went up to the shanty about four o'clock.  Mrs Blaikie came back tonight.  Mrs Gould is better.  Jessie Gould came home today.  C. Proven was here all the evening.

January 17, 1893- Tuesday.  A beautiful day.  Roy's fourth birthday.  His grandma gave him a little cup and saucer.  Also, May Johnson sent him a doll.  D.M. went down to Otterbrook, and I went with him to Uncle George's and we were both there to dinner.  Quite a lot of grinding came today.  Albert Fisher had a grist here and he went up to the shanty  instead of Morrison and brought down a load of wood.  D. Crocker, and P. Grant had grists too.  Mrs Blaikie and I carried a barrel of water.

January 18, 1893-Wednesday. A rather rough day. Drifting.  Bradford Hamilton got the pung this morning and brought it back in the afternoon. Morrison was grinding this forenoon and after dinner he took some things up to the mill and brought down some wood to do tomorrow.  Ruby E. Graham and C. Proven were here a short time this afternoon.

January19, 1893 - Thursday.  A pretty warm day.  Not much sunshine.  D.M. went to Riversdale to meet Edith and Fred, and he was down to Truro.  They got home about eleven p.m.  Mrs Blaikie and Ida went down to J.W. Deyarmond's this morning and came back about the middle of the afternoon.  Mr and Mrs Higgins were here to spend the evening.  Mrs B. and I sat up for D.M., Fred and Edith who were cold and hungry.  We did not go to bed until after one o'clock.

January 20, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day.  Frostier tonight.  We put the clothes out this morning and brought them in at night.  Fred was up at his place this morning.  D.M. was grinding.  We made some candy, sewed some and knit some.  Fred went up to the mill and got a load of wood in the afternoon. 

January 21, 1893 - Saturday.  Not very cold and not very fine.  We were darning socks most of the day.  Aunt Ann and Duncan were here to spend the afternoon, and part of the evening.  We washed a few clothes.  Edith and I ironed in the forenoon.

January 22, 1893 - Sabbath.  A clear frosty day.  Fred went up to his place and kept a fire most of the day.  Edith and I went up to Y.S.C.E.   D.M. went up and stayed with Fred.   Bub, who came home last night, did not go;  as he and Mrs B. kept the children.

January 23, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day, after a very cold night.  Morrison went to Truro this morning with some part of the engine and has not got home yet.  We baked a small baking today.  Bub did not go up to the mill until this afternoon.  Mr and Mrs Higgins and Herb were here this evening.

January 24, 1893 - Tuesday.  D.M. did not get home last night, nor did he go to Truro yesterday.  Fos went, and Morrison went to H. Johnson's and then back to the shanty and, as Foster did not come home from Truro, he stayed all night and came home this morning.  Fred took his cow up this morning and came back before tea.  Edith and baby, Roy and I, went up to Mrs Higgins' to spend the day.  In the evening, Morrison and Fred came up too.  It is Mrs Higgins' forty-ninth birthday.  Mr and Mrs Adam Johnson came to Mr Higgins' before we left.  Papa came for Edith to go down to the Cove.  They started about half past nine.

January 25, 1893 - Wednesday.  Still soft.  A pleasant day.  Fred moved the rest of his household stuff up this morning.  D.M. and he  went up to the mill and Fred came down about four o'clock.   D.M. is not home yet.  Alex Sample and Robert Harrison had grists here today, and left them.   Mr Higgins had our pung to Cross Roads.

January 26, 1893 - Thursday.  Rather a rough day.  Snow drifting.  Fred and I did not go to the Cove today, as Bub was going to Truro to get a new crank for the engine.  I took him up to the shanty and then came home.  He went to Riversdale on the deal-teams.  Mr Higgins and Howard brought us a load of wood this afternoon.  Adam Johnson was in tonight to get his sugar.

January 27, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day but got colder towards night.  Fred and I went down to the Cove this morning.  We stayed to dinner and came home shortly after three o'clock.  Edith and baby Ralph came back.  We got our tea here, and Fred went home.  Then D.M.drove Edith and Ralph up about eight o'clock.   Quite a lot of grinding came today.

January, 28, 1893 - Saturday.  Fine and cold.  Made Roy a pair of pants, and finished Alden's dress.  Mrs R.S. Deyarmond called in the afternoon.

January 29, 1893 - Sabbath.  A little snowy.  Looking like rain.  Mrs B., Bub and I drove up to preaching.  Left the horse at Fred's.  Herb Higgins had our pung down to church. Mr Fraser preached from I Peter, IV, last three verses.

January 30, 1893 - Monday.  Soft this morning, but a cold wind.  A. Robb&Son's agent (K.J.Morrison) here to dinner.  Then he and D.M. went up to the mill.  Roy and I went up and spent the afternoon with Edith.  D.M. drove up after us in the evening.  So much grinding came in that he couldn't get up sooner.

January 31, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fairly fine day.  Morrison hauled water for us to wash this morning.  We got done washing before dinner. I washed the kitchen, pantry, hearth etc this afternoon.  D.M. went up to Fred's to help him get wood after dinner.  He did not get done, or rather, home, until now.   Bub went up to the mill this morning.

February 1, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Rather cold, but the wind fell.  Howard  Higgins and Morrison were getting wood this forenoon, and How was chopping in the afternoon.  Morrison took Roy down to Doctor Cox's to see what ailed his face after dinner.  The Doctor said it was exzema and gave him two boxes of salve to rub on it.

February 2, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Fred was down this morning, just a short time.  Fos came home last night and he and Herb Higgins went up to the woods this morning , or rather about half-past two.   Lucy and Lyman Johnson came down and made a short call this afternoon.  Bub came with them and took our team and went to Riversdale after the engine crank.  We ironed this forenoon, and quilted and churned in the afternoon.

February 3, 1893 - Friday.  Rather stormy.  Morrison went up to the woods before dinner, and did not get back until after eight o'clock at night.  We were scarce of wood and shivering over the fire-place.  D.M. soon got some cut when he came home.  Fred was down a few minutes this morning.

February 4, 1893 - Saturday.  Quite rough.  The sun shone but the wind drifted the snow round.  Fred was cutting wood at the door (for us) this forenoon, and Morrison was snaking it from the woods.  After dinner they both went up to get some wood for Fred, but as it was so rough, they only got one stick.  Morrison was back before dark.  Bub came home tonight.  We got our quilt out tonight.

February 5, 1893 - Sabbath.  Communion Day.  Quite frosty.  None of us were down, as the weather was so cold.  The night is very  cold.

February 6, 1893 - Monday.  A dreadfully cold night last night.  The weather moderated in the forenoon and it is quite comfortable tonight.  Bub went to Truro after belting.  H. Higgins here to dinner and afterwards, he and D.M. went up to Mr Higgins' and D.M. fixed their clock.  J. MacKennie and another man were over this afternoon.  I was just fixing up odds and ends today.

February 7, 1893 - Tuesday.  Quite a rain last night after the drifting and snow.  Laura and Charlie came down about eight o'clock last night, went up to Mr Higgins' and then back here, then back to the shanty, where they arrived about twelve.   Everett Deyarmond brought the horse and pung down this morning.  D.M., Alden and I were up to Fred's to dinner and tea.  Morrison was getting some hay from Fred, and taking up some beef - seventy-six pounds.  Fred cut D.M.'s hair.  We got back at ten minutes to six.  Bub is down and D.M. is going to take him up a piece.

February 8, 1893 - Wednesday.  A pretty cold night last night, but quite a moderate day today.  Papa, Johnnie and Janie came this morning just as we were at breakfast.  Papa and Johnnie went up to haul wood for Fred.  Janie stayed here all day, and she and I carried all the wood that was chopped, and water for me to wash a few things.   Ida was washing too.  Janie is here all night.  D.M. was down to F.J. Logan's etc., today.  Got a bag of salt, a barrel of flour for Fred,  a pair of boots for me, etc.

February 9, 1893 - Thursday.  Not so fine as yeaterday, or rather not so mild, more frost.  D.M., Janie, Roy and I  went up to Fred's and had dinner.  Papa and Johnnie were there too.  They are hauling wood for Fred.  They came down when we did and went home.  Janie stayed with Edith.  Mrs B. made bitter yeast and baked today.

February 10, 1893 - Friday.  A stormy day.  Quite warm.  A squall of snow came this forenoon, but it soon turned to rain and there was wind too.  Very rough out of doors.  Finished Ida's stockings and patched Roy's pants, and various odds and ends. 

February 11, 1893 - Saturday.  A warm day.  The ice is all round and it is very slippery.  We nearly all have colds.  Alden did not rest well at all last night.  Fred was down to dinner.  He got a fall on the ice last night, and hurt his head pretty badly.  Mr Higgins was here this forenoon, and Adam Johnson brought home the sleds.  Bub came home.  Howard was working here this afternoon.  Uncle John called too.  Some grinding came, and D.M. was grinding.

February 12, 1893 - Sabbath.  A beautifully fine day.  D.M. and I went to Y.S.C.E.   We called  at Fred's and Edith and Janie went up with us.  Herb Higgins went up to the shanty tonight.  Charlie and Laura went to Greenfield, or started to go.

February 13, 1893 - Monday.  Another fine day.  Nice and warm.  Morrison went up to the shanty this morning and is not coming home tonight.  Uncle John was here this morning and is back tonight.  He is going to stop a few days and help us get wood.  Little Andy is here tonight preaching.  Quite a lot of grinding came.  80 or 90 bushels of grain.  Was piecing patchwork most all day.

February 14, 1893 - Tuesday.  Stormy, drifting, etc.  But cleared off and it is a fine night.  A Pie Social in the School house, and a dance at Fred's. None of us were up except Uncle John.  Guess most of them were down from the shanty.  R. Graham brought the sleds home.  Fred was down and went up to Mr   Morrison got home about four o'clock this afternoon.  Bub went up this morning.

February 15 , 1893 - Wednesday.  A little snow fell this morning, but it was warm all day.   Smith Johnson was  here to dinner.  Was patching most all day.  Uncle John cutting wood on the other side of the brook all day. 

Februuary 16, 1893 - Thursday.  Quite fine, but frosty.  Mrs B. went over to C. Graham's this morning and stayed the day.  Fred was down this forenoon a while.  Mrs Higgins was here to dinner.  Janie came down after school, and Mrs B., Janie and I drove up to Prayer Meeting, and Janie did not come back.  Morrison and Enoch  were up to the mill in the afternoon.

February 17, 1893 - Friday.  Pretty cold and windy, but sunshiny.  Mrs B. drove over to Mrs G. Deyarmond's and got Edith's gander, then took it up to Fred's and brought Edith and Ralph down.   D.M. went up to the mill after dinner and Fred came back with him.  He and Edith were here to tea, and Morrison drove them home about eight o'clock.  Janie kept house for them.

February 18, 1893 - Saturday.  A stormy day.  Windy too.  Morrison hauled wood this forenoon.  He and Fred were down to F.J. Logan's in the afternoon.   We had a call from H.H. Ogilvie and Mr Morrison, the agent for A. Robb& Sons of Amherst.  The former presented me with three  No.4 sewing machine needles.  Was sewing at Roy's coat today.

Febraury 19, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Fos came home after we went to bed last night.  Charlie and Laura went to Mr Higgins'.  They were all here to tea.  Herb came too.  Mrs Blaikie, Uncle John and Morrison were at preaching.  Mrs G. Dickie died yesterday.  Funeral tomorrow morning.

February 20, 1893 - Monday.  Snowy, soft, rainy and windy today.  We couldn't wash.  Fred was down to grind his axe.  Morrison and Uncle John hauled two loads of wood this forenoon, but the weather got too stromy.J. McGill Johnson went to the woods this morning.  Baking today.  I made my aprons and put the pockets in Roy's coat.  Couldn't find the buttons.  It's a mystery where they've gone.

February 21, 1893 - Tuesday.  Snowing and drifting, clear at night though.  Edith's twenty-first birthday.  Found Roy's coat buttons this forenoon.  They were in the clean-clothes box, upstairs.  In the afternoon, D.M. went up to the mill, and I went up as far as Fred's.  Left Roy and Alden at home.  We both stayed to tea and got home about eight o'clock.  Ede cut out my wrapper.

February 22, 1893 - Wednesday.  Another stormy day.  Pretty rough this afternoon and evening.  Mrs Samuel Deyarmond, Fred, and  "Factotum" here to dinner.  Mrs B. and I made Morrison's overalls today.  Mrs Deyarmond went home between two and three o'clock.  We have an awful baking of bread now.  The yeast is wrong somehow, and its too stormy weather to go get new.   About thirty-five or forty bushels of grain came today. 

February 23, 1893 - Thursday.  Rather windy and cold.  Quite windy tonight.  We expected Mr Fraser, but as it was so cold he did not come.  Morrison went down to the store and got a barrel of flour for the shanty,  some dried apples, a bar of soap etc.  Then he hauled some wood afterward.  Mr Higgins was here a while in the afternoon. 

February 24, 1893 - Friday.  A nice day.  Quite warm.  Mr Higgins and Morrison went up to the shanty this morning.  Fred came down and took the gander up.   Uncle John went up to saw wood with Fred.  I was sewing at Alden's dresses etc.   Herb Higgins cut his leg and came home this afternoon.   Dave Deyarmond brought 5 1/2 pounds of butter for us.   Mr Higgins took his pork home.  Some we had borrowed before Christmas.

February 25, 1893 - Saturday.  A nice day.  A little windy in the forenoon, but fine in the afternoon.  Fred and D.M. went to the Cove this morning, and back about dark.   Mrs B. and Ida washed some things this morning, and I went up to see Edith after dinner.  Stayed a little while and then Janie and I came down with John Deyarmond.  Janie and Fred walked up after tea. Fred and Morrison had a day of it.

February 26, 1893 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  Bub came home last night and back again tonight.  D.M. and I went up to Christian Endeavour in the afternoon.  Herb Higgins, C. Cox, and Everett Deyarmond went up to the woods tonight.

February 27, 1893 - Monday.  Fine this morning, but it turned to a squall.  We washed fifteen shirt - kind, besides other garments, washed the floor and blacked the stove.  Also made a sheet for Roy's bed.  Morrison went up to the mill after dinner.  He got back just as we finished out tea.  Herb Higgins came back with him - sick with grippe or something like it.  All the other boys at Mr Higgins' have had it too.

February 28, 1893 - Tuesday.  Another beautiful day.  Quite warm.  We made Morrison another  pair of overalls today.  The others proved too large for him.  Noble Johnson was here to dinner.   About or nearly seventy bushels of oats or something came in today.  Fred was chopping poles today.

March 1, 1893 - Wednesday.  A snowy day.  Stormed nearly all day.   Robert Graham here to dinner.  Sara and Minnie Graham here a while this forenoon.  D.M. went to the Corner after dinner,  and was back along in the afternoon.  Got pork, beef, beans, a broom etc.  Uncle John started up to the shanty, but came back  just at tea time.  Janie is down all night as Edith and Fred are up to Mr S. Johnson's.

March 2, 1893 - Thursday.  Storming a little, but clear (almost) tonight.  Morrison went up to the shanty, to Riversdale, and I guess he must have gone to New Glasgow, as he is not home tonight.  Uncle John went up to the shanty this afternoon.  Papa and Nettie came up this afternoon about five o'clock, and have gone up to Fred's tonight.

March 3, 1893 -  Friday.  A fine day, only coldr than common.  Pretty frosty tonight.  Morrison got home a few minutes before twelve last night.  He had to wait on F.J. Logan at Riversdale, until the train came up from Truro.  We had all gone to bed.  He went up to the shanty this morning and got back about four o'clock this afternoon.  Messrs McKeen and Murdoch came with him.  They are making a pulley for their mill which is set down to saw Alex MacKay's logs.  They are stopping all night.  Papa and Nettie brought Edith and Ralph down this morning, and then they went home.  Fred began work at the mill today.

March 4, 1893 - Saturday.  A pretty fine day.  Messrs Murdoch and MacKeen and Morrison went up and fixed up their mill today.  Roy and I went up to Edith's with them.  Mrs Crockett came down too, and Ede got her mat out.  Fred, D.M., Bub and Fos came down after tea.    D.M., Bub, Roy and I came right home.  Fos, after a while.

March 5, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day, only a little cold.  Fos was up to Mrs Higgins' a while this forenoon.  Bub, Fos, Roy, D.M., Uncle John, and I were up to preaching in the afternoon.  The sermon was from Genesis VIII.  Fred kept Ralph, and Edith and Janie were at preaching.  Bub and Fred went up to the shanty after tea.

March 6, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day.  Rather a cold night last night.   Was patching and repairing all the forenoon,  and fussing over my dress all the afternoon.  D.M. was grinding.  Uncle John was down at F.J. Logan's this afternoon.  Got some supplies for the woods.  The children are boisterous tonight and I am worried about my dress.

March 7, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine forenoon but squally in the afternoon.  Morrison went up to the woods this morning after he had hauled water for us to wash.   We washed but did not get finished up until after dinner.  Mr and Mrs Fraser came up and called.  Uncle John was up at Fred's in the afternoon , sawing wood.  D.M. got  home about dusk.  Uncle John, a little before.

March 8, 1893 - Wednesday.  A warm day.  Fine too.  Uncle John and Morrison hauled some wood, and Morrison ground some.  Fos was down with a tallow cup that needed repairing, but went up again in a little while.  I was sewing at my dress most of the day.  Herb Higgins was down this afternoon.  Also Thomas Deyarmond had some wheat to grind.

March 9,1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Very fine weather for March.   We ironed this forenoon.   Mr Fraser and Roy C. Fraser went up to the mills visiting today, and down to Prayer Meeting tonight.   Morrison was up to the mill for a load of lumber.    We had some flour pancakes for tea.  Finished my dress.

March 10, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day too.  Slightly colder than yesterday.  Herb and Howard Higgins went up to the mill this morning, and D.M. took our bob-sleds and went too.  The children and I went up to Fred's and he (D.M.)  stopped to tea as he came down.  We got home about half-past seven.  Was knitting at Morrison's socks.  The Village church  was burned to ashes about ten o'clock tonight.

March 11, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Beautiful weather for March.  Elikam Creelman had a grist of oats to the mill this forenoon and told us about the fire of last night, as nearly as possible.  The fire is thought by most people to have been caused by  ashes gathered in the church.   Charles Proven came home yesterday.  He and J.W. Deyarmond called about one o'clock.  Uncle John went up to the shanty this morning and he, Bub, Charlie and Laura came home tonight.

March 12, 1893 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  None of us were to C.E.   The men and Laura went back to the woods tonight.  Mrs H. and How took Laura up.   Charlie, who was up to Higgins' all night, arrived about noon.

March 13, 1893  - Monday.  Soft this morning.  Raining pretty heavily tonight.   The third Anniversary of Edith's marriage.  We didn't wash as the water was not here.   Mrs B. was carding and spinning.  I put in a quilt and quilted a little, but  Alice Proven came after dinner, and so I knit this afternoon.  Robert Rutherford was here with a grist.  Uncle John went down to F.J. Logan's this morning and is not back yet.

March 14, 1893 - Tuesday.  Moist looking.  Still looks rainy.   Morrison went up to the mill this morning, taking up molasses, sugar, etc.  When he got there, Sandy MacLean was sick with sore throat and he took him home to Riversdale where his sister is laid up with being burned, too.   D.M. got home about five.   Was baking and quilting.   Fos came home.  They can't saw as the water is up.   Messrs Martin and Reuben Prest came over tonight after I was in bed.  They stayed all night.

March , 1893 - Wednesday.  Dark and misty.  The water is up round the mill, so they can't saw yet.  D.M., Fos, the Messrs Prest, and Fred  went up to the mill this morning;  They met J.T. Hamilton and Bub coming down, but Bub went back to the mill again.   The Messrs Prest bought the boiler and engine.  They are up to Mr Higgins' tonight.  Mrs Higgins and Amy were down almost all day, then Mr Higgins etc were here to tea; then they all went up tonight.  Fred bought a horse today.

March 16, 1893 - Thursday.  Colder than yesterday.  Slight squalls of snow.  Fred and Morrison went down to F.J. Logan's this morning, and home for dinner.  D.M. got some mat bottoms etc.   Then they went up to Fred's after a load of straw and Fred and Edith came down to tea.  We were quilting today.  Uncle John had rheumatism, and I am afflicted with it too.  Had a letter from Annie tonight.  It was very short.

March 17, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day, but a rather cold wind.  Mamma and Johnnie came up after Janie. They stayed here to dinner, then they, Roy, and I went up to Edith's.  Morrison went up to the mill.  Mamma, Johnnie and Janie went home about four o'clock.   Morrison, Roy and I about half-past five or six.  They sawed today.  The water was down.

March 18, 1893 - Saturday.  Rather a gray day.  Looked like rain once, but the weather looks more like snow tonight.  We got the quilt out this forenoon.  Morrison and Uncle John hauled wood this forenoon, and then Morrison went to the shanty after dinner.  Mrs Blaikie washed some and I knit some.  We got a Family-Herald tonight.

March 19, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day, but rather colder than usual.  No service in the school house.  Y.S.C.E. met, but none of us were there.  Mrs Blaikie drove Bub and Fos up as far as Uncle Sam's.  Leonard and May and baby were over.   They came yesterday and are going back on Monday if nothing prevents.  Fred drove down tonight and I went up and came back with Mrs B.

March 20, 1893 - Monday.  A fine warm day.  Thawing fast.  Uncle John left for Pictou this morning.  D.M. hauled water for us to wash.  We didn't get all the clothes out until after dinner.  We washed the floor too.  Edith and Fred were here to tea.  Ned Graham was getting the loan of the bob-sleds this morning.

March 21, 1893 - Tuesday.    A fine forenoon, a little cloudy in the afternoon, and a slight fall of snow at night.  Mrs George Deyarmond here to dinner.  She went away about three o'clock.   Morrison went up tothe shanty after dinner.  Fred went with him.  Hemmed a mat bottom and cut some rags.  We were baking bread.

March 22, 1893 - Wednesday.  Quite dark this morning, but it was a warm day.  Pretty cool tonight.  Colored rags today, or rather, this forenoon.  Ede and I put inthe mat after dinner.   She and Fred and Ralph were down to dinner. D.M. had gone up there after a load of hay, and they came back with him.  Ironed before tea.   W.F. Rutherford had a grist here this afternoon.  Am tired.  The children have the cold and are restless at night.

March 23, 1893 - Thursday.  A quite nice day.  Wind rather cold.  Morrison home until after dinner, then he went up to the mill, and got back a little after six.  Mrs Blaikie was up to Mr Higgins' to spend the afternoon.  I was trying to get a little hooked.

March 24, 1893 - Friday.  Dark; mist and some snow falling.  Morrison went up to the mill this morning  and was up all day.  Is not home yet.  Mrs B. spinning and carding.   I was trying to hook, but did not get along very well.   Was cutting mat rags this afternoon.  Made emptyings tonight.  

March 25, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  A thunderstorm last night.  Was hooking today.  We baked bread.   Morrison went up to the woods this afternoon.  He finished the hen-house this forenoon.  I swept the bedroom, front-room and hall this afternoon, and the chamber in the forenoon.

March 26, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Thawing.  None of the boys came home last night, as it was late when they finished sawing.   Rev. A.D. Gunn preached in the school house this afternoon.  Morrison and Mrs Blaikie were up.

March 27, 1893 - Monday.  A lovely day.  Very fine and warm.  We washed clothes, floors and cleaned out the entry.   Saw a flock of wild geese at tea time.  Morrison went up to the mill in the forenoon, and home a little before eight o'clock.

March 28, 1893 - Tuesday.  A cold day.  The wind quite chilly.  D.M. went up to the woods, and Alden and I went up to Fred's with him.  Mr and Mrs Higgins and Amy were there too.  We left the horse at Fred's, as he was so lame.  His foot is sore.

March 29, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  They moved down from the shanty this afternoon.  Bub is sawing up at Murdoch's mill.  Was hooking some today.

March 30, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine sunshiny day.  Fos went out to Johnson's this afternoon - to fire their engine.  Alice Proven called this afternoon, Fred, this morning.  J. McGill Johnson had a grist of wheat here today.

March 31, 1893 - Friday.  A rough, windy, snowy day.  D.M. made me a chair for the children today.  He and Fred intended going to the Corner, etc., but it was too stormy.   J.H. Graham and Henry Graham were here to tea.

January 1, 1893 - Sabbath.  A nice day.  Pretty fine.  Bub came down from the woods last night.  Charlie came down today.  Also Herb came last night.  Mrs B., Bub and I drove up to service.  The sermon was very  good, but I did not get so much interested as I would had the school house not been roasting hot.  It was from Ephesians IV.   Charlie went up to the woods, and also Herb.  Bub fed the geese up at Fred's and found his gander missing.

January 2, 1893 - Monday.  Rainy and windy.  A small freshet.  Bub walked up to the shanty this morning.  Morrison grinding all day.  The snow is almost gone.  This is Bub's birthday.

January 3, 1893 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine after the storm yesterday.  I intended going down to F.J. Logan's yestyerday, but as the weather was not favorable, I didn't, and D.M. went down today, and up to the shanty.    He got into the pond, or rather the horse did, coming home.  They had quite a time getting him out.  Mr Higgins, Howard and Ira were helping Morrison.  We sewed most of the day. 

January 4, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Was not very well today.  Was in bed most of the forenoon, but my appetite was not impaired, so I am not serious.  Ida and Mrs B. washed in the afternoon.  Morrison was up to the prayer meeting tonight.  Deacon Deyarmond was there.   We sat up until D.M.'s return.  Wrote to A.M.A. tonight.

January 5, 1893 - Thursday.  Colder last night.  Snowing tonight.  D.M. and Roy intended going up to the woods this morning, but Robert Rutherford came with a grist, and so they had to stay at home.  Mr R. , however, went up instead of D.M.  Bub came home about three o'clock and went to Cross Roads to get the horse shod, and also for files.  Was sewing at Roy's coat today.  Mrs Blaikie was sewing at her dress.  Had letters fron Edith, Janie and Mamma tonight.

January 6, 1893 - Friday.  A stormy windy day, but not very cold.  Bub did not go up to the mill until this morning, and Morrison and Roy went up too.  They came down tonight.  I was sewing almost all day.  Mr Geddes called on his way to Hammond's Plains. Mrs B. finished her dress and has it on.  We baked.

January 7, 1893 - Saturday.  Rather windy.  Morrison getting wood nearly all day.  Had a letter fron Edith, and sent one to her too.  Had Boston Cream Potatoes for dinner.  Bub came home about nine o'clock at night.

January 8, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine cold day.  Roy not very well.  Has diarrhea.  None of us were up to Y.S.C.E. .  Fos came down after the meeting and he, Bub and Herb Higgins went up to the woods after tea.

January 9, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day.  A little colder.  Morrison intended going to F.J. Logan's today, but did not get off as S. Cox brought a grist of wheat this forenoon, and did not get away until after dinner.  Aunt Ann was here a little while after dinner.  We got the clothes washed and out in the forenoon, and the pantry and kitchen washed in the afternoon.

January 10, 1893 - Tuesday.  A stormy day.  A high wind.  Morrison was sick all night last night.  Was troubled with his stomach.  Howard Higgins was down cutting wood this forenoon.  He went home shortly after dinner.  Mr Higgins was down for buttermilk in the afternoon.  I finished Roy's coat today.  Mr Jonathan Campbell was buried today. Bertha I. Cox died, aged 25.  R.B. Smith, MD died at Lower Stewiake.

January 11, 1893 - Wednesday.  Quite a fine day.  Colder tonight.  D.M. went to F.J. Logan's for supplies.  Got a barrel of sugar and some molasses, also dishes etc,.  Then he went up to the shanty and has just got home.  It is nine o'clock.  Alice Proven was down to dinner and a while this afternoon.  John Blaikie was here to dinner.  He has left Aunt Eliza and is at J.W. Deyarmond's.    E. MacKenzie was after his grist, also little Andy called.  Howard Higgins was down to get his pung, and had to wait all the evening, as D.M. didn't get home.

January 12, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  A little cold.  D.M. did not feel quite so well today.  Howard Higgins was here this forenoon cutting wood, but went home right after dinner.  A.R. Higgins went to Riversdale.  He got our pung to go.  None of us went to Prayer Meeting.

January 13, 1893- Friday.  A fine day.  Just a light fall of snow last night.  Finished binding a quilt today.  Mrs Blaikie heard from Aunt Lucy today, and as she is not so well, Mrs B. and Uncle Sam Johnson are going to Truro tomorrow, if nothing prevents.  I drove Mrs B. up as far as Uncle Sam's tonight.  Melissa Graham went with me.  Allen Deyarmond came down a piece with us.  Abner Smith called today.  He and Bessie were en route for Smithfield.   J.T. and Bradford Hamilton, J.E. and E.B. Deyarmond  are spending the evening here.  A.R. Higgins here to dinner.

January 14, 1893- Saturday.  A fine day.  A little frosty tonight.  Had turnips, beans etc for dinner today.   In the afternoon, I baked a sweet cake, and a soda cake.  Also churned and made curds, helped How carry in wood, and picked up a keg of chips.  Charlie, Bub, Herb and Laura came down tonight.  Had a letter from  Sylvester - about the usual length.

January 15, 1893  -Sabbath.  A light snow falling.  Review of Sabbath School Lessons.  Mr Fraser up.  Morrison, Bub, Charlie and Fos went up.  Alden celebrated the occasion by burning one of Roy's boots,  or at least the verdict was pronounced against Alden, and circumstantial evidence points strongly to him  as the guilty one.  Fos and Laura went up to the shanty after service, Bub and Herb not until after tea.  Uncle John was here to tea.  Charlie did not go.

January 16, 1893- Monday.  A pretty fine day.  Charlie went to Otterbrook to try to hire Gourley's engine, but did not get it.  I faced Bub's overalls, finished a pair of mittens for Charlie, also patched his pants.  He went up to the shanty about four o'clock.  Mrs Blaikie came back tonight.  Mrs Gould is better.  Jessie Gould came home today.  C. Proven was here all the evening.

January 17, 1893- Tuesday.  A beautiful day.  Roy's fourth birthday.  His grandma gave him a little cup and saucer.  Also, May Johnson sent him a doll.  D.M. went down to Otterbrook, and I went with him to Uncle George's and we were both there to dinner.  Quite a lot of grinding came today.  Albert Fisher had a grist here and he went up to the shanty  instead of Morrison and brought down a load of wood.  D. Crocker, and P. Grant had grists too.  Mrs Blaikie and I carried a barrel of water.

January 18, 1893-Wednesday. A rather rough day.Drifting.  Bradford Hamilton got the pung this morning and brought it back in the afternoon. Morrison was grinding this forenoon and after dinner he took some things up to the mill and brought down some wood to do tomorrow.  Ruby E. Graham and C. Proven were here a short time this afternoon.

January19, 1893 - Thursday.  A pretty warm day.  Not much sunshine.  D.M. went to Riversdale to meet Edith and Fred, and he was down to Truro.  They got home about eleven p.m.  Mrs Blaikie and Ida went down to J.W. Deyarmond's this morning and came back about the middle of the afternoon.  Mr and Mrs Higgins were here to spend the evening.  Mrs B. and I sat up for D.M., Fred and Edith who were cold and hungry.  We did not go to bed until after one o'clock.

January 20, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day.  Frostier tonight.  We put the clothes out this morning and brought them in at night.  Fred was up at his place this morning.  D.M. was grinding.  We made some candy, sewed some and knit some.  Fred went up to the mill and got a load of wood in the afternoon. 

January 21, 1893 - Saturday.  Not very cold and not very fine.  We were darning socks most of the day.  Aunt Ann and Duncan were here to spend the afternoon, and part of the evening.  We washed a few clothes.  Edith and I ironed in the forenoon.

January 22, 1893 - Sabbath.  A clear frosty day.  Fred went up to his place and kept a fire most of the day.  Edith and I went up to Y.S.C.E.   D.M. went up and stayed with Fred.   Bub, who came home last night, did not go;  as he and Mrs B. kept the children.

January 23, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day, after a very cold night.  Morrison went to Truro this morning with some part of the engine and has not got home yet.  We baked a small baking today.  Bub did not go up to the mill until this afternoon.  Mr and Mrs Higgins and Herb were here this evening.

January 24, 1893 - Tuesday.  D.M. did not get home last night, nor did he go to Truro yesterday.  Fos went, and Morrison went to H. Johnson's and then back to the shanty and, as Foster did not come home from Truro, he stayed all night and came home this morning.  Fred took his cow up this morning and came back before tea.  Edith and baby, Roy and I, went up to Mrs Higgins' to spend the day.  In the evening, Morrison and Fred came up too.  It is Mrs Higgins' forty-ninth birthday.  Mr and Mrs Adam Johnson came to Mr Higgins' before we left.  Papa came for Edith to go down to the Cove.  They started about half past nine.

January 25, 1893 - Wednesday.  Still soft.  A pleasant day.  Fred moved the rest of his household stuff up this morning.  D.M. and he  went up to the mill and Fred came down about four o'clock.   D.M. is not home yet.  Alex Sample and Robert Harrison had grists here today, and left them.   Mr Higgins had our pung to Cross Roads.

January 26, 1893 - Thursday.  Rather a rough day.  Snow drifting.  Fred and I did not go to the Cove today, as Bub was going to Truro to get a new crank for the engine.  I took him up to the shanty and then came home.  He went to Riversdale on the deal-teams.  Mr Higgins and Howard brought us a load of wood this afternoon.  Adam Johnson was in tonight to get his sugar.

January 27, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day but got colder towards night.  Fred and I went down to the Cove this morning.  We stayed to dinner and came home shortly after three o'clock.  Edith and baby Ralph came back.  We got our tea here, and Fred went home.  Then D.M.drove Edith and Ralph up about eight o'clock.   Quite a lot of grinding came today.

January, 28, 1893 - Saturday.  Fine and cold.  Made Roy a pair of pants, and finished Alden's dress.  Mrs R.S. Deyarmond called in the afternoon.

January 29, 1893 - Sabbath.  A little snowy.  Looking like rain.  Mrs B., Bub and I drove up to preaching.  Left the horse at Fred's.  Herb Higgins had our pung down to church. Mr Fraser preached from I Peter, IV, last three verses.

January 30, 1893 - Monday.  Soft this morning, but a cold wind.  A. Robb&Son's agent (K.J.Morrison) here to dinner.  Then he and D.M. went up to the mill.  Roy and I went up and spent the afternoon with Edith.  D.M. drove up after us in the evening.  So much grinding came in that he couldn't get up sooner.

January 31, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fairly fine day.  Morrison hauled water for us to wash this morning.  We got done washing before dinner. I washed the kitchen, pantry, hearth etc this afternoon.  D.M. went up to Fred's to help him get wood after dinner.  He did not get done, or rather, home, until now.   Bub went up to the mill this morning.

February 1, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Rather cold, but the wind fell.  Howard  Higgins and Morrison were getting wood this forenoon, and How was chopping in the afternoon.  Morrison took Roy down to Doctor Cox's to see what ailed his face after dinner.  The Doctor said it was exzema and gave him two boxes of salve to rub on it.

February 2, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Fred was down this morning, just a short time.  Fos came home last night and he and Herb Higgins went up to the woods this morning , or rather about half-past two.   Lucy and Lyman Johnson came down and made a short call this afternoon.  Bub came with them and took our team and went to Riversdale after the engine crank.  We ironed this forenoon, and quilted and churned in the afternoon.

February 3, 1893 - Friday.  Rather stormy.  Morrison went up to the woods before dinner, and did not get back until after eight o'clock at night.  We were scarce of wood and shivering over the fire-place.  D.M. soon got some cut when he came home.  Fred was down a few minutes this morning.

February 4, 1893 - Saturday.  Quite rough.  The sun shone but the wind drifted the snow round.  Fred was cutting wood at the door (for us) this forenoon, and Morrison was snaking it from the woods.  After dinner they both went up to get some wood for Fred, but as it was so rough, they only got one stick.  Morrison was back before dark.  Bub came home tonight.  We got our quilt out tonight.

February 5, 1893 - Sabbath.  Communion Day.  Quite frosty.  None of us were down, as the weather was so cold.  The night is very  cold.

February 6, 1893 - Monday.  A dreadfully cold night last night.  The weather moderated in the forenoon and it is quite comfortable tonight.  Bub went to Truro after belting.  H. Higgins here to dinner and afterwards, he and D.M. went up to Mr Higgins' and D.M. fixed their clock.  J. MacKennie and another man were over this afternoon.  I was just fixing up odds and ends today.

February 7, 1893 - Tuesday.  Quite a rain last night after the drifting and snow.  Laura and Charlie came down about eight o'clock last night, went up to Mr Higgins' and then back here, then back to the shanty, where they arrived about twelve.   Everett Deyarmond brought the horse and pung down this morning.  D.M., Alden and I were up to Fred's to dinner and tea.  Morrison was getting some hay from Fred, and taking up some beef - seventy-six pounds.  Fred cut D.M.'s hair.  We got back at ten minutes to six.  Bub is down and D.M. is going to take him up a piece.

February 8, 1893 - Wednesday.  A pretty cold night last night, but quite a moderate day today.  Papa, Johnnie and Janie came this morning just as we were at breakfast.  Papa and Johnnie went up to haul wood for Fred.  Janie stayed here all day, and she and I carried all the wood that was chopped, and water for me to wash a few things.   Ida was washing too.  Janie is here all night.  D.M. was down to F.J. Logan's etc., today.  Got a bag of salt, a barrel of flour for Fred,  a pair of boots for me, etc.

February 9, 1893 - Thursday.  Not so fine as yeaterday, or rather not so mild, more frost.  D.M., Janie, Roy and I  went up to Fred's and had dinner.  Papa and Johnnie were there too.  They are hauling wood for Fred.  They came down when we did and went home.  Janie stayed with Edith.  Mrs B. made bitter yeast and baked today.

February 10, 1893 - Friday.  A stormy day.  Quite warm.  A squall of snow came this forenoon, but it soon turned to rain and there was wind too.  Very rough out of doors.  Finished Ida's stockings and patched Roy's pants, and various odds and ends. 

February 11, 1893 - Saturday.  A warm day.  The ice is all round and it is very slippery.  We nearly all have colds.  Alden did not rest well at all last night.  Fred was down to dinner.  He got a fall on the ice last night, and hurt his head pretty badly.  Mr Higgins was here this forenoon, and Adam Johnson brought home the sleds.  Bub came home.  Howard was working here this afternoon.  Uncle John called too.  Some grinding came, and D.M. was grinding.

February 12, 1893 - Sabbath.  A beautifully fine day.  D.M. and I went to Y.S.C.E.   We called  at Fred's and Edith and Janie went up with us.  Herb Higgins went up to the shanty tonight.  Charlie and Laura went to Greenfield, or started to go.

February 13, 1893 - Monday.  Another fine day.  Nice and warm.  Morrison went up to the shanty this morning and is not coming home tonight.  Uncle John was here this morning and is back tonight.  He is going to stop a few days and help us get wood.  Little Andy is here tonight preaching.  Quite a lot of grinding came.  80 or 90 bushels of grain.  Was piecing patchwork most all day.

February 14, 1893 - Tuesday.  Stormy, drifting, etc.  But cleared off and it is a fine night.  A Pie Social in the School house, and a dance at Fred's. None of us were up except Uncle John.  Guess most of them were down from the shanty.  R. Graham brought the sleds home.  Fred was down and went up to Mr   Morrison got home about four o'clock this afternoon.  Bub went up this morning.

February 15 , 1893 - Wednesday.  A little snow fell this morning, but it was warm all day.   Smith Johnson was  here to dinner.  Was patching most all day.  Uncle John cutting wood on the other side of the brook all day. 

Februuary 16, 1893 - Thursday.  Quite fine, but frosty.  Mrs B. went over to C. Graham's this morning and stayed the day.  Fred was down this forenoon a while.  Mrs Higgins was here to dinner.  Janie came down after school, and Mrs B., Janie and I drove up to Prayer Meeting, and Janie did not come back.  Morrison and Enoch  were up to the mill in the afternoon.

February 17, 1893 - Friday.  Pretty cold and windy, but sunshiny.  Mrs B. drove over to Mrs G. Deyarmond's and got Edith's gander, then took it up to Fred's and brought Edith and Ralph down.   D.M. went up to the mill after dinner and Fred came back with him.  He and Edith were here to tea, and Morrison drove them home about eight o'clock.  Janie kept house for them.

February 18, 1893 - Saturday.  A stormy day.  Windy too.  Morrison hauled wood this forenoon.  He and Fred were down to F.J. Logan's in the afternoon.   We had a call from H.H. Ogilvie and Mr Morrison, the agent for A. Robb& Sons of Amherst.  The former presented me with three  No.4 sewing machine needles.  Was sewing at Roy's coat today.

Febraury 19, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Fos came home after we went to bed last night.  Charlie and Laura went to Mr Higgins'.  They were all here to tea.  Herb came too.  Mrs Blaikie, Uncle John and Morrison were at preaching.  Mrs G. Dickie died yesterday.  Funeral tomorrow morning.

February 20, 1893 - Monday.  Snowy, soft, rainy and windy today.  We couldn't wash.  Fred was down to grind his axe.  Morrison and Uncle John hauled two loads of wood this forenoon, but the weather got too stromy.J. McGill Johnson went to the woods this morning.  Baking today.  I made my aprons and put the pockets in Roy's coat.  Couldn't find the buttons.  It's a mystery where they've gone.

February 21, 1893 - Tuesday.  Snowing and drifting, clear at night though.  Edith's twenty-first birthday.  Found Roy's coat buttons this forenoon.  They were in the clean-clothes box, upstairs.  In the afternoon, D.M. went up to the mill, and I went up as far as Fred's.  Left Roy and Alden at home.  We both stayed to tea and got home about eight o'clock.  Ede cut out my wrapper.

February 22, 1893 - Wednesday.  Another stormy day.  Pretty rough this afternoon and evening.  Mrs Samuel Deyarmond, Fred, and  "Factotum" here to dinner.  Mrs B. and I made Morrison's overalls today.  Mrs Deyarmond went home between two and three o'clock.  We have an awful baking of bread now.  The yeast is wrong somehow, and its too stormy weather to go get new.   About thirty-five or forty bushels of grain came today. 

February 23, 1893 - Thursday.  Rather windy and cold.  Quite windy tonight.  We expected Mr Fraser, but as it was so cold he did not come.  Morrison went down to the store and got a barrel of flour for the shanty,  some dried apples, a bar of soap etc.  Then he hauled some wood afterward.  Mr Higgins was here a while in the afternoon. 

February 24, 1893 - Friday.  A nice day.  Quite warm.  Mr Higgins and Morrison went up to the shanty this morning.  Fred came down and took the gander up.   Uncle John went up to saw wood with Fred.  I was sewing at Alden's dresses etc.   Herb Higgins cut his leg and came home this afternoon.   Dave Deyarmond brought 5 1/2 pounds of butter for us.   Mr Higgins took his pork home.  Some we had borrowed before Christmas.

February 25, 1893 - Saturday.  A nice day.  A little windy in the forenoon, but fine in the afternoon.  Fred and D.M. went to the Cove this morning, and back about dark.   Mrs B. and Ida washed some things this morning, and I went up to see Edith after dinner.  Stayed a little while and then Janie and I came down with John Deyarmond.  Janie and Fred walked up after tea. Fred and Morrison had a day of it.

February 26, 1893 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  Bub came home last night and back again tonight.  D.M. and I went up to Christian Endeavour in the afternoon.  Herb Higgins, C. Cox, and Everett Deyarmond went up to the woods tonight.

February 27, 1893 - Monday.  Fine this morning, but it turned to a squall.  We washed fifteen shirt - kind, besides other garments, washed the floor and blacked the stove.  Also made a sheet for Roy's bed.  Morrison went up to the mill after dinner.  He got back just as we finished out tea.  Herb Higgins came back with him - sick with grippe or something like it.  All the other boys at Mr Higgins' have had it too.

February 28, 1893 - Tuesday.  Another beautiful day.  Quite warm.  We made Morrison another  pair of overalls today.  The others proved too large for him.  Noble Johnson was here to dinner.   About or nearly seventy bushels of oats or something came in today.  Fred was chopping poles today.

March 1, 1893 - Wednesday.  A snowy day.  Stormed nearly all day.   Robert Graham here to dinner.  Sara and Minnie Graham here a while this forenoon.  D.M. went to the Corner after dinner,  and was back along in the afternoon.  Got pork, beef, beans, a broom etc.  Uncle John started up to the shanty, but came back  just at tea time.  Janie is down all night as Edith and Fred are up to Mr S. Johnson's.

March 2, 1893 - Thursday.  Storming a little, but clear (almost) tonight.  Morrison went up to the shanty, to Riversdale, and I guess he must have gone to New Glasgow, as he is not home tonight.  Uncle John went up to the shanty this afternoon.  Papa and Nettie came up this afternoon about five o'clock, and have gone up to Fred's tonight.

March 3, 1893 -  Friday.  A fine day, only coldr than common.  Pretty frosty tonight.  Morrison got home a few minutes before twelve last night.  He had to wait on F.J. Logan at Riversdale, until the train came up from Truro.  We had all gone to bed.  He went up to the shanty this morning and got back about four o'clock this afternoon.  Messrs McKeen and Murdoch came with him.  They are making a pulley for their mill which is set down to saw Alex MacKay's logs.  They are stopping all night.  Papa and Nettie brought Edith and Ralph down this morning, and then they went home.  Fred began work at the mill today.

March 4, 1893 - Saturday.  A pretty fine day.  Messrs Murdoch and MacKeen and Morrison went up and fixed up their mill today.  Roy and I went up to Edith's with them.  Mrs Crockett came down too, and Ede got her mat out.  Fred, D.M., Bub and Fos came down after tea.    D.M., Bub, Roy and I came right home.  Fos, after a while.

March 5, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day, only a little cold.  Fos was up to Mrs Higgins' a while this forenoon.  Bub, Fos, Roy, D.M., Uncle John, and I were up to preaching in the afternoon.  The sermon was from Genesis VIII.  Fred kept Ralph, and Edith and Janie were at preaching.  Bub and Fred went up to the shanty after tea.

March 6, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day.  Rather a cold night last night.   Was patching and repairing all the forenoon,  and fussing over my dress all the afternoon.  D.M. was grinding.  Uncle John was down at F.J. Logan's this afternoon.  Got some supplies for the woods.  The children are boisterous tonight and I am worried about my dress.

March 7, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine forenoon but squally in the afternoon.  Morrison went up to the woods this morning after he had hauled water for us to wash.   We washed but did not get finished up until after dinner.  Mr and Mrs Fraser came up and called.  Uncle John was up at Fred's in the afternoon , sawing wood.  D.M. got  home about dusk.  Uncle John, a little before.

March 8, 1893 - Wednesday.  A warm day.  Fine too.  Uncle John and Morrison hauled some wood, and Morrison ground some.  Fos was down with a tallow cup that needed repairing, but went up again in a little while.  I was sewing at my dress most of the day.  Herb Higgins was down this afternoon.  Also Thomas Deyarmond had some wheat to grind.

March 9,1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Very fine weather for March.   We ironed this forenoon.   Mr Fraser and Roy C. Fraser went up to the mills visiting today, and down to Prayer Meeting tonight.   Morrison was up to the mill for a load of lumber.    We had some flour pancakes for tea.  Finished my dress.

March 10, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day too.  Slightly colder than yesterday.  Herb and Howard Higgins went up to the mill this morning, and D.M. took our bob-sleds and went too.  The children and I went up to Fred's and he (D.M.)  stopped to tea as he came down.  We got home about half-past seven.  Was knitting at Morrison's socks.  The Village church  was burned to ashes about ten o'clock tonight.

March 11, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Beautiful weather for March.  Elikam Creelman had a grist of oats to the mill this forenoon and told us about the fire of last night, as nearly as possible.  The fire is thought by most people to have been caused by  ashes gathered in the church.   Charles Proven came home yesterday.  He and J.W. Deyarmond called about one o'clock.  Uncle John went up to the shanty this morning and he, Bub, Charlie and Laura came home tonight.

March 12, 1893 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  None of us were to C.E.   The men and Laura went back to the woods tonight.  Mrs H. and How took Laura up.   Charlie, who was up to Higgins' all night, arrived about noon.

March 13, 1893  - Monday.  Soft this morning.  Raining pretty heavily tonight.   The third Anniversary of Edith's marriage.  We didn't wash as the water was not here.   Mrs B. was carding and spinning.  I put in a quilt and quilted a little, but  Alice Proven came after dinner, and so I knit this afternoon.  Robert Rutherford was here with a grist.  Uncle John went down to F.J. Logan's this morning and is not back yet.

March 14, 1893 - Tuesday.  Moist looking.  Still looks rainy.   Morrison went up to the mill this morning, taking up molasses, sugar, etc.  When he got there, Sandy MacLean was sick with sore throat and he took him home to Riversdale where his sister is laid up with being burned, too.   D.M. got home about five.   Was baking and quilting.   Fos came home.  They can't saw as the water is up.   Messrs Martin and Reuben Prest came over tonight after I was in bed.  They stayed all night.

March , 1893 - Wednesday.  Dark and misty.  The water is up round the mill, so they can't saw yet.  D.M., Fos, the Messrs Prest, and Fred  went up to the mill this morning;  They met J.T. Hamilton and Bub coming down, but Bub went back to the mill again.   The Messrs Prest bought the boiler and engine.  They are up to Mr Higgins' tonight.  Mrs Higgins and Amy were down almost all day, then Mr Higgins etc were here to tea; then they all went up tonight.  Fred bought a horse today.

March 16, 1893 - Thursday.  Colder than yesterday.  Slight squalls of snow.  Fred and Morrison went down to F.J. Logan's this morning, and home for dinner.  D.M. got some mat bottoms etc.   Then they went up to Fred's after a load of straw and Fred and Edith came down to tea.  We were quilting today.  Uncle John had rheumatism, and I am afflicted with it too.  Had a letter from Annie tonight.  It was very short.

March 17, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day, but a rather cold wind.  Mamma and Johnnie came up after Janie. They stayed here to dinner, then they, Roy, and I went up to Edith's.  Morrison went up to the mill.  Mamma, Johnnie and Janie went home about four o'clock.   Morrison, Roy and I about half-past five or six.  They sawed today.  The water was down.

March 18, 1893 - Saturday.  Rather a gray day.  Looked like rain once, but the weather looks more like snow tonight.  We got the quilt out this forenoon.  Morrison and Uncle John hauled wood this forenoon, and then Morrison went to the shanty after dinner.  Mrs Blaikie washed some and I knit some.  We got a Family-Herald tonight.

March 19, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day, but rather colder than usual.  No service in the school house.  Y.S.C.E. met, but none of us were there.  Mrs Blaikie drove Bub and Fos up as far as Uncle Sam's.  Leonard and May and baby were over.   They came yesterday and are going back on Monday if nothing prevents.  Fred drove down tonight and I went up and came back with Mrs B.

March 20, 1893 - Monday.  A fine warm day.  Thawing fast.  Uncle John left for Pictou this morning.  D.M. hauled water for us to wash.  We didn't get all the clothes out until after dinner.  We washed the floor too.  Edith and Fred were here to tea.  Ned Graham was getting the loan of the bob-sleds this morning.

March 21, 1893 - Tuesday.    A fine forenoon, a little cloudy in the afternoon, and a slight fall of snow at night.  Mrs George Deyarmond here to dinner.  She went away about three o'clock.   Morrison went up tothe shanty after dinner.  Fred went with him.  Hemmed a mat bottom and cut some rags.  We were baking bread.

March 22, 1893 - Wednesday.  Quite dark this morning, but it was a warm day.  Pretty cool tonight.  Colored rags today, or rather, this forenoon.  Ede and I put inthe mat after dinner.   She and Fred and Ralph were down to dinner. D.M. had gone up there after a load of hay, and they came back with him.  Ironed before tea.   W.F. Rutherford had a grist here this afternoon.  Am tired.  The children have the cold and are restless at night.

March 23, 1893 - Thursday.  A quite nice day.  Wind rather cold.  Morrison home until after dinner, then he went up to the mill, and got back a little after six.  Mrs Blaikie was up to Mr Higgins' to spend the afternoon.  I was trying to get a little hooked.

March 24, 1893 - Friday.  Dark; mist and some snow falling.  Morrison went up to the mill this morning  and was up all day.  Is not home yet.  Mrs B. spinning and carding.   I was trying to hook, but did not get along very well.   Was cutting mat rags this afternoon.  Made emptyings tonight.  

March 25, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  A thunderstorm last night.  Was hooking today.  We baked bread.   Morrison went up to the woods this afternoon.  He finished the hen-house this forenoon.  I swept the bedroom, front-room and hall this afternoon, and the chamber in the forenoon.

March 26, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Thawing.  None of the boys came home last night, as it was late when they finished sawing.   Rev. A.D. Gunn preached in the school house this afternoon.  Morrison and Mrs Blaikie were up.

March 27, 1893 - Monday.  A lovely day.  Very fine and warm.  We washed clothes, floors and cleaned out the entry.   Saw a flock of wild geese at tea time.  Morrison went up to the mill in the forenoon, and home a little before eight o'clock.

March 28, 1893 - Tuesday.  A cold day.  The wind quite chilly.  D.M. went up to the woods, and Alden and I went up to Fred's with him.  Mr and Mrs Higgins and Amy were there too.  We left the horse at Fred's, as he was so lame.  His foot is sore.

March 29, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  They moved down from the shanty this afternoon.  Bub is sawing up at Murdoch's mill.  Was hooking some today.

March 30, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine sunshiny day.  Fos went out to Johnson's this afternoon - to fire their engine.  Alice Proven called this afternoon, Fred, this morning.  J. McGill Johnson had a grist of wheat here today.

March 31, 1893 - Friday.  A rough, windy, snowy day.  D.M. made me a chair for the children today.  He and Fred intended going to the Corner, etc., but it was too stormy.   J.H. Graham and Henry Graham were here to tea.

April 1, 1893 - Saturday.  Quite a storm last night, but finer today.  Thawing fast.   Uncle Charlie here to dinner.  After dinner, Fred and Morrison went down to the Village, Corner, etc.   D.M. got me a wash-basin, (paper).  He got a thermometer and some stocking legs.   Was hooking etc today. Laura Higgins called tonight.

April 2, 1893 - Sabbath (Easter) - A lovely day.  No Y.P.S.C.E. at the school house.   D.M. and Mrs B. were up, but they stayed at Fred's for tea.

April 3, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day, but cold wind.  We didn't wash today as the horse was engaged, and Morrison had grinding to do.  After dinner, Mrs Blaikie and I went up to Uncle Charlie's for a little while.  We called at Enoch's as we came home.  There is a dance at Fred's tonight.  Cal and Charlie have gone.  Cal was here to dinner.   Bub went back to Murdoch's mill this morning.

April 4, 1893 - Tuesday.  Dark and rainy toward night.  Raining hard now.  Morrison went up to Mr Murdoch's mill this morning, and back this afternoon.  Bub did not come back.  Was hooking most all day.  Charlie at home.  Two grists came.

April 5, 1893 - Wednesday.  A small freshet this morning.  Quite a heavy rain (in showers) last night.  Fred and A.R. Higgins here to dinner.  Edith and baby intended coming, but  the state of the roads did not permit.  Alden has a bad cough.  P.S. Hamilton and J.W. Deyarmond were here a while.

April 6, 1893 - Thursday.  Cold and windy but sunshiny.  Edith and Fred and Ralph were down today.   Their cow calved this morning.   Henry Johnson had some smashing here.  Also Alex Sample.  We were hooking all day.  Fred and Morrison moved the beds upstairs, and ours down.

April 7, 1893 - Friday.  Very much like yesterday, only not so cold.  Fred was down in the morning , and Mrs Blaikie went up with him.  After dinner, Mr Blaikie and Ida went up too.   J.A. Fulton, R.S. Deyarmond, and P.S. Hamilton were in this afternoon.   Jim Alex stayed to tea.  Herb Higgins and Charlie went out to Cameron's camp this morning.  Bub and Morrison were making sap-troughs this forenoon, and Bub was this afternoon.    This is Johnnie's fifteenth birthday. 

April 8, 1893 - Saturday.  Quite a variety of weather today.  Snow, rain and hail, also wind; and a thunder storm about one or two o'clock tonight.  C. Proven was down this forenoon, and  Morrison and Charlie went up with him to turn pevy handles.  D.M. stayed to dinner, but Charlie and Herb Higgins came back here for dinner.  Was hooking all day.

April 9, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Bub, Mr Blaikie and I at home.  Roy went up to the school house to preaching.  Mr Higgins and Laura were here on their way up.  Bub's legs are pretty sore;  it hurts him to walk.  Roy and D.M. stayed at Fred's to tea.

April 10, 1893 -  Monday.  A fine day, but cool tonight.  Ida was not well.   The boys carried water for us to wash.  We washed a large washing today; also the pantry and kitchen.   Washed a collection of mat rags.  Morrison cut a stovepipe-hole in the front room.   Ed Hamilton had some smashing here.  Bub tapped eight maple trees this afternoon.

April 11, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Only the wind is cold.  Morrison set up the stove - McGinty - today.   It makes the front room quite warm.   We were hooking, churning, and ironing today.  Mixed the bread tonight.   Fred was at Riversdale yesterday and today too.  Morrison was up there this morning.   Bub tapped a few more trees today, but they didn't run very well.

April 12, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Freezing tonight.  We hooked this forenoon and a part of the afternoon.   Mrs Higgins was down cutting out a pair of pants for Charlie.   Laura was down after supper.   Fos and Cal came along this afternoon, and Cal cut his foot, splitting wood.   D.M. and I walked up to Fred's after tea, and got back about half past eight.   Mrs A. Francis died on Monday, April 10, 1893.

April 13, 1893- Thursday.   A fine warm day.  A good sap day.  Fos and D.M. went up to Fred's this forenoon, and back about half past two.   Fred is working with F.J. Logan.  Bub and Charlie were boiling sap this afternoon, and Bub is there yet.  Morrison is going to help him carry it up now.   Fos went to Prayer Meeting.   Mrs Higgins was here stitching this afternoon. We got the mat out this morning.   Mrs B. down to P.S. Hamilton's this afternoon.

April 14, 1893 - Friday.   A dark forenoon, but finer towards night, only cold wind.  We were boiling down sap, making maple wax, sugar etc.  The first wax I ever saw.   Fos went away this forenoon.  F.J. Logan is preparing for driving.  He is boarding at Fred's now.

April 15, 1893 - Saturday.  A cold, raw, windy day.  Mrs B. was up to C. Proven's this afternoon.  Morrison was down to the store.  He got a piece of cheese.   Was just mending, churning and making bread today.  H.H. Ogilvie had a grist of wheat here this forenoon.

April 16, 1893 -  Sabbath.  No preaching.  Did not feel very well today.  Guess I must be taking the grippe.

April 17, 1893 - Monday.  A cold day.  Rather windy, but sunshine.  Not feeling very well, but Morrison, Roy and I went up to Fred's in the afternoon, and stopped to tea.  Morrison got his finger nicked and the skin of the knuckle broken just as we were starting.  P.W. Graham was here to tea.

April 18, 1893- Tuesday.  Quite a snowstorm.  The ground was white this morning.  James and Janet Graham had a daughter born early this morning.  Mrs Blaikie, Mrs E. Fulton, and Mrs C. Graham were there.  Mrs B. got back before breakfast.    Morrison took sick, also Roy.

April 19 -23, 1893 - Wednesday to Sabbath - Most of us sick with grippe.  Quite a hospital here and at Mr Higgins'.  None of us have much appetite or anything else.   Had a letter form Annie Archibald on Thursday.  We got our Star Almanac on Saturday.  Edith, Mr Murdoch, and Geordie MacKay were in on Sabbath. Also Alice Proven and Annie M. Crockett.

April 24, 1893 - Monday.  Rather cold but sunshine.  Of course we did not wash.  Morrison is not much better and my head is bad.   Mr B. is getting some better.  Ida is about well.  Darby is not much better yet.

April 25, 1893 - Tuesday.  Quite a cold wind.  My head is pretty bad.  James Graham called in.  He had a grist here.  Morrison not any better. Laura Higgins in tonight.  She had company home.

April 26, 1893 - Wednesday.  A cold wintry day.  Snow squalls all day.   Quite a lot of snow on the ground tonight.   Uncle John didn't get up until almost dinner time today.  We are all in a fair way of recovery now, except D.M.   He mends very slowly.     Charlie was not driving this afternoon.

April 27, 1893 - Thursday.  Quite cold this morning, but the sun soon melted the snow, and except the cold wind, it was a pleasant day.   Mrs Blaikie went down to J.W. Deyarmond's to dinner.  Charlie was not driving today. I made a bread and rice pudding.  E. MacKenzie was here with a grist and to dinner.  Felt a lot better.  D.M. better - some.  Alice Proven was up to Mr Higgins' to dinner.  Finished a pair of socks etc.

April 28, 1893 - Friday.  A darkish day with a chilly wind.   They were stream-driving up the east branch today.  Morrison some better.  Roy is not so well. His ear is gathering and is quite painful.   P.S. Hamilton was at the sluice and here to dinner.  Bub boiling sap this afternoon.

April 29, 1893 - Saturday.  A nice day.  Quite warm.  D.M. went down to the Village but did not see Doctor Cox as he was on his rounds.  Got home about nine.   Edith and Fred and Ralph were here to tea.  They came over the foot-bridge about four o'clock, just as I went over for the mail. Fos came in from Johnson's today.  Byde came down with him.

April 30, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Quite warm.  Roy pretty bad yet.  His ear gathered and is running.   The classes formed for Sabbath School today.   Mrs Blaikie was up.  None of the rest of us were.  J.W., Bert, and John Deyarmond were in this afternoon.  Had a pretty good sleep this afternoon, when I woke, Roy was crying with earache, and D.M. was heating cloths for it.

May 1, 1893 - Monday.  A fine warm day.  We washed this forenoon, but did not feel equal to washing the floor.  Uncle John left for South Branch, Musquodoboit, etc after dinner.  Laura Higgins, J.W. and Everett Deyarmond here to tea.   Fred was down a while this afternoon.   Bub was away after hay - to Robt. Brown's.  D.M. was up to C. Proven's after buttermilk this afternoon.

May 2, 1893 - Tuesday.  A warm day.  Not much sunshine though.   We were cutting mat rags this forenoon.   Tom was lame and Morrison and I did not go up to Fred's.  We had soup for dinner.  Mrs B. went up to Enoch Fulton's to tea.  I ironed and hemmed a mat-bottom this afternoon.  P.S. Hamilton here to tea.

May 3, 1893 - Wednesday.  A pretty warm day, but not very sunshiny.  We put in our mat this forenoon,got along hooking very well.  D.M. down to S. Cox's this forenoon, and back to dinner;  then he and Bub went up to Fred's after some stuff.  Charlie was on the Drive all day, and is down to F.J. Logan's tonight.  My teeth were aching this afternoon, and are grumbling tonight.

May 4, 1893 - Thursday.  Dark, a cold wind.  Charlie was stream-driving in the afternoon.  Laura Higgins was down this forenoon a while.  She went to Mr Samuel Johnson's to work today.   Was washing some this forenoon.   We were not very well last night.  D.M. went down to the Corner, S.Cox's, etc tonight.  He and Bub plowed some.

May 5, 1893 - Friday.  A nice rain last night, and a fine warm day today.  Bub and Morrison were plowing this afternoon.  Charlie was driving today.  We hooked some today.   It was one of the trying days to me.

May 6, 1893 - Saturday.  Dark today, but pretty warm.  We hooked until ablut half past three o'clock.  Were baking bread.  Charlie and P.S. Hamilton were slucing at  the pond all day.   They were here to dinner and tea.  Mrs Higgins and Amy were down a while this afternoon.   D.M. and I were up at Fred's a little while after tea tonight.

May 7, 1893 - Sabbath.  Quite a fine day, only squalls of snow and rain.  The wind was blowing some.  Sabbath School began today at two o'clock.  Mr Fraser preached in the School House at three.  Morrison and I drove up to Fred's and D.M. went to service, and I stayed with Edith who came home from Sabbath School for Fred to go to Preaching.  Then we stopped to tea, and did not get home until dusk.

May 8, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day.  We did not wash today as we were out of soap.   Were hooking most of the day.  Baked Gingersnaps and Mrs Blaikie put away the tea.  After supper I went up to C. Proven's to get some eggs  to set a hen.  But was not successful in getting eggs.  Alice gave me some cornmeal.   Charlie was on the drive this afternoon.   C. Proven, D.M., and Bub were up to the East Branch after dinner.

May 9, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine warm day.  They were stream-driving all day.  P.S. Hamilton and Charlie were at the sluice.  They were here to dinner and tea.  We were hooking allday.   Mrs Blaikie went on another egg-hunt tonight, and got eleven.  Herb and Howard Higgins are here tonight.

May 10, 1893- Wednesday.  Quite warm.  Not so sunshiny as common.  Bub and Morrison were down to the Village, Corner, etc.  They got cloth (flannelette, factory etc).  Bub got a suit of clothes.  Charlie was not on the Drive today.  Edith and Fred came down this morning.   Fred went home then came back for Ede, as Alice Logan and F.J. MacKay were there.  We got the mat out this forenoon.  Did not feel very well this afternoon.  Mrs B. set a hen tonight.

May 11,1893 - Thursday.  A lovely day.  Pretty warm.  Mrs B. and Ida went over to Mr George Deyarmond's this morning, but Mr and Mrs Deyarmond had both gone to Truro, so they got some soap and came home.  Was sewing today.  Geordie Graham had some smashing here for F.F. Creelman.  Fult was working at the mill - dam up at Fred's today.  Charlie was not on the Drive.  He and Herb and How were up to Prayer Meeting.

May , 1893 - Friday.  A fine warm day.  Mrs Blaikie not very well.  I finished a pair of pants for Roy.  Bub and Morrison put in some peas today.   Charlie was on the Drive this afternoon.  They worked at East Branch.

May 13, 1893 - Saturday.  Windy all day.  Rainy tonight.   Fred was down this morning and got the loan of the plough.   Charlie went up with him.  This afternoon, Ernie Higgins came down after Mrs B.  to go up and put a blister on Howard's leg.  Uncle John arrived this forenoon.   Bub went down to William Hamilton's after potatoes today.  he was at Cox Bros. Store, too; and got some sugar etc.  They burnt the piles of rubbish today.

May 14, 1893 - Sabbath.  A shower in the night and dark weather today.  None of us were up to Sabbath School.  Finiahed reading "Fern's Hollow" aloud today, and read "The Old Church Door" , and began "The Fowls of the Air".

May 15, 1893 - Monday.  Showery last night, and one or two showers today.  Dark all day.  Mrs B. redd up and swept the chamber today.  Bub and Morrison carried water, set out rhubarb, pruned apple trees and so on all day.   Charlie went to help Herb Higgins hunt up their cow;  they got her from Ashmore Brown and brought her home on Saturday.  She ran off through the woods yesterday.

May 16, 1893 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  We washed this forenoon.  Did not get done until after dinner, and made emptyings too.  Got the clothes dried and in tonight.  Charlie and Morrison were down to C.C. Cox's and F.J. Logan's this forenoon.  Charlie McMullen lost his little girl - Minnie - on Saturday, May 13.   She was buried on Monday.  Bub put in some potatoes.   D.M. got onions and they planted them.

May 17, 1893 - Wednesday.  Dark and drizzly tonight.  Charlie was driving today.  Bub and Uncle John went fishing this afternoon and haven't returned yet.   Fos came home at noon.  Mrs B. washed part of the chamber today.  Morrison swept down the front room.  I washed the windows, doors and stains, and we balcked the stove and pipe.  We baked bread this afternoon. Bub and Uncle John have arrived.  It is nine o'clock.

May 18, 1893 - Thursday.  Dark this morning but fine in the afternoon.  Showery tonight.  Mrs B. was washing for Fos this forenoon, and I was washing the floor of the front room.   Was almost exhausted when I got done.  Had trout for dinner.  We just knit in the afternoon.  After tea, Mtrs B. went down to J.W,. Deyarmond's;  Charlie and Fos were up to Prayer Meeting.  Had a letter from Susie Walter tonight, also papers.

May 19, 1893- Friday.  A dark day.  Pretty wet sometimes.  Did not feel very well this forenoon, but better now.  Mended a pair of pants for Morrison and knit a little this afternoon.  Charlie went down along since dinner.   Bub, D.M. and Uncle John were working at a cart body.  Morrison was up to C. Proven's to dinner.  We boiled the last of the molasses sugar tonighht.

May 20, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Mrs Blaikie and Bub washed bed clothes at the brook.  Bub was up to Fred's after the washing machine etc. last Thursday night  I washed a little at the house and got dinner.  We were baking bread again as we had a card from the Messrs Prest that they were coming after the engine on Monday.  D.M., Alden and I were up at Edith's tonight.  On the way down we met Mr and Mrs Will Graham who told us that Mary Fulton was poorly.  We called to see her, and found her pretty bad.  She is wasted to a shadow.

May 21, 1893 - Sabbath.  Another fine day.  Mrs B. went up to Mr Fulton's this forenoon to see Mary.  She is pretty much the same - very short of breath.  D.M., Roy, Mrs B., Bub, Fos, and Uncle John went up to preaching.

May 22, 1893 - Monday.  Fine as usual.  Mrs Higgins was down a little while today, and she and Mrs B. went up to see Mary Fulton, who is not mending.   Messrs Martin, Reuben and Ad. Prest came tonight.  The first went up to Fred's, Reuben stopped here, and Ad.  went up to Mr Higgins'. 

May 23, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine day again.  The Prests went home about half past ten.  Charlie went too.    Mrs Higgins and Amy were down to dinner.  We baked today.  Aunt Ann was here a little while this afternoon, but Andrew Dickie came after her and she went home.  Uncle John was fencing the horse pasture.   Fred was down after the plough and harrow.  I sent Edith's hat home to her.

May 24, 1893 - Wednesday.  Again it has been fine but the weather looked very much like rain sometimes today.  Mrs Blaikie washed Bub's clothes at the brook this forenoon,  and Morrison, Fos and I washed a double blanket, a white blanket, and our dirty clothes for the week in the afternoon.  The washing machine runs by water.  Morrison caught three gaspereaux in the brook behind the mill this afternoon.  Bub and I put in eight rows of carrots since tea.  We shingled Alden's hair today.  The first time.

May 25, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Quite a wind.  Mrs Blaikie was at the brook washing all the forenoon.  I didn't do much but get dinner.  We had gaspereaux and a beef stew.  After dinner, Roy and I went up to Fred's with Fred, who was down;  we stayed the afternoon.  Morrison came up to tea, and Fred drove us home.

May 26, 1893 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Fos and Morrison were down to the Village this forenoon.  They got molasses, oatmeal, lard, sugar, a vegetable dish etc.  D.M. was at Dr Cox's and got some medicine for bronchitis.  he is up to Mr Higgins' now.   Roy and Alden are with him.   Mrs Crockett was here to dinner.  She and Mrs B. went up to C. Proven's and stopped to tea.  Mrs C. and I hemmed, or rather, bound my quilt.

May 27,1893 - Saturday.  A fine day, but rather windy.  Mrs Blaikie and Bub went up to Uncle Jim's this morning, and took Aunt Esther two fresh gaspereaux.  They brought the dog - Prince - home with them.   Fos went to Smithfield with Bert Deyarmond.  D.M. and I washed the comfort this afternoon.  I churned, and Mrs B. and I ironed after tea.  J.Alex Fulton is down just now.  He is shaving.

May 28, 1893 - Sabbath.  Rather dark.  A few spatters of rain.  No preaching in the School house.  None of us were up to Sabbath School.  Howard Higgins, also Ira, got our road-cart to go down to Dr. Cox's.  How got a tooth out.  James Graham took Ruby down too.  She has erysipelas in her foot.  Fos got home.

May 29, 1893 - Monday.  Dark looking this morning, but it turned out to be a fine day.   Mrs Blaikie, Ida and Roy  went over to George Deyarmond's this morning and back after tea.  Was baking a cake, also a short cake.  Alfred Johnson here to dinner.

May 30, 1893 - Tuesday.  Was a pretty fine day.  They were setting up the turning-lathe in the mill.  Bella Hamilton was in tonight and she and Mrs B. went up to see Mary Fulton.  She is about the same.  We had an all-over wash tonight - D.M., children and I.  Made emptyings tonight.

May 31, 1893 - Wednesday.   A fine day.  Quite a fire in the woods.  Just swept etc this forenoon.  Mrs B. was baking.  After dinner, Uncle John, Morrison and I went to the brook and washed until five o'clock.  Am tired tonight.   Uncle John and Bub went up to Fred's tonight.  Mary M. Fulton died at a quarter to ten tonight.

June 1, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine hot day.   The fires ran badly.  We put up the ashes and began making soap today, or rather, Uncle John and Bub put up the ashes.  Brought in the clothes tonight.  Mrs Blaikie was up to Enoch Fulton's this morning.    The funeral is at three o'clock tomorrow.   Mary died happy.  She was sensible to the end.  Bub, Fos and Morrison went through the woods to Fred's this forenoon.

June 2, 1893 - Friday.  Another fine day.  A little cloudy.  Fires still running.  We did not quite finish making soap.  Mrs Blaikie, Mr B. and Roy were at the funeral;  Morrison and Fos intended going, but when they got up, all the men (or nearly all) were keeping watch over the fire;  and they went too.   Uncle John stayed at home.  J.Alex Fulton was here this morning.  There was not a very large funeral.    They put in the beans and cucumbers today.

June 3, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  The fire did not run much today.  Fred had a frolic - clearing up the hill over the brook.  They cleared quite a lot.  D.M. and children and I went up to see Ede about four o'clock, and got home before dark.   We washed a large washing at the brook this forenoon.

June 4, 1893 - Sabbath.  Looked dark today, and there were two showers in the afternoon.  They all went off to service in the School House except Bub, Fos,I and Alden.  Bub and Fos were up to Mr Higgins' watching the fire.

June 5, 1893 - Monday.  Still looking dark, very hot and sultry.  They were stream driving today.   Fos was on the drive.  Bub was down to Cox's this afternoon.  Mrs Higgins was down to get her sheep-shears sharpened.  Also John Deyarmond here to tea.

June 6, 1893 - Tuesday.  Dark, cooler tonight.  The Bates' were here to dinner.  They were after the water-wheel.  Mr Bates and his two sons, George and Thomas.   They were ploughing a little bit tonight.  Mrs Blaikie cleaned the back entry this forenoon; and she and I cleaned the pantry and cellar-way after dinner.   We baked the first baking of bought flour that we have had since last November.  Fos was stream-driving today.  Lelia Logan and George Archibald were married at three o'clock this afternoon.

June 7, 1893 - Wednesday.  Rather dark looking this forenoon, but the weather cleared after dinner, and it was very hot and sultry all afternoon.  Bub and Mrs B. intended going down to the Village this afternoon, but they couldn't get a wagon;  so Bub and Uncle John put in some potatoes.  Morrison finished the little bedstead today.

June 8, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine warm day.  Mrs B. and Bub went to the Village this morning. They stopped at J. Kennedy's and at Mr and Mrs Miller's a while, and got home shortly after tea.  Uncle John went fishing and didn't get back until almost nine o'clock.  He  hadn't got his tea.   Edith , Fred and Ralph were down to dinner.  D.M. and Fred went up and filled the little bed tick after dinner.  Mrs B. had news from Charlie and from Mr Geddes.

June 9, 1893 - Friday.  A nice fine day.  Didn't do much this day only fuss around.   Have quite a cold in my head.  Was patching this forenoon.  Morrison and the children went up to Uncle Jim Johnson's this afternoon. Frank Fulton was here this afternoon.   Mrs B. and Ida are washing a little at the brook.

June 10,1893 - Saturday. A rainy day.  Sacrament Saturday.  Mrs Blaikie not well.  We baked today.  Had nine loaves.

June 11, 1893 - Sabbath.  Looked dark, but it turned out to be a fine hot day.  Bub and Morrison were down to church.  Took a walk with Roy and Alden this forenoon.

June 12, 1893 - Monday.  A fine hot day.  Morrison went down to F.J. Logan's this morning, and before he got home, he met Fred going for Dr. Cox for me.  Bub went up to Fred's and over after Aunt Ann.  But baby was born before anyone got here.  Was pretty sick.  Dr. Cox came about two o'clock.  Morrison took Aunt Ann home at night and went up for Mrs Crockett.  Charlie came home in the night.

June 13, 1893 - Tuesday.  Still hot and fine.   W.F.M.S. formed.  I can't remember much about these days, as it is the twenty-fourth now.  I know it wasn't so hot after Tuesday, and baby was good after the first night.  Mrs Crockett went home on Wednesday.  Then on Thursday afternoon she came down again.   Morrison and Charlie went to Truro and D.M. to Belmont to see a water - wheel on Thursday.  Morrison came home Friday about four o'clock and Edith and Ralph were here to tea.  Morrison got himself and me a Bible apiece.  Charlie had gone to visit in Greenfield and did not get back until Saturday afternoon.  None of us were at Sabbath School, but Bub and Charlie went down to service at the church at three o'clock.

June 19, 1893 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Charlie and Morrison were down to F.J. Logan's.

June 20, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  They were working on the roads today.  The wind was pretty high.

June 21, 1893 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  The wind was high.  The smoke was pretty thick too.  Herb Higgins and Charlie came home from the roads at noon.  I got up this morning.  Don't feel very strong.  Bessie Fulton and James MacDonald were married today;  some of the boys went to serenade them, but they didn't stay long.  Herb and Charlie went to F.J. Logan's.

June 22,1893 - Thursday.  A fine day again. M.S. and Minnie Cox here today.   They were on the roads today.  Charlie went to Greenfield with Mr Murdoch today.   Geordie Graham Sr. was here to dinner, and Mr Johnson, the bookman, called in the afternoon.  Mrs B. got a Hymnal and a magazine from him.   Mrs Higgins and Amy here a while.  Mr and Mrs Hingley were here to stay all night.  Jim Graham was here after a butter-tub tonight.

June 23, 1893 - Friday.  Pretty fine.  Mr and Mrs Hingley went away this morning.   Bub was working at the Sxchool House all day.  Morrison built the children a house in the forenoon and he and Enoch Fulton went to shoot hawks after dinner.  Fred was down to the Blacksmith Shop and Edith and Ralph came down here about half past three.  They stayed to tea.

June 24, 1893 - Saturday,.  Looks dark today.  Edith and I wrote to Mamma today.  Morrison is working up at the School House;  Bub is at home making a cucumber bed.

June 25, 1893 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Cooler weather.  None of us at church or Sabbath School.  Had a sleep this forenoon.  Reading aloud to Morrison after dinner.

June 26, 1893 - Monday.  A darkish day, but no rain yet.  Bub and D.M. did not go to the School House to work today.  They went to a School Meeting tonight.  Grandma, Janie and Nettie are up.  They came this morning and are going to stay all night and go up to Ede's in the morning.

June 27, 1893 - Tuesday.  Cloudy today but no rain yet.  Grandma, Janie and Nettie went away , up to Edith's this morning.  Bub went to work at the School House and Mrs B. to the wash place to wash.  I got the dinner.   We stewed some rhubarb for tea tonight.  Am out of sorts - and - mad - I guess.

June 28, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Everything looks as if rain would improve it.  A pretty hard frost last night.  It killed quite a lot of beans etc.  Jessie Gourley was here to dinner, also Andy Graham.  Mrs Eliza Blaikie came up to Mrs Hamilton's to dinner and here to spend the afternoon.  Morrison went up to work at the School House, but no one else was there, and so after dinner, he and Edith came down.  He drove her home after tea.  Grandma, Janie and Nettie went home this morning.

June 29, 1893 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Our cow was out all night.   Morrison was down along today.  Got home just as we sat down to tea.  We baked bread today.   Christy J. Graham was here an hour or two this afternoon.  Baby seems rather colicy tonight. Morrison and Roy and Alden are up to Mrs Higgins' just now.

June 30, 1893 - Friday.  A fine hot day.  Quite a breeze.  D.M. was up to the School House, painting today.  I made a cloak for the baby, also shirts.  Baby was good today.

July 1, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  Fos came home this afternoon.  Bub was down to Aunt Eliza's sawing wood for her.  Morrison was up to the School House.  Was not very well today.

July 2, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day again.  Very much in need of rain.  No preaching in the School House today.  None of us were up to Sabbath School.

July 3, 1893 - Monday.  Still fine.  Fos was up at the School House painting.  Morrison went down along in the afternoon.  Mrs Blaikie was washing at the brook after dinner.

July 4, 1893 - Tuesday.  Quite a thick mist this morning and the welcome rain came before night.  It did a lot of good to growth everywhere.  They went to Belmont this morning: viz - J.W. Deyarmond, Fred Woodworth, Bub, and Fos, and Morrison.   Roy, Baby and I went up to stay with Edith and Ralph.

July 5, 1893 - Wednesday.  A pretty fine day.  Looks rather dark.  None of them got back last night.  We got along all right so far.

July 6, 1893 - Thursday.  A dark day, also rainy and showery.   Prince George and Princess May were married today. Edith was picking strawberries etc today.   They haven't arrived from Belmont yet;  that is anyone except J.W. Deyarmond, who passed Fred's about eleven o'clock at night.

July 7, 1893 - Friday.  Quite fine this afternoon, but dark in the morning.  They didn't come home last night;  Edith and I sat up for them until after twelve o'clock.  Fred walked from Riversdale this morning.  Morrison came over about dinner time.  We had just got our dinner, but Morrison wouldn't wait at Fred's, so Baby, Roy and I  packed up and came home, where they had just finished dinner too.   Mrs B. went up to meet Bub about two o'clock.

July 8, 1893 - Saturday.  Another fine day.  Mr Geddes came tonight.

July 9, 1893 - Sabbath.  Quite wet.  Not a very heavy rain.  Mr Geddes went up to  Enoch Fulton's for dinner.   Mr Murray of Shubenacadie preached in the church and up here today.  Prayer Meeting at Aunt Peggy's tonight.

July 10, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day.  Mr Geddes came down with Uncle James Johnson this morning.

July 11, 1893 - Tuesday.  Dark looking in the morning, but turned out a fine day.  A picnic and ball (game?) in Musquodoboit - two of them.  One was made by Wm. Dunlap.  A picnic or tea meeting was also held in Harmony.

July 12, 1893 - Wednesday.  I don't particularly remember about today.  I was sick, and it is sometime since I have written, so I can't remember all.

July 13, 1893 - Thursday.  Rather cool.  Was in bed most of the day today.  Mr Geddes went home.

July 14, 1893 - Friday.  Quite cold.  Got up about two o'clock this afternoon.  Laura and Sadie (Mrs Graham and Mrs Hill)  who had been over to Pictou, came this afternoon.  Was surprised and very glad to see them.  They had the (Maude H. ) Sade's horse and carriage.  After dinner, D.M. drove them up to Fred's, where they are staying tonight.  Willie and Lucy B. Johnson were in today.

July 15, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine warm day.  Felt a lot better today.  Fred and Ralph and Sade drove down and Edith and Laura walked, ablut three o'clock this afternoon.  Fred went to Cross Roads, Sadie and Laura continued their journey and Edith and Ralph stopped to tea.  Bub went to the Village, Corner, etc.

July 16,1893 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  A little rain, some thunder.  No preaching in the school-house.  None of Mr Higgins folks or us were at Sabbath School today, as it looked so rainy.  Mrs Higgins was here to tea.

July 17, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day.  Morrison and Herb and Howard were working on the roads this afternoon.  Bub went to C.C. Cox's for flour but did not get any, as it hadn't come.  Mrs J.W. Deyarmond was sick tonight.  Mrs Blaikie is down.  D.M. drove her down.

July 18 , 1893- Tuesday.  Another fine day.  Bub, Morrison and the Higgins boys  working on the road.   Mrs Higgins was here a short time this afternoon.

July 19, 1893 - Wednesday.   Fine  in the forenoon but thunder showers tonight.   Fred was down to dinner and then he and D.M. went down to the Gould place to see the hay, after which Morrison and Roy drove up to Fred's.   D.M. got some fresh meat.  Mrs B. and Ida and Roy went down to J.W. Deyarmond's in the afternoon and back to tea.   Charlie came home today, also Mr Higgins.

July 20, 1893 - Thursday.  Fine again.  Mrs D. Hamilton (Janie Blaikie) was  here to spend the afternoon.  She is visiting round here now.  Mr Fraser was up to Prayer Meeting tonight.  Had a letter from Annie Archibald.

July 21, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day.   Charlie was working up to the school house this afternoon.  They were papering etc.   Mrs B. and Ida were up to Mr Higgins' this afternoon.   They put in the hay tonight.   Bub was down to the Corner after flour, meal, etc.

July 22, 1893 - Saturday.  Showery.  Quite a lot of thunder showers.   We had green peas for dinner.   Fred was helping with the hay-body.  He and Charlie went up about three o'clock.   I finished Alden's dress today.   Also lace for one pillow case.   Uncle John has just arrived.   Roy has earache and is peevish.

July 23, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  We heard that there was no preaching in the school-house, but after Morrison, Mrs B. and Roy had started for Sabbath School, we saw Mr Fraser gong up.   Charlie and Uncle John went.   Mr Fraser expected to preach for Mr Smith, but Mr Smith got another minister, so Mr Fraser came up.

July 24, 1893 - Monday.  A showery day.  Bub and Fred went down to the Gould place to mow.  Mr and Mrs Blaikie went down to Aunt Eliza's to see Janie and etc.  Charlie stayed at home and Uncle John washed his clothes.  I boiled some beans for dinner.

July 25, 1893 - Tuesday.   A fine day.  Morrison took the hay-waggon down to the Gould Place this morning. He didn't know whether he would be back or not tonight.   Charlie went up to the school-house to help paint.   They finished painting it.  Mrs B. washed at the brook this afternoon, and I washed a few clothes at the house.

July 26, 1893 - Wednesday.  Dark and drizzly this afternoon.  None of them came home last night.  Miss Emma Deyarmond and Mr Edward Earle were here this forenoon a short time.  Mrs Blaikie went over to Mr Deyarmond's, C Proven's etc, this afternoon.  They had quite a company.  Bub and Morrison are home now.

July 27, 1893 - Thursday.  Quite wet this forenoon, but finer in the afternoon.  One or two showers.  Very warm and sultry.  The water is pretty high.  Enoch, Charlie etc, were stream-driving this afternoon.  Martin and Alfred Johnson were here to tea.  Emma Deyarmond and Edward Earle left for the States today.   There is Prayer Meeting at P.S. Hamilton's tonight.  Mrs Blaikie and Morrison are there.  Charlie is down along (not at prayer meeting).  Wanted to go up to see Edith today, but did not get off.  Felt kind of provoked, but it is over now, and my blood has gradually returned to its usual heat again.  We got no letter from Fos tonight.  Guess he must have forgotten all of us.

July 28, 1893 - Friday.  Dark this morning, but it turned out to be a fine day.   They were stream-driving today and Charlie was on the drive.   Some of them were here to eat.  Morrison drove me up to Fred's this morning and I stayed until about three o'clock in the afternoon.   Then he came after me as Uncle Ad. and Aunt Mary were here this afternoon.  Homer was with them.   Eva was at Fred's to dinner.  Ralph was not very well.  We made emptyings tonight, and Mr Blaikie is making a mouse trap.

July 29, 1893 - Saturday.  Fine day.  They were haying today.  Brought a load of hay up.  Roy and Morrison went down after dinner.  Roy and Bub came up with fred.  William Dunlap here to dinner.   Charlie made Mrs Blaikie and me a present of a neckerchief today.

July 30, 1893 - Sabbath. Pretty fine.  Charlie up to Sabbath School.

July 31, 1893 - Monday.  Dark this morning, but a fine afternoon.  Bub and Fred went down to the Gould place this morning and are not coming back tonight.  Morrison finished the sofa.  Charlie went to Greenfield, Truro etc.

August 1, 1893 - Tuesday.  prety fine.  Morrison went down to the Gould place this morning and they brought a load of hay up at night.  Charlie came home tonight.   Lib and Liss were here calling tonight.  I washed at the brook in the afternoon.  Uncle John did his washing before dinner, and helped me afterwash.  F.J. Logan and S.Sample were here to dinner.

August 2, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Charlie, Bub and Uncle John and Fred went down to the Gould place today.  D.M. stayed home.  They took a load of hay up to Fred's tonight.  Minnie and Alfred were down a little while tonight.

August 3, 1893 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Fred, Bub and Morrison were down to the Gould place today.   Edith and Ralph were down here to dinner.  It is Ralph's first birthday.  Ede and I carried the babies, Ralph and Glenn, up to Alice Proven's, but she was away so we had to come back, greatly to Roy's displeasure.  Edith left for home about three.  We were baking bread.

August 4, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day.  They mowed the rest of our hay at home today.  Mrs Blaikie over to Aunt Annie's getting her dress cut, fitted etc.  She got home about dark.  Ede and Fred were down along.

August 5, 1893 - Saturday. Another fine day.  Charlie was down to the Corner, Pembroke, etc.  Got some sugar, etc.  Laura came home tonight.  Picked a bowl of raspberries this afternoon.  They felled the old grist-mill this forenoon.  Fred called tonight.

August 6, 1893 - Sabbath.  Raining.  The hours of preaching were favorable, however.  Bub, Charlie and John were up.   D.M. and Mrs B. were not there.  Took a walk to the Cold Spring this morning.  My twenty-third birthday.

August 7, 1893 - Monday.  Fine again; but it looked dark a while.  Morrison carried me water to wash some this morning.   I washed the skin off nearly all my fingers, nearly.  Picked two pints of raspberries this afternoon and Ida picked a bowlful.  Fos came home today.  We were all glad to see him.  It is Alden's second birthday, and I think he ought to remember it, as he got stung this forenoon, and got into a hornet's nest tonight.  They came out in swarms and stung Morrison and Roy too. The children were all crying, and it sounded lively awhile.  Mrs Higgins and Amy were here to tea.  Mrs B. went up to Mrs Higgins' and got my skein of yarn after tea.

August 8, 1893- Tuesday.  Dark this forenoon but fine in the afternoon.  There was thunder too.  We had new potatoes for dinner.  Messrs W. Bentley, and S. Lindsay were here this morning.  Mrs B. washed at the brook this afternoon.  I baked.  Mrs B. mixed the bread and churned this forenoon.  They finished the black-smith shop.   I finished my pillow -slips, and mended this afternoon.

August 9, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day again.  Fos and Morrison were down to Cross Roads, Stewiacke, Village, F.J. Logan's etc this forenoon.  Got me cloth for a dress, an autograph album (For my birthday), and boots for Alden etc.  They got back about two o'clock.  We had green beans for dinner.  Began a pair of socks for the baby.  Bub was "up along" today.  Charlie is "down along" tonight.

August 10 , 1893- Thursday.  Another fine hot day.  Thermometer - eighty-seven.  Fos went back to work , or rather started today.  Charlie and Laura are at the show (Pawnee Bills) in Truro.  Fos went with them to Riversdale.  Baby is fussy.  Has been all day.  Mrs B., Ida, Bub, and Roy were away picking raspberries this afternoon.  They got a kettle full.  Morrison went to Prayer Meeting tonight.  Bub's tooth is sore today.

August 11, 1893 - Friday.  Fine.  Thermometer up to ninety degrees.  Charlie got home this forenoon.  He brought Roy and Alden a mug a piece.  Mrs Higgins was here in the afternoon getting some stitching done for Herb.  D.M., baby and I went up to Fred's about half-past three and came back about dark.

August 12, 1893 - Saturday.  Fine.  Not quite so warm.  Mrs Blaikie has been up to Mrs Higgins' all day helping her.  Fred was down to F.J. Logan's today.

August 13, 1893 - Sabbath.  Showery.  Rather dark all day.  Charlie and Morrison intended going to church, but as it was so wet, they didn't go.  Morrison, Mrs B., Roy and Alden went up to Sabbath School in the afternoon.

August 14, 1893 - Monday.  Dark again, also showery.  Liss and Minnie Graham came to pick raspberries this morning, but the weather did not permit, so they made us a nice visit.  Edith and Fred and Little Ralph came down about twenty minutes to ten and stayed until between two sand three o'clock.  Then, just after they left, Aunt Esther and Uncle Jim came and stayed to tea.   I washed out a few things this morning but did not get them out as we were so busy.  Charlie and Herb went down along this afternoon.  Herb intended going to Manitoba today but had deferred it until August twenty-first.

August 15, 1893 - Tuesday.  A dark showery day.  Not as hot as common.  Charlie and some others went to Smithfield to pick blueberries this forenoon.  Herb Higgins and Everett Deyarmond were here a while this morning.  Then Herb was down to get the lend of our road-cart to go to Moose River.  Bub, Morrison and Uncle John were mowing a while out at the Lowery Brook.

August 16 , 1893- Wednesday.  Rather dark but there was some sunshine in the afternoon.  Charlie did not get home last night, nor yet.  Howard Higgins was here a little while today.  Baby colicy after tea.  He is colicy almost every night.  Ida, Mrs B., and I each picked a bowl of raspberries.  Bub and Uncle John were out to the hay-field.

August 17, 1893 - Thursday.  A rainy day.  C.E. Graham was here to dinner.  P.S. Hamilton and James A. Graham were here a while in the afternoon.  Morrison had letters from W.M. Geddes and S. Lindsay tonight.  Charlie got home last night.  He had a pail of raspberries.

August 18, 1893 - Friday.  Dark and misty this morning, but the weather cleared in the afternoon and got fine.  Mr James Dunlap of Meadowvale had a grist here today.   He stopped to dinner.  Janie and Nettie called in the afternoon.  They had taken Edith up home.  She had gone to the Cove, Branch etc. on Tuesday.  Grandma Andrews sent me a skein of yarn. Morrison went down to the Corner after dinner.  He got a barrel of flour, sugar, oatmeal etc.  Mrs Blaikie and Ida picked a kettle of raspberries this afternoon.  We churned this forenoon, made emptyings tonight.  Morrison bought a wagon from F.J. Logan.  Fred was over tonight but I wasn't speaking to him.

August 19, 1893 - Saturday.  Rather dark, and decidedly cooler.  Bub and Uncle John went out to the Lowery  Brook to mow, and took their dinner with them.  Morrison took Charlie over to the Bentley Blackie Place on his way to Smithfield.  Mrs B. and Ida went away to pick raspberries after dinner, and Morrison took the hay-body and went after hay out where Bub and Uncle John were mowing.   After tea, D.M. and I went up to Fred's.  We met Fred over by the mailbox.  He was on his way to the Corner.   We were only there a little while.  Miss Maggie M. Cox, the teacher, came there today to board,  and we met her for the first time.

August 20, 1893 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine.  Fred's birthday.  Preaching in the afternoon.  Mrs B., D.M. and Roy rode up in the new wagon.   Bub, Uncle John, and Mr Blaikie walked.

August 21, 1893 - Monday.  Pretty fine in the forenoon, but rainy in the afternoon.  Uncle John and I went to the brook and washed this morning.  I had an immense washing.  Uncle John washed his own.  Mrs B. kept the baby.  Morrison went up after a load of lumber and got his dinner at Uncle S. Johnson's, and got home about four.   Little Andy was here to dinner.  School opened today.  Mrs B. and Ida went to pick berries, but they came home on account of the rain.

August 22, 1893 - Tuesday.  A great gale last night;  a lot of damage done over the country;  this was quite a fine afternoon.   F.J. Logan had a pretty good day's stream-driving.  Charles Proven and Herb Higgins were here to dinner.  Herb Higgins, Charlie Grant, John Deyarmond, Lyman Johnson, Charles Proven, and P.S. Hamilton were here to tea.  I didn't do much today.  We baked bread and preserved two dishes of apples.  A lot of apples were blown off last night.

August 23, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  They were stream-driving today again.  Geordie MacKay and James A. Graham were here to dinner.  Morrison carried the baby down to the bridge for me and then I went on to J.W. Deyarmond's and spent the day.  Agnes is a good deal better.  Morrison came down to tea and carried Glenn home.  Maggie Deyarmond was there a short time.  Herb Higgins went to Elikam Tupper's today.

August 24, 1893 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Looks dark tonight.  Morrison and Fred were down after a load of hay for the latter.  Morrison was at Fred's to dinner.  Bub and Uncle John were mowing out at Lowery Brook.  They took their dinner out with them.  Mrs Hamilton was very sick with cramp in the stomach, and they sent for Mrs Blaikie about ten o'clock this forenoon.  She came home to tea and has gone back to sit up tonight.  Mrs Hamilton is better.  Uncle John was up to Prayer Meeting.

August 25, 1893 - Friday.  Dark.  Some rain fell, but not heavily.  Mrs Blaikie came home before breakfast this morning.  Mrs Hamilton rested very well.  We baked again today.  Had soup for dinner.  Put some carrots in it.  Aunt Eliza drove up but did not stop any time today.  She was looking for her cow.  We pickled some cucumbers tonight for the first.

August 26, 1893 - Saturday.  Rather dark with slight slowers this forenoon.  But this afternoon was fine.  It was Morrison's birthday.  We had an apple-dumpling for dinner.  I ate half of it.  After that I was not able to do anything for a while.  After dinner Mrs Blaikie and Ida went to the wash place and did a large washing. Morrison, Bub, and Uncle John brought in a little load of hay from Lowery Brook.  Alice Proven and Mrs W. Crockett were in tonight.  Mrs Blaikie was down to see how Mrs Hamilton is tonight.  She is very ill.  Put short clothes on Glenn today.

August 27, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Mrs Blaikie and Bub and Roy were down to church.   The first time Roy was ever down.   Uncle John was down and stayed at Augustine Logan's to dinner.   Charlie and Abner Smith were here an hour or two after dinner.   Mrs Blaikie went down to sit up with Mrs Hamilton, but there was no need, as there were plenty of people.

August 28, 1893 - Monday.  Rather dark but not rainy.  Morrison and Roy went to the Corner, Fult's etc. and D.M. got a suit of clothes: light pants.  I carried Glenn up and stayed with Edith all day.  D.M. and Alden came up with the horse and wagon after me.   They were there to tea.   Uncle John went to S.A. Logan's to reap.   Eva had a son last night or this morning.  Eleanor Bentley is there.

August 29, 1893 - Tuesday.  Dark but not raining yet.  I washed this forenoon and ironed after tea.   We are getting ready to go to Musquodoboit.  Uncle John came back tonight.  He is done reaping.  John Deyarmond was here a few minutes tonight.

August 30, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  A slight breeze.  Morrison, baby and I went to Musquodoboit today.  We got to James Benvie's a little after eleven o'clock. Then after dinner, Morrison went to Middle Musquodoboit, to S. Lindsay's, and got back to Mr Benvie's about nine at night.  We didn't get to bed until after twelve.

August 31, 1893 - Thursday.  Cooler, but fine yet.  We stayed at Mr Benvie's until after dinner today.  Then we came home by Newton Mills.  Baby was pretty good.  We got home about half-past three or thereabouts.  Morrison got quite a few things at Lindsay's - black cashmere for Mrs B and I - dresses, factory cotton, boots for Roy, Alden, Bub, Ida and I etc.  Had a letter from Fos tonight.  Mrs B. cleaned the cook-room and this room today.

September 1, 1893 - Friday.  Another fine day.  William Dunlap was here to dinner.  Fred called.  Morrison up at Robert Graham's, and Bub was away with Howard Higgins looking for a cow of theirs.  Mrs B. and Ida were down to Mrs Hamilton's.  She, Mrs H., is no better.  Mrs B. is there tonight.  Made emptyings tonight.  We cooked a squash today.  It was very good.

September 2, 1893 - Saturday.  Dark and showery all day.  Edith came down in the morning with the mail, and stayed all day.  Mrs B. took her home at night.  J.W. Deyarmond called in the afternoon.   J.G. Hamilton came home to see his mother today.

September 3, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Not very hot.  Quite a breeze.  Mrs B. went down to J.W. Deyarmond's  to get a little sacque to put on Glenn as we intended taking him to the school-house this afternoon; but Morrison had the asthma so badly that he stayed at home and kept him.  Mrs B., Roy, Alden and I drove there.

September 4, 1893 - Monday.  Dark and drizzly this morning, but cleared off after dinner.  Fred commenced work this morning, but as it cleared up after dinner , he went home to turn his oats. Morrison went down along this afternoon, and Mrs B. went down to see Mrs Hamilton.  She, Mrs H. , is better.  Morrison got some sugar, etc.  C. Graham and C. Proven called.  P.S. Hamilton and Morrison sent for a map to Truro.

September 5, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine day again.  Mrs B. and Bub set off to Truro via Greenfield this morning.  Fred here half a day.  Went home to put in his wheat.   I ran up to Mrs Higgins to borrow a few pounds of beef.  D.M. kept Glenn.  Got eight pounds of beef.   Ruby E. Graham, G.Albert Deyarmond, and Everett R. Deyarmond were here this evening.  Ruby is keeping house for Alice Proven, who is at the Valley, Truro, etc.

September 6, 1893- Wednesday.  Dark.  Rained last night. Fred here about a quarter today.  He went home to get ready to go to C. Proven's to get his spokes put in his waggon.  Mrs Higgins was down a little while.  Boiled a squash this forenoon.  Uncle John and D.M. cleaned the stove this afternoon.

September 7, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Fred was not here today.  Baked bread today.  Mrs B. and Bub got home tonight just as we got our tea over.  They got their dinner at Mrs Abner Smith's both going to and coming from Truro.  C.E. Graham had a grist here.

September 8, 1893 - Friday.  A dark day, not much rain though.  Mrs B. went over to Charles Graham's where they were all sick almost.  Little Christie is very poorly.  Fred was here today working all day.  Lyman Johnson and J.T. Hamilton were here to dinner.  Mrs Higgins was down a while this afternoon.  Alice Proven came home from Riversdale, and Charles went.  Picked a pumpkin today.

September 9, 1893 - Saturday.  Fine today.  Washed this forenoon.  The W.F.M.S. met in the afternoon.  Mrs B. was there and she stopped at Mrs Fulton's when she came down again.  She brought two garments to make.  Mrs Higgins called as she came home and got a cup of tea.  Fred was here three-quarters today.

September 10, 1893 - Sabbath.  Dark.  A few showers.  D.M. and I intended going to church, but the dark weather prevented our going.  Baby is fussy.

September 11, 1893 - Monday.  Rain; sunshine, and clouds.  Creel. Cox here to dinner.   Fred was working here today.  Amy Higgins is sick.  Herb went after Laura.   We made the garments for the heathens today.  Made emptyings tonight.

September 12, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  A very hard frost these two nights.  Everything is killed.  Fred was here this forenoon, but went up to help Charles Proven's folks in with their oats. J.T. Hamilton called.  Mrs B. and Ida stopped over to Cassie's after dinner, and Ida stopped at Alice Proven's.  D.M. got the bolt cloth this afternoon.

September 13, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day again.  They got the mill started to grind buckwheat today.  Fred was here all day.  Alfred Johnson was here with a grist.  We don't get much but the work done now.  We churned, and baked some pumpkin pies.  Gathered all the cucumbers this morning.  Baby is troublesome.

September 14, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Mrs Blaikie washed this forenoon and I washed a little in the afternoon.  Also washed my feet. Fred was here today and went away with Bub when he (Bub) went up to Uncle Jim's.  James Crocker had a grist here.  Had a letter from Papa and Johnnie.  Tea-meeting in the Village.

September 15, 1893 - Friday.  Another fine day.  Quite a few grists came today.  Fred was here all day.  Warren Johnson here to dinner.  Laura Higgins called this afternoon.  I washed the sitting room this forenoon, and put a waist on Glenn's white dress in the afternoon.  They put in the second crop of hay tonight.

September 16, 1893 - Saturday.  Dark but not much rain.  Fred went down along this morning and Edith and Ralph stopped here until I got ready and then we, Edith, Ralph,  I, and Glenn went up to Mr Higgins' and I stayed to dinner.  Laura helped me carry the baby home. Edith waited until Fred came.  Mrs Blaikie and Alden went to meet Charlie.  They went as far as Aunt Eliza's, but failed to meet him and so came home.  We baked today.  Mrs B. baked pies.   Mrs S.J. Bentley, D. Archibald, W. Crockett etc., were here to dinner.

September 17, 1893 - Sabbath.  A very rainy day.  Quite a freshet.  No preaching as the weather was so unfavorable Mr Fraser was not up.  Charlie came home last night after Morrison and I had gone into our room.

September 18, 1893 - Monday.  Dark this forenoon, but cleared away after noon.  Rather cooler.  Some grinding going on.   Fred wasn't here.  He was on the drive for F.J. Logan.   Baby Glenn was very troublesome this day.  Roy was quite sick too this afternoon.  He was very hot and his head aching.  Charlie was on the drive this forenoon.  Alex MacKay was here a while.  Uncle John was down to F.J. Logan's after a barrel of flour, sugar, tea etc.

September 19, 1893 - Tuesday.  Rather dark.  Showers toward night.  Charlie and Morrison went to Smithfield this morning; The former was going to Greenfield to work with Laurie MacKenzie.  They, or Morrison, dined at Abner Smith's.  Agnes Deyarmond was sick today.  Mrs Blaikie was down twice today.   Glenn was very troublesome today.  Mr Dan Graham and James Creelman were here to dinner.

September 20, 1893 - Wednesday.  Rather dark.  Bub and John went down to the Gould Place after hay.  They went after dinner and got back after tea.   We got a quarter of beef from James A. Graham today.    I washed a little in the forenoon.  Scalded the beef tub after dinner, etc.

September 21, 1893 - Thursday.  A rather dark day.  James McCabe from  Greenfield was here with a grist.  S. Lindsay's teamster,  Mr  Higgins , was here to dinner.  He brought some merchandise for us and took away mill machinery that Lindsay was getting.  Finished one of Glenn's dresses this afternoon.  Mrs B. salted the beef this morning.

September 22, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day.  Bub and Uncle John went after hay this forenoon.  Robert Harrison was here to dinner.  Frank Fulton was up; also his little girl.  We churned.

September 23, 1893 - Saturday.  Dark looking - misting a little, but no rain.   D.M. drove me upto see Edith this morning and he stayed until after dinner.  Fred brought me home at night, and Miss Cox, who had been visiting up at Mrs Higgins', went home with him.

September 24, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Mr Fraser preached in the school house today.  Mr B. and I at home.  Jim and Janet Graham, and Ned and Cassie Graham got their babies baptized.  The former called theirs Jessie Lois, and Ned and Cassie - Frederick Alexander.  Edith fainted on account of the heat, etc.

September 25, 1893 - Monday.  Rather dark, but some sunshine.  Fred came back to work today.  He was here all day.   Also, Mr Crockett, who was helping to pick the mill stones.  We washed today.  I in the forenoon, and Mrs B. in the afternoon.   Mrs Higgins and Amy were here to dinner.  Uncle John went to Smithfield this afternoon.  He intended returning this evening.

September 26, 1893 - Tuesday.  Not very fine, but there was some sunshine.   There was a heavy rain with some thunder and lightning last night.   Mrs Blaikie was down at J.W. Deyarmond's all night.  Agnes was better this morning.   D. McGill Johnson was here to dinner.  Fred was here.  Uncle John and Morrison went up to Fred's tonight after a load of stuff.

September 27, 1893 - Wednesday.  Rather dark.  Some rain.  We ironed today.  Fred was here today.  Didn't get much done.  Baby is fussy these days.  We have to see to him all the time.

September 28, 1893 - Thursday.  A rainy day.  Morrison intended gong to the Corner. etc today, but the weather prevented it.  John W. Graham home from ...?...   .  Quite a lot of grinding came.  Aunt Anne and Uncle Charlie were here to dinner.  Also Cy, and Angus.  Mr James Cox was here all night, as it was too wet to go home.  Mr Crockett was working here but Fred wasn't.

September 29, 1893 - Friday.  Dark but not much rain.  Morrison went down along this forenoon.  He got back about four o'clock.  Mr Hingley brought John Wilson, Agnes Deyarmond's brother, over to J.W. Deyarmond's this forenoon, and he is here tonight.  J.W. Graham is making a dance at Fred's and Bub is there.  No more of us though.

September 30, 1893 - Saturday.  Cold and rainy.  No heavy rain though.  Edith, Ralph, Fred and Miss  Cox were down today.  They were here all day;(all but Fred).  He was at the Corner with his chickens.  He and Mrs B. caught our roosters and he took them.  We are getting pullets from them.  Had a letter from Fos tonight.  Mrs Gilbert Gourley died this morning.

October 1, 1893 - Sabbath.  Damp this morning but clear this afternoon.  Everybody at the school-house at preaching but Mr B., Alden, baby and I.

October 2, 1893 - Monday.  Rainy.  Pretty wet.  Fred here all day.  I washed this forenoon.  It was pretty hard work.  Mr George Dickie here to dinner.

October 3, 1893 - Tuesday.  Quite fine this afternoon.  Fred here today.  James Brown and David Bentley here to dinner. Eleanor Bentley here a while this afternoon.   We picked the pumpkins and squash today.   Had mutton for dinner.  Mr C. Graham presented it us.  Baby very fussy these days.  We get very little done.

October 4, 1893 - Wednesday.  Pretty fine this forenoon, but rainy in the afternoon.  Drizzly tonight. Fred here all day.  He brought the pullets down.   After dinner Alice Proven came down for a few minutes and I went back up with her.  Was only there about an hour or so, when Uncle John came after me, as Mrs Wm. Deyarmond, and Mrs Samuel Deyarmond had come to spend the afternoon.  The former got a couple of dresses, and is going to sew for them.  We baked pumpkin pies today.

October 5, 1893- Thursday.  Rather dark today.  Fred here all day.  Fred Bentley here with a grist this afternoon. J. Dunlap here to dinner.  Ida was poorly today.

October 6, 1893 - Friday.  Rather finer today.  Ida was pretty poorly today.  Mrs B. and I sat up until after one o'clock last night.Mrs B. didn't sleep hardly any, any of these nights.  Fred was here today.  We washed this afternoon - just a few things.   We baked home-made flour bread.

October 7, 1893 - Saturday.  Pretty fine this forenoon; dark after noon.  Morrison and Roy were down to the Corner, F.J. Logan's etc. this afternoon.  Got Roy and Alden caps.  Mrs B. went down to J.W. Deyarmond's this afternoon and back in a little while.   Ida was better.  Fred wasn't here today.  Uncle John washed at the brook.  Minnie Johnson called this afternoon.  Also Alice Proven.  Mrs Higgins and Amy, and Mr and Mrs Abner Smith called tonight.

October 8, 1893 - Sabbath.  Pretty fine this forenoon.  A fine afternoon.  Bub and Uncle John went down to church in the morning, and Mrs B. and they to the school-house after dinner.   Rev. Mr Thompson preached.

October 9, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day.  Fred here all day.  Aunt Eliza and Rupert Archibald  here to dinner.  Mrs B. and Aunt Eliza drove down to see Agnes after dinner.  She was better.

October 10, 1893 - Tuesday.  Dark with a little rain.  Fred here this afternoon.  There was a dance there last night.  Janet Graham, Amanda. Cora and Lois were here in the afternoon.  I washed a little.

October 11, 1893 - Wednesday.  A fine day.  Janie and Nettie came up today.  They are staying here all night.  Mrs B. was up to Mrs Higgins' this afternoon.  Fred here all day.

October 12, 1893 - Thursday.  Another fine day.  Janie, Nettie, Glenn and I went up to Fred's this morning.   Morrison and Uncle John went up after the shingle machine.   Janie and Nettie went home about four o'clock.   Morrison came for me in the evening.   Miss Cox went to Waddle's Ball with Mr E. Hamilton.   Fred working here today.  Uncle John's leg hurt by D.M.

October 13, 1893 - Friday.  Fine again.   Washed out a few things and made some cakes.  Fos not home yet.  We are looking for him everyday.   Uncle John's leg was pretty bad.

October 14, 1893 - Saturday.   Not so fine as common.  W.F.M.S. met at School house this afternoon.  Mrs B. went.  I made a ginger cake today.  Uncle John's leg has got better.   He was at Fred's today.   Swept the chamber a little this afternoon.  J.T. Hamilton here to tea.

October 15, 1893 - Sabbath.  Fine this afternoon, but wet in the morning.   Herb Higgins here a while in the forenoon.   Mrs B. down to J.W. Deyarmond's last night.  Morrison kept baby Glenn for me to go to preaching at the school house in the afternoon.   We took Roy and Alden.   Mr Fraser preached a good sermon on the words "My refuge is in God".

October 16, 1893 - Monday.  A fine day - rather chilly.  Mrs B. washed this forenoon.  Fred here all day.  I was down to the Corner, Village etc in the afternoon.  Left Glenn with Mrs B. He was pretty fussy.  Saw A.J. Cox in the Village.  She is the same old Jane.

October 17, 1893 - Tuesday.  A fine day.  Uncle Jim and Byde here plowing until about half-past three.  Fred here all day.   Edith and Miss Cox were up to Alice Proven's to tea.  Baby sick.  He had something like spasms, we thought.

October 18, 1893 - Wednesday.  Rather squally.  Fred not here.  Baby some better.  Peeled a pumpkin this morning.  George S. Smith here to dinner.  Uncle John building a pig-pen.  They were fixing the millstones today.  Two Truroites were at the mill this afternoon.

October 19, 1893 - Thursday.  A fine day.  Hard frosts at night now.  Abner Smith here to dinner.  Mrs B. went down to J.W. Deyarmond's with him when he went home.   We got a card from Fos to meet him tomorrow.  Uncle John down to the Village via Otter Brook.

October 20, 1893 - Another fine day.  Not so cold.  Mrs B. went to meet Fos.  She went to Mr Hingley's.  Fos did not come as he had met Charlie in Truro and they are coming tomorrow now.    Aunt Eliza came here this afternoon to see if they were not going to come after the pig.  Cy and Eva were here a little while in the afternoon with yarn to knit drawers for Cy.  Mrs B. got her baskets at Uncle Sam's.  A dance at Janet Brown's.  Miss Jessie McKennie of Riversdale is visiting friends in Burnside.

October 21, 1893 - Saturday.  Pretty fine today.   Bub and Uncle John went after the pig today.  They got back between two and three o'clock.   Charlie and Fos came home this afternoon.  They and Bub are away tonight.  A.R. Higgins came home.   Ironed today.  Had a note from Edith.

October 22, 1893 - Sabbath.  A lovely day.  Fine and warm.  Mrs J.W. Deyarmond had a daughter this morning.  She is much better than was expected.  Mrs B. was there.  D.M. and Roy were at Sabbath School, Glenn and I at Fred's.

October 23, 1893 - Monday.  A warm day.  Not much sunshine.  Made a new pair of pants for Roy.  Mrs B. fixed D.M.'s undershirt.  Morrison and Roy intend going to Glasgow in the morning if nothing happens to prevent.  Mrs Higgins and Amy here to dinner.  Charlie went down along and back to dinner.  Uncle John was down to Deacon Deyarmond's getting his pants cut out today.

October 24, 1893 - Tuesday.  Rather dark.  Not much sunshine.  Fos' twenty-second birthday.  Mrs James Crockett called this morning.  They had a grist at the mill.  Anthony Crocker and H.G. Graham had grists.  We baked bread, pies and sweet bread today.  Morrison and Roy went to New Glasgow this morning.  Fred here to dinner.  A Jew Peddlar was at the mill.  They got a brush, a rattle, a whistle etc from him.  H.G. Graham here to tea.

October 25, 1893 - Wednseday.  A very wet day.  Quite a freshet.  Herb Higgins here to dinner.  Finished Alden's socks and began another new pair.  Fos, Charlie and Herb are up at Fred's tonight.

October 26, 1893 - Thursday.  Not so fine as some days last week, but no rain.  We washed the woolen clothes this forenoon; had quite a washing.  We had soup for dinner.  Quite a lot of grain came today.  Morrison and Roy got home this afternoon.  Baby pretty good today.

October 27, 1893 - Friday.  Dark, something like yesterday.  They were sawing wood with the drag-saw.  Bella and little Nessie called this afternoon.  Was patching all day.  Baby pretty good.  A dance at Fred's tonight.  Bub and Charlie there.  D.M. up at C. Proven's and got some salt today.

October 28, 1893 - Saturday.  Dark.  Rainy this afternoon and evening.  I washed this forenoon.  Had the line full.  Libbie Graham was here to tea.  She brought us a print of butter.  D.M. was down to the Corner this afternoon.  Got molasses etc.  We salted the meat tonight.  Alice Proven got 15 pounds of beef today.  Baby was good this forenoon but is troublesome tonight.

October 29, 1893 - Sabbath.  A fine day.  Preaching in the school house.  All of us there but baby and I and Bub.  Fos was at home after service.

October 30, 1893 - Monday.  A lovely day.  Some grinding came today.  Isaiah Starratt called.  Mrs B. finished doubling and twisting Aunt Anne's white worsted.I made a night dress for Glenn and put a piece to D.M.'s shirt. Charlie and Fos down to a dance in Pembroke.  They set up the new bellows today.

October 31, 1893 - Tuesday.  Another pretty fine day.  Mrs Blaikie went over to Aunt Anne's to get her to help cut Charlie's pants.  She and Aunt Anne drove over to Mr Deyarmond's in the afternoon.  Didn't get much done besides the work.  Fos was pretty sick with a pain.  Ed Brown called in.

November 1, 1893 - Wednesday.  A lovely day.  Mrs B. and Ida were over to Aunt Eliza's today.   They were sawing shingles.  Mrs Higgins, Amy and Herb were here this evening.  Herb was up to Bill's to borrow a horse collar.

November 2, 1893 - Thursday.  A pretty fine day. Mrs Blaikie working at Charlie's pants.   D.M. and I made an elevator belt tonight.  Fos and Charlie away, out to Newton Mills to an entertainment of the Lodge.  Fred was down this afternoon.  Mrs Foster Rutherford died this morning.

November 3, 1893 - Friday.  A nice fine day.  Mrs B. finished Charlie's pants today.  I didn't get much done.  Mrs R.S. Deyarmond brought up our blankets this afternoon, and Mrs B. drove back as far as J.W. Deyarmond's with her.  Baby is very fussy tonight.

November 4, 1893 - Saturday.  A pretty fine day.  Edith and Ralph were down to dinner and went home about four o'clock.   Mrs Blaikie and Fos were down to church in the afternoon.  We baked and churned today.  Charlie is down to the Corner tonight.

November 5, 1893 - Sabbath.  A beautifully fine day.  Sacrament Sabbath.  Bub, D.M. and I were down to church.   Burnside turned out strong.  Mr MacKenzie of Pugwash, assisted Mr Fraser.  Mr and Mrs Hingley were over.  Charlie and James William were to church in the evening.

November 6, 1893 - Monday.  Pretty fine.  Showery at night.  We washed this forenoon.  Mrs B. went up to Mr Higgins' this afternoon.   Mr and Mrs Hingley were here to tea and all night.  We slept on the sofas.  They were not very soft.  Charlie and Fos home all the evening.

Novemvber 7, 1893 - Tuesday.  Not very fine.  Pretty cold wind.  Mr and Mrs Hingley went over to George Deyarmond's this forenoon.  Minnie Johnson was here with a grist.  She and I and baby went up to Mrs Higgins' after dinner, but Mrs Higgins was not at home so we came back.  Charlie was over to Otter Brook yesterday.  Fos was up along.  Alice Proven called.

November 8, 1893 - Wednesday.  A beautiful day.  Quite cold this morning.  We ironed this forenoon.  Had soup for dinner.  Ida and I walked down to J.W. Deyarmond's this afternoon, but only stayed a short time.   D.M. and Bub bottomed the two chairs tonight.  Willie MacKay had a chopping frolic today and a dance tonight.  Charlie and Fos are there.  J.W. Deyarmond called this afternoon.  Jack Deyarmond here to tea.

November 9, 1893 - Thursday.  A very cold wind.  Sprinkles of rain.  Morrison and I went down along this afternoon.  We went to the Village and I got my Ulster cut at Mrs Charlie Grant's.  We left the children all at home.  Baby was pretty troublesome.  Fos got a letter to go away tonight.  Mr Fraser is not up to Prayer meeting this evening.

November 10 , 1893- Friday.  Rather warmer than yesterday.  Was up to C. Proven's after yarn this afternoon.

November 11, 1893 - Saturday.  A fine day.  A pretty warm night for the time of year.  Mrs B. and Fos were down along - at Janet Miller's etc.  They got home about four o'clock.  Baby had those spells again this afternoon.  D.M. and I took him down to the Doctor's after dark.  He gave us powders for him.  Got back about ten minutes before ten.  H.H. Ogilvie here to dinner.  Washed some this forenoon.  Also made pies and baked bread.

November 12, 1893 - Sabbath.  A lovely fine day.  Mr Gunn preached.   None of us were down to church as Glenn was quite poorly.  We were on the pont of going for the Doctor in the evening.

November 13, 1893 - Monday.  A staving, extra fine day.  Fred was here working.  Fos went away to Earltown today.  Charlie took him over to Riversdale and came back.  Mrs J. Walters and Layton Rose came over this afternoon.   She is home from the US on a visit.

November 14, 1893 - Tuesday.  Dark.  Some showers this afternoon.  Fred was here today.  Mrs Blaikie , Layton, and Roy went over to Mr George Deyarmond's this afternoon.  They were there to tea.  We baked bread today.  Mr Peter Grant was here to dinner.  Also a Cox boy.  Herb Higgins brought the meat home.

November 15, 1893 - Wednesday.  Dark.  Very warm and rainy tonight.  Fred was not here today as it was too wet.  Charlie was down to get the horse shod.  F.F. Creelman was here to dinner.  Also Aunt Eliza.  Ida was not well.  Baby is a little better today.  Mrs Walters and Layton Rose went home this morning.

November 16, 1893 - Thursday.  A dark squally day.  Mrs Blaikie went up to see Eva this afternoon.  Baby is still better.  Robert Graham was here a while this afternoon. Ruby E. Graham and Bradford Hamilton were in this evening. Charlie went over to Aunt Eliza's.  Bub had a great time getting the cow tonight.

November 17, 1893 - Friday.  Rather a cold wind but fine.  We didn't get much done this forenoon.  Mr Fred Bentley was here to dinner.  Mrs B. washed the kitchen, pantry etc.  D.M. and I went up to see Edith after dinner and D.M. went to visit the school.  I stayed all night as Fred was away to  Brookfield etc.  Mosie Pratt was there to tea and to stay the evening.

November 18, 1893 - Saturday.  Dark but warmer.  Morrison came upafter me and we caught the geese, went over to Aunt Anne's to change them, and then home.  We didn't get the gander changed, as they had them all killed.  Henry Johnson was here to dinner.  Charlie came home tonight.  D.M. got  the geese shut up.

November 19, 1893 - Sabbath.  A lovely fine day.  Preaching in the school house.  Mrs B. Roy, Bub, Charlie and Mr B. went to preaching.  D.M. and I at home.

November 20, 1893 - Monday.  Very stormy.  Quite a snow storm.  I washed but did not put the clothes out.  Washed the waggon-blanket and put it out.  Howard Graham went to Halifax this morning.

November 21, 1893 - Tuesday.  A lovely fine day.  Snow didn't thaw much.  Adam Johnson and George Deyarmond's trial at David Archibald's.  I drove down to C.C. Cox's this afternoon.  Left Glenn.  Wm. MacKenzie was up today.  E.F. Fulton here to tea.  He got some smashed stuff.  D.M. and I made Glenn a pair of moccasins, etc.

November 22, 1893 - Wednesday.  A cold morning, but a pleasant day.  We boiled a squash.  Charlie away hunting for moose, but didn't get any.  A Cox boy is here with a grist of wheat.  He is here yet, as it was late when he came.  We partly made a pair of dresses for Darby today.

November 23, 1893 - Thursday.  Thanksgiving Day.  A lovely day and a beautiful moonlight night.  There was a dinner for the young folk  at Robert Graham's and a party in the evening at Charles Graham's.  Mrs B. Bub and Alden were up to Service in the school house.  Glenn was not very well and Morrison and I did not go.  We baked bread and pies.  Mrs J. Walters and Mrs Angus Rose  and two little boys were here.  Mrs Rose stopped at the school house, but Mrs Walters brought the children and kept them here.

November 24, 1893 - Friday.  A rainy day.  Did not rain all day, but it was dark and is raining tonight.  Mrs Walter and Mrs Rose went home this morning. I finished Alden's night dress and patched Glenn's today.

November 25 , 1893- Saturday.  Some snow.  A little snow on the ground.  Colder tonight.  David Bentley was here to dinner.  Mrs Blaikie washed this forenoon.   She left the clothes out as they did not dry much today.  Baby was pretty good today.  Fred here a few minutes this afternoon.

November 26, 1893 - Sabbath.  Frozen ground.  Very rough travelling.  None of us went down to Springside.  There was no service in the school house.

November 27, 1893 - Monday.  Pretty fine but not much warmth.  Washed this forenoon.  Put the clothes out.  Baby pretty good.  Charles Graham here to dinner.   We had some herring.  Got it from Mrs Higgins.  Charlie went to Greenfield this morning.  Laura B. Higgins was down for yeast.

November 28, 1893 - Tuesday.  Not very fine.  Rainy tonight.  Mrs Blaikie coloured the factory cotton.   We baked bread.  Baby Glenn slept three hours this afternoon.  We've got some cold.

November 29, 1893 - Wednesday.  Some rain last night, but quite a nice day for the time of year. Fred, and James William Deyarmond were here shingling the mill today.  Mrs Higgins and Abner Smith here to dinner.   Bill Graham, Lyman and Clarence Johnson called. Mrs Blaikie was up to Alice Proven's to tea.

November 30, 1893 - Thursday.  Rainy this morning, but pretty fine.  Fred here shingling this afternoon.  Agnes Jane Cox and Samuel MacFetridge were married November 29, 1893.  Charles A. Fulton was here getting some shingles and with a grist today.  Charlie etc, went down along this afternoon.  Alden has a bad cold.  He has phthysic too.  G.A. Laird was here with tin.  We got some spoons and a granite teapot etc.

December 1, 1893 - Friday.  A middling fine day.  Rainy in the morning.  Mr and Mrs Higgins started for the shore.  Fred was here all day working.  He came down this morning early.  Misses Emeline Henly and Laura B. Higgins called.Mrs B. and Ida were over to Aunt Ann's a little while.  We baked twelve loaves of bread.  They cleaned the stove today.  Glenn had those spells again tonight.

December 2, 1893 - Saturday.  Cold.  Snow squalls all day.  Thunder last night.  pretty cold tonight.  Wrote to Sylvester.  Fred came down this morning but it was too cold to work, so he went home.  Annie May Crockett and Alice Proven called.  Mrs Blaikie washed this afternoon and I washed the kitchen and pantry.  Made a pair of pants for Roy.  Morrison got another dozen of eggs from Alice Proven.  Uncle S. Johnson was here to dinner.  Howard Graham, Howard Higgins, and Charlie up to Fred's tonight.

December 3, 1893 - Sabbath.  Pretty cold.  Snowing in the evening.  Preaching at the school house in the afternoon.  Morrison stayed home with Glenn and Alden.  We all walked.  Roy and I called in to see Edith a few minutes.  Mr Fraser preached from    Isa. LVIII; 11, first clause.  Adam Johnson's colt ran off.

December 4, 1893 - Monday.  Very wet.  Quite a freshet.  Charlie did not come home last night.  Herb Higgins went to the Doctor with his sore hand today.  D.M. fixed the rocking chair this afternoon.  Charles Proven called tonight.

December 5, 1893 - Tuesday.  pretty fine, but snowing tonight.  Washed this forenoon.  Put out the clothes.  Charlie went down to Aunt Eliza's for axe handle stuff.  He is back and at lodge tonight.  Mrs Blaikie baked pies and a gingerbread, and I made some ginger-snaps.  Also scalded my foot, and made Ida's aprons.  J. Tupper was here with a grist.

December 6, 1893 - Wednesday.  A stormy morning, but cleared off fine.  Aunt Mary Deyarmond and Aunt Anne Graham here making Mrs Blaikie's dress.  Bub drove them home at night.  Baby pretty troublesome.

December 7, 1893 - Thursday.  A pretty fine day.  Wrung out the clothes again and put them out.  D.M. and Charlie down to the Village.  D.M. got some medicine from Doctor Cox for the baby. The Doctor showed him all through his new house.  It is not yet completed.  We sewed some today.  Charlie got Alden a toy gun, and Morrison got Roy one.   We heard that Aunt Mary Webster started for home today.

December 8, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day for the time of year.  Mr John Brown (skeed)  here to dinner.  We had grinding.  Quite a lot of it came today.  Charlie etc. down to Aunt Eliza's to cut poles, I guess.  We were sewing and attending Glenn.  Also baking.  Minnie and Nellie got their dresses today.  I brought in the clothes.  They dried quite well.

December 9, 1893 - Saturday.  A lovely day.  We expected Liss down today, but she didn't come.  Mrs Blaikie went up to the W.F.M.S.  It met at Fred's.  Ralph is not well at all.  Fred was here this afternoon, shingling.  Papa and Sylvester are up at Edith's tonight.  They came home last Wednesday.  I finished my Ulster today - almost.

December 10, 1893 - Sabbath.  Rather a disagreeable day.  Snowing at night.  Fos was home.  There was no preaching in Burnside.  Papa came down from Fred's about two o'clock, but just stayed here a few minutes.  He went home.  Lyman Johnson and Miss Cox were down to church.

December 11, 1893 - Monday.  A squally day.  Cold tonight.  Fos and Bub went away this morning to saw for MacKenzie's.  Charlie set them up.  P.S. Hamilton killed our pig this afternoon.   Sylvester was here to dinner, but went back to Fred's before tea.  Wanted him to stay but he wouldn't.  Baby Glenn is not well today.

December 12, 1893 - Tuesday.  Fine this morning but snowing tonight.  Charlie went down and got the horse sharped this forenoon.  Also got a piece of beef.  After dinner I walked up to see Edith and Ralph, who is sick.  Sylvester was there, and Fred was at the Cove.  Woodbury and Johnnie Willie Graham were here to tea.  They came down with me.  Our pig weighed 180 pounds.

December 13, 1893 - Wednesday.  Quite a fine day.  The old cow laid out last night.  D.M. and Charlie got her this morning.  Fred and Sylvester called this afternoon.  Washed a little this forenoon and washed the pantry and kitchen and baked some "snaps" after dinner.  D.M. was grinding.  I got a couple of papers from Susie W.  Charlie getting wood, and helping How Higgins get home their sheep.

December 14, 1893 - Thursday.  A bitter cold day.  Thermometer twenty below zero tonight.  Fourteen this morning.  We just baked today.  Charlie and How Higgins got wood this forenoon.  William Lays here to dinner.  Mr Frsaser was here this afternoon a short time.   Charlie and some of the Higgins' down to a concert at Cross Roads. The concert is given by one _______ MacKay.

December 15, 1893 - Friday.  Still cold.  But snowing this afternoon.  Sylvester came down this forenoon and is stopping tonight.  It is not quite so cold.  Alice Proven called this afternoon.  Frank Fulton here with a grist.

December 16, 1893 - Saturday.  Not so cold.  Rather stormy tonight.  We cut up half the pig tonight.  Fried out the lard etc. today.  Sylvester went up to Edith's after dinner.  Ed Hamilton here to dinner.  He had a grist.  Charlie and How were getting wood.  Howard here half a day, or from nine until three.

December 17, 1893 -  Sabbath.  Quite a freshet.  The snow off again.  Morrison, Roy, Mrs B. and Charlie at the school house.  Mr Cummings preached.  Charlie etc. down to the church in the evening to a lecture given by Mr Cummings.

December 18, 1893 - Monday.  A pretty fine day.  I washed in the forenoon.     D.M. went up to John S. Brown's to see about trading cows;  and I, Alden and Glenn went down to J.W. Deyarmond's.  We were there to tea.  Mrs Hamilton was not well tonight.

December 19, 1893 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine this forenoon, but raining to night.  Sleet this afternoon. Sylvester's twentieth birthday.  Christy J. Graham called and got a piece of dress-goods this afternoon.  D.M. sawing shingles, grinding, setting up the stove etc. today.  Charlie shingled the roof of the hen house.  I was up to Alice Proven's this afternoon a little while. Mrs B. was down to see Mrs Hamilton.  She is better.  Sylvester went home this afternoon, or rather started.  Howard Higgins here tonight.

December 20, 1893 - Wednesday.  A  pretty fine day.  Charlie took our old cow away today and How brought the new one back.  Howard got back at dinnertime.  Charlie, about half past two.  C.C. Cox sent the youngsters some Xmas toys.  E.A. Logan here with wheat.

December 21, 1893 - Thursday.  Quite a nice day.  Mrs B. baked a ginger cake today.  Charlie went for salt etc. did not get back until dark.  Got some apples, cloves, etc.  A.R. Higgins here to tea.  He was a bit funny.  Mamma and Johnnie came up this afternoon and went up to Fred's.  Then Mamma came back and is staying all night.

December 22, 1893 - Friday.  A fine day.  Some snow fell last night.  Howard Higgins was here working today.  He and Charlie were getting wood.  Johnnie came down about half past ten, and he and Mamma started about half past two.  We made mincemeat this afternoon.  Baby very troublesome.

December 23, 1893 - Saturday.  Snowing tonight.  Howard Higgins here all day helping Charlie getting  wood.  We baked mince and pumpkin pies and doughnuts etc.  Bub and Fos came home tonight.  Herb Higgins and Miss Emmeline Henly went to Westville.

December 24, 1893 - Sabbath.  Rather a nice day.  After dinner,m Mrs B. and I drove over to Aunt Anne's to hear from Aunt Lucy Guild.  She is no better.  Getting weaker.  Uncle Charlie and Aunt Anne came home on Thursday.  Y.S.C.E. met today in the school.  Jude Cox and Joe Woodworth came to Fred's today.  Fred was down a little while.

December 25, 1893 - Monday.  A pretty nice day.  Snowy at night.  Aunt Anne and Uncle Charlie and Eva's baby here to dinner;  and Charles and Alice Proven, Edith , Ralph, Fred, Ed Brown, Joe Woodworth, Jude Cox and Aunt Anne to tea.  There was a shooting at Fred's and a dance at Johnnie Willie's in the evening.  Edith and Ralph stayed all night.  We slept together and D.M. slept on the sofa.

December 26, 1893 - Tuesday.  A snowy blustery day.  Bub and Edith and Fos started off about nine o'clock this morning.  Fos and Bub started for Riversdale but didn't get there.  It was so stormy.  Charlie set out for Greenfield.  We just did the work.  W. Logan and J.T. Hamilton here to dinner.  The former had a grist.

December 27, 1893 - Wednesday.  Dull and heavy.  Thermometer from 12 degrees to 18 degrees below freezing all day.   We baked today.  Mrs Blaikie washed this forenoon.  F. Fulton and W. Patterson commenced logging today.  They are living in the old cellar up here at R.S. Deyarmond's.  Charlie came home this afternoon and is at Lodge tonight.  How Higgins got the loan of our sleds.  Baby can sit alone now.  Alden got his nose hurt by Roy throwing  a shingle.

December 28, 1893 - Thursday.  A lovely day.  Sunshine and quite warm.  Bub went out to Roland Johnson's camp this morning.  Morrison went down along.  I washed this forenoon and washed the kitchen, pantry, out place, and round the mats in the sitting room in the afternoon. Charlie carried some water.  Wm. Patterson hauled four loads of logs today.  Mrs Blaikie was not well today, but is better tonight.  She, Roy, D.M. and Charlie are up to Prayer Meeting.

December 29, 1893 - Friday.  Quite warm.  Thawing a lot.  Charlie and Herb started for Pictou this morning.  D.M. was away this afternoon a while.  B.F. Davidson called.  He was accompanied by Emerson Rutherford and was looking for cattle.  Put in Alden's new sleeves and otherwise repaired his woolen dress, also baked a Johnnie Cake.  Mrs B. churned.  She and I drove up to Mr Higgins' tonight.  We only called.

December 30, 1893 - Saturday.  Quite a nice day.  Mrs B. salted the meat this forenoon.

December 31, 1893- Saturday.  Soft.  Snowing a little.  Service in the school house in the evening.  Mrs B., Bub and I were up.  The sermon was on the "Ephraimites and Manassites"  Edith and Joe Woodworth were there.