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1873 Feby 28 Cut down old field toward fresh [field]
for Logs & coal to day we are cutting Logs [t????]
Poles Ribs &C &C out next to old orchard for [Barn]
to be built this year If we have good Luck the
weather is very cold & wind Blows - [??????]
March 1st Beautiful morning clear pretty day & we
are cutting Logs in Pines next to Mr Lewis's for a [Barn]
to day & Davy gone to Mr Templetons to roll Logs
clear night Stars shining tolerable cold & behold [???]
2nd day of March Sunday morning Snowing & Keeps [on]
nearly all day wind has ceased not very cold I [went]
down to Mr Yates yesterday he fixed my Big Gun &
they have nearly finished grinding my wheat Doct [Estes]
has bot 2 Bbls flour paid for 1 & spoke for [another]
Sold one good Bbl to John Templeton & got the money
for it yesterday all the snow nearly gone this
3rd March 1873 & quite windy & cold. Kit & his hands
cutting Logs for Barn this morning & finishing
Snowing again this morning making 12 or 15 Snows this winter
4th Finished cutting Logs for Barn yesterday
very windy & cold all Day & last night wind blows
yet from N W & the thermometer [thermometer] this morning is down
to 11 Degrees about Sun rise Sun 1 Hour high
15 Degrees. Wind very high from N W ground as hard
as a Rock began to Burn Plant Bed next to Neals
Clear fair weather at this morning.
5th Still Burning plant Bed above the one next
Martha Neals, & thank the Lord no wind this day
& not so cold as yesterday 16 Degrees Soon this [????]
[Star] the young Cow we milk & the Bull
6 Finished Burning Plant Bed yesterday & to day fixing
sewing it & fencing it shelling corn Hauling up
Oats this evening clear pretty day tho the [ground]
dont thaw much, Seed Tobacco from old place last
fall Did not finish plant Bed till about night
7 Halling up Oats to get out to Sew, Hauled wood
cutting wood sent Davy to Yates Mill carried 4 1/2