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Mon NOVEMBER 18. Quite nice to day. I went to town this morning to help Rufus Loundsberry [Jerave?] up. Got home between 1 and 2 O clock found Mr Rickets s machine here threshing. Lew and Dave and Mr Dixon and Will helped and we got through just before night so the machine got away. The wheat panned out 246 bush [bushels] and the oats panned out 69 bush [bushels].

Tues NOVEMBER 19. Cloudy all day more or less. Lew started after timbers and poles to build a cow stable. I have been choring all day down about the barn fixing up the straw stacks and saving the nails and lumber and poles and other work getting cleaned up after threshing.

Wed NOVEMBER 20. The wind blew pretty hard all day after a spell in the morning. Dave and I shucked corn in the forenoon up at windy hill but we thought that it was most [almost] too windy to shuck so Dave went to town and I straightened up the wood pile and cleaned out the hen houses and that was about all I done this afternoon.

Thurs NOVEMBER 21. Windy again to day but not very cold. Dave and I fixed up the aflalfa straw stacks then finished husking out the corn up there. Willie Bottsford helped us. Then this afternoon we ground the adz and Broadaxe draw share hand axe chopping axe hatchet etc and I filed the rip saw the broken hand saw the little weather bearding saw so now they are all ready for work.

Fri NOVEMBER 22. A delightful day still and nice. Lew hauled a load of wheat to town. It panned out fifty bushels or 30.35 lbs. We got another load ready on the wagon. Dave and Mother went to town to attend to the butter and trade some. They attended the funeral of Prof Cassady. I worked at the cow barn timbers found them awful hard they are red spruce and awful crooked but I expect to make them do.

Sat NOVEMBER 23. Pretty nice all of the fore part of the day but this afternoon it has been quite squally giving us a little snow but it melted pretty near as fast as it come. Lew hauled two loads of wheat to town and the buckwheat too about 12 bushels strong. I worked at hewing the stuff for ties and rafters for the cow barn and had to work in the old house some of the time this afternnoon.

Sun NOVEMBER 24. Cloudy mostly and snowed a little this afternoon. R L Tonney staid [stayed] here last night and this morning him and I went up and looked at the alfalfa straw at windy hill and then Mother Lew and I went home with him and visited and looked at his cows and things but somehow we couldnt trade.

Mon NOVEMBER 25. Cloudy all day and spit snow a little in the fore part of the day. Lew took a load of wheat to town and Dave went with him. They brought back a load of coal then Lew hauled a load of rubbish for wood from about the barn. I worked at dressing out rafters and find it a terrible slow job but I frame them too.

Tues NOVEMBER 26 Quite a good day, but the wind was most too strong in the middle of the day. Lew and I worked at the stuff for the cow barn.

Wed NOVEMBER 27. Beautiful day to day all day. Dave and I went to town thinking to do a lot of business but Mr Carleton was disappointed in getting some money and so were we. Lew worked about home and done various little jobs.