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Thursday 27 February 1908 Somewhat cloudy light flakes of snow falling, very still, no rain. The boys - V & Ray go to Daily's woods to split wood. Maud put up their dinner in the big basket. They also carried our tea pot but they will steep the tea in the woods for since the catastrophy at Marjy's, Ray wont eat their lunch in the house nor steep the tea in their stove. Well tis 11 am and Maud is doctoring her toe corns and I will begin to look after the dinner. Edy phoned to inquire for V, and says he is coming up this evening. Maud worked on rug. I pieced 4 cabin blocks. Boys came when supper was ready said Mrs Daily is sick. Dont have any doctor. Merrit says if he employed a Dr it would cost $50.00 and then, if she died, it would cost him $50.00 for funeral expenses which would make a round hundred and he might as well save $50.00. Said he has been sick many times and never yet had a doctor in all his life. Kent came to see about drawing the school wood from the villiage and wants [margin] Voltie to go to Watertown with him as he never was in Watertown but V cant leave work to go to Watertown again. Ed Bates did not come up this evening. Boys split and put up 4 cords of wood to day

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Friday 28 Feb. 1908 A fine clear cold day, Wind West. V and Ray took their dinner basket and gone to Dailys woods. Piece one block and cut a lot of strips for log cabin. Grandad choring around and reading all day. Frank has got every thing moved except 5 calves. He is going over to the McCombs settlement to play for dance at Miron Lingenfeldters. Will Dixon is going to help him. Nothing particular occured to day. Maud made two pies (apple) and a cake, baked bread, and beans. Another egg. Boys came home early - about 5 pm, we had supper nearly ready. They report Mrs Daily better. They sort and clean every apple that were in the barrels in kitchen, put them back again and head the barrels, 4 of them in all. After making out the memorandum for groceries, I write a letter to Grace. V and R retire earlier than usual, tired and have to rise early. V phoned to Frank. W to borrow his big sleigh to carry his apples to market. Frank said yes certainly. Maud phoned to Mrs Pimyer and Irene [margin] Evening mail; a letter from Bobson saying he has shipped the Phonograph, a card from Grace, and the Herald, also a letter from some woman purposing to cure me of some female complaint which I have not got. I burn the papers all, just sickening such things

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Leap year Saturday 29 Feb 1908 A beautiful morning. V after going to Franks for sleigh, loaded the apples and drives away. Before he went he brought the churn down stairs. It dry and leaks like a seive. Maud hustled around helped wash dishes, cleaned floors, then went across with Ray to Margys to spend the day carrying her a book and a few apples. After dinner dishes washed churning done, churn washed, Our first churning is about 3 lbs or more. V brought the churn down stairs this morning. Seeded a pound of raisons for fruit cake. I have not seen any one to day, no traveling on land or ice and such a beautiful day. Prince and the cats sunning themselves on the verandah. The last day of Frebruary is the most beautiful day of all the winter. V came about 8 pm bringing groceries galor but left his sugar in Kingston - 100 lbs. Ray & Maude came just before sundown in time for Maud to set the supper table. We pass a chatty merry evening till nearly 12 pm.

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Sunday 1st March 1908. A still, quiet day. No one came. The family pass the time reading. I read a book. Lib sent me a book called "Under the Shadow of The Black Pine". A story of ye olden times of the settlement of the Puritans on the shore of Massachusetts Bay, a severity of their religious code & creed which amounted to tyrany. They carried their religious fanatascism [sic] to a terrible extreme. Maud gets the dinner and after dishes washed takes a nap of forty winks on the lounge while I get the supper and then I arouse Maud to set the table. V reads most all day. Ray studying geography. Sr reading all day in the kitchen. Along about 4 pm becomes cloudy and snow beginning to fall.

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Monday 2nd March 1908. A very bad day for weather; raining and blowing & freezing. After breakfast I wash dishes, take care of the milk, Maud makes beds, sweeps and tidies up everything. V and Ray cleans up seed oats. Grandpa milks, feed pigs, then sits by the kitchen stove and reads. I piece a couple block for quilt work and laze around; experiment on a new kind of cake. Dont suppose it will be good for any thing. Maud trying to ring up central but a failure. Guess something is wrong with the copper line.