22 Cold east wind to-night. Several people in. Dad & PJ went to Town to-night. Letter from Marion. Very wet in Ont.
23 S. A lovely day all day. Three cars in this afternoon. Heber out to supper, brought two English lads with him. Tim & Ian went to Church.
24 11A. A lovely day. Power off until 10 AM but got a good wash out before dinner. Getting ready to paint and paper the kitchen. Went to Rustico in evening.
25 Pauline painting. Mr Smith & Clive Stewart came before dinner and Clive is boarding here for a while.
26 Still at kitchen. Papered and painted. A nice day. Dad planted the potatoes and has the drills made for the garden stuff.
27 Pouring rain to-day. Grant not up.
28 Fog all day, and cold. Terribly wet and late spring in Ontario.
29 Rained part of day. We went to Town after supper. Took Mrs Fred & Clive with us. Saw “Amazing Mrs Holiday”.
30 Rained and snowed all day. Quite a snow storm in afternoon. Temp 33. Heber out. Rained hard all night.
31st Still pouring rain this morning but stopped around noon but has not cleared up
June The first week of June very wet and cold. We went down to Keiths on the 1st rained next day. Chester Macdonald married on June 2nd and coming to the Island for his honeymoon. Married Ida Burrill.
June 1943
Pauline finished house cleaning on the 4th and Mr & Mrs Ralph Hughes spent the weekend here. A honeymoon couple from St. John. Sent Lorraine 3 pks potatoes on the 5th. Heber and Vernon Harding & Jean Nicholson came out Sunday night. Gaspereau in but we didn’t get any.
7th Washed, a lovely day. We took Mable Stewart & Margaret Moore into Town with us. Pauline got her suit.
8 As busy as we could be and terribly tired to-night. A big ironing and Pauline helping Dad in garden and setting out plants that we got in Town.
9 Pauline & Ernest went over to Park Corner for Chester and Ida. We took them to Rustico and to see May and Alec. May very poorly and Alec has a sick horse. Put a quilt in frames.
10 Alec’s horse better. We took Chester & Ida to Town and to Park Corner. Went to see Mrs Mutch. Tired at night.
11 Quilting. It’s a big job. Lovely weather.
12 Pauline went to Town and they went to Pictou on
13 the Northumberland Ferry and missed their return boat and had to stay in New Glasgow over night. It rained hard here and we had seven RCAF five of them WDRCAF here in afternoon. The Air ways Bus brought about 50 down from S. Side.
14 Cloudy in the morning and I didn’t wash. PJ got home after dinner. Quilting and tired at night. Allen Millar came to work to-day.
