June 1936
7 Perfectly beautiful day. Thermometer 80F and over. Reuel’s out to cottage. Very quiet afternoon. YP Service in UC at night. Burnt Offering. It went off awfully well – church practically full.
8 Lovely day – did a whale of a wash and ironing. Morning hot but wind east in afternoon. Bonnell family arrived. Letters from Montreal. Play ‘Country Minister’ in Milton. Left here about 8 o’clock and everybody nearly dead. Brought home $15. Terrible fog.
9 Wind still east and quite cool. Feeling not so good. Clarence and Dad started the roof. We girls cleaned back stairs & landing. Everybody fine at Keith’s. Neta & Pauline & I to Clinton to hear ‘Valley Farm.’ Avalah out. Some show! We are nearly convinced that we are fairly good actors!
10 Very warm day 80. Men still at roof and what a mess. Cleaned Hayden cottage & moved out – also got the southwest bedroom ready for work. I went over to see Ern McNeill in evening.
11 Lovely day. Papered ceiling & painted floor of bedroom and started tearing paper off southeast room. What a job! Several sharp showers in afternoon that stopped work on roof. Milton play. ‘Where’s
June 1936
Gramma?’ at Hall. Made [blank]. Awfully good play. Practically finished transplanting flowers.
12 Wind northeast, cloudy and cold. Grand for the plants. Neta in garden again in morning – and we finished stripping paper! YPS at Manse. Dad went to Hunter River in afternoon.
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13 Foggy and none to warm. Shingled and papered the South East room and guess they were all in at night.
14 Lovely morning, very warm. Arthur brought me up. Just got dinner over along came Gordon Lydie Ruth John & Bobby and Reg and Gordon G[?]. Reuels in for a while in evening.
15 Everybody on the jump to-day. Clarence & Dad finished south roof. Girls papered two ceilings and I did the cooking. Peter here putting out manure for turnips.
16 Very warm in morning and a cold nor-easter at night. Girls washed and I went to Institute Convention in afternoon. Good crowd and meetings.
17 Cold day. Clarence scraping floors of big rooms. Girls papered the ceiling of front room. Busy day. Institute at Dolph Flemings.
18 Not a bad day but a long busy one. Clarence here working on roof. Girls got two room floors waxed and polished and papered the hall ceiling and started the walls.
