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cake and boiled some potatoes for supper. I was just clearing away the dirty dishes I had made when all the folks excepting Caroline rode up, she was going to stay all night with Mrs. Herdes? little girl where Mama and she had spent the day. Papa had? been siding up the house and had both ends and some of the north side done. We think of moving in next monday; Olliver has been unclear boards & logs & has planted some corn. Mama liked the looks of things very much. After supper Papa took his milk unclear and went off to the Prairie to milk a cow which had calved a steer calf in the afternoon Mr. Cole brother to Ruffus Cole and the one that is unclear for us came to stay all night 19. Today it has been excessively warm, the sun and ground nearly burned one.