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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. This Morning the Flemmings boy came over to drive off a couple of cows which papa is going to let Mrs. F use till her cows come. Papa and Olliver went to the claim as usual Mama & I to washing & Dick to unclear wood and hops in his waggon. Charley spent all the [[afternoon?] stuffing up holes in the fence with straw, to unclear out his pigs? but they could push it out as fast as he put it in. In the afternoon he served a little unclear and the rest of the day he spent in preaching to an old man who came here. We have finished our washing and dried our clothes 20 Today I went over to the claim and took my patchwork I brought up water from the spring till 11 o clock then served the rest of the time, in, the evening I struck through: sewed played backgammon with Caroline the water was to put on my plants which were doing finely some being in bloom 21st I went to the claim today sewed some cabbage seed set out some garlics and planted some celery it was an extremely warm day so I could not work later than 11 o.clock. In the forenoon? Papa measured off some