IMH 74:4 360

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Tuesday, December 21st

A cloudy day with the thermometer just about the freezing point so that very little freezing was
done or thawing either. Father took part of the buckwheat and six sacks of corn and went up to
High Rocks Mills with it getting back about three o'clock. I built up the fence again at the corner of
Bill Hand's wheat which Alvin took out last spring, and I let the calves into the stalks but not where
the cows were. It seems that Alvin did not get the buckwheat done Saturday as he was at it again
to-day. I tinkered around at various other things, and Alvin was in the squiz-shop part of the time.
May and Henry Garrison brought home the sausage-mill which Riley borrowed a week ago They
came at about seven o clock in the evening, and staid about an hour.