April 30, 1869 - May 10, 1869

1869 April 30^th Richard hilling his new ground
to day - quite cool & cloudy.

May 1^st Opened Lugs & short Striped Raining this
morning & rained all night quite cool
stoped raining & we halled wood etc etc Still cloudy

2^nd May Rained all night last night ^again & a
little cool fencing around cornfield
very wet & quite cool I shall not go to ^Mr Sam^l Millers ^{to day}
my Hogs with Pig Spayed by Mr Moses done well
this day windy & in evening very cool & wind NW

3^rd Some front last night but none to hurt
very windy & Cool again to day putting up
shelter at old prize Barn hauled some leaves
in Stables on hill Picking up roots in new ^ground

4^th Finished Hilling new ground up at Richard
Halling out manure, cloudy & likely for rain
quite cool yet corn coming up tolerable we^-llll
Burning roots Hauled Load Leaves to my Stable

5 Raining this morning & weather moderate
our Irish Potatoes are coming up very badly
our Turkeys & Chickens are Dying
with some disease & have been 2 or 3 weeks
Pulled up Rye & cockle out of wheat this evening

6^th Raining again this morning & has been more
or less ever Since 1st May took down & Bulk our
Lugs & short Tobacco & finished striping my Tobacco
got Richards to strip yet. cloudy & cool yet -

7^th Still cloudy & cool will strip in Richards Barn
to day I expect to ^{go to} P.O. & old place Rained
some So unlikely that I did not go.

8^th Sally H Whitehead had a Girl child ^{named Nannie}last night
about 9 oclock very likely & done well
Lowry went after mules etc that got out & went off
yesterday striping Tobacco to day all hands
clear & moderate weather this morning
Hauled some wood in evening I went to P.O. & old
place Mrs Furbush left this evening

9^th I went to Meeting S S. Mr Glass & Plunket there

10^th expect to work on road to day etc etc
Got home from road about 12 oclock picking
& burning roots in new ground & Lowry & Charles coltering
Richard choped some in Garden & Planted Some Greens