January 2 thru 3, 1894

I will not be transcribing each entry since most of Bert's diary is pretty clear. You can read the original more easily by clicking on the image above to view a larger version. I will be including this paragraph, or something similar in each entry so that new readers will know they can click the image to enlarge it for easier reading. Also, there will be some links to the right of the page with relevant information that may be of interest. If you follow Bert's diary regularly, you can skip this paragraph. My notes will include the basics of what Bert talks about each day, along with my own personal thoughts, research, information gleaned from past or future entries, etc. If you have information or suggestions that may help my research, please e-mail me.

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Tuesday, January 2, 1894 ---  Bert comments that it is a fine day, but he is not feeling to well, and spends some time sitting around the house.  He helps with the chores and churns some butter.  He also splits some wood  and puts it in the wood house.  He also helps with the evening chores.  Bert mentions that pa (John Babcock) goes over to visit Charley Corey to discuss buying a farm. 

And in another example of his sense of humor about illness, Bert comments that "i am injoying a season of the belly ache"

Wednesday, January 3, 1894 ---  Another fine day, and the sun shines bright all day.  He helps with the chores as usual,  and he cleaned out the hog pen.    He also went into the woods and cut down five trees, and left one standing.  (Possibly he was thinning the woods for fire wood, and leaving some to grow bigger without competition from the neighbor trees.)  He then trimmed branches on four of the five trees he cut down, and prepared them to saw into firewood.  Bert and Leman do the evening chores.  Leman is his brother.  He has another brother Herman Babcock.  Bert concludes by saying he is feeling better tonight.