May 30, 1894 thru May 31, 1894

If you follow Bert's diary regularly, you can skip this paragraph. 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. 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 ..... especially with input on Bert's coded entries?

Wednesday, May 30, 1894 --- Chores as usual, and then spent a rainy day drawing loads of manure. Russell went over to "his folks" - Milo Dye's place - and finished plowing the field for corn. Bert "drawed dung" and watched it rain. "my head is still ailing"

Thursday, May 31, 1894 --- Another rainy day - chores - then he "turned the cows out" and watched it rain till eleven AM. Bert then "dug liveforever" till noon. (Live forever is a variety of Sedum which must have been a problem on the farm? -- The forever plant (Sedum purpureum), also known as the "live forever," is a showy evergreen plant of the Sedum genus, which is poisonous if ingested.) Bert had dinner around noon, and then spent the afternoon "tearing patent fence to pieces". He then seems to have sharpened at least some of the pieces to use for fence posts?

"my head continues to ail"

May 28, 1894 thru May 29, 1894

If you follow Bert's diary regularly, you can skip this paragraph. 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. 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 ..... especially with input on Bert's coded entries?

Monday, May 28, 1894 --- Rained all forenoon. Bert "turned out the cows" and sat in the barn a while before going up to E. Hayners to borrow a "scrue driver". He used the screw driver to "turn a door around". In the afternoon, Bert got a load of hay from Milo Dye's place. They then drew two loads of stone, and a load of rotten fence rails. They then took Milo Dye a load of firewood. Snow in the afternoon. Bert is still sick.

Tuesday, May 19, 1894 --- Some rain today. Bert did chores as always, and then went over to E. Hayner's place to get Russell's potato marker..... a device drawn behind a horse to make marks that allow the proper spacing of the potato pieces when planting potatoes. Bert then went over to Milo Dye's place and plowed land for planting corn. One of the horses lost a shoe that had just been put on the day before. The plowed until "half past six". They had dinner at Milo's place, and then went back home to do the evening chores. Bert is still sick - "grunting and coughing".