Monday, August 31, 1868

This has not been a very pleasant day. It has rained most of the time. Melia is real sick to day. She has not been up yet. She thinks she feels a little better to night.

Maria washed to day, and I helped do up the work and done some baking.

Rob and Bill went down this morning to get the groceries we want for hop picking.

I have commenced taking my iorn again.

Sunday, August 30, 1868

A real pleasant day. We did not go to church to day. There was no preaching at the W. E. church. The minister is gone to conference.

Lois Chappel and her father came up this morning and staid till afternoon and went home. They had not been gone but a few minutes when Mr. and Mrs. Houchen came up and they staid until dark, so we have not been lonely.

Saturday, August 29, 1868

Saturday, August 29 1868

This has been a very warm and windy day. We have been baking and moping and doing a little of everything to day.

I feel some better than I did last night.

Rob went up to Mr. Brigg’s last night and took the strange [?] ticks [?] to fill, ready for hop picking.

Our folks have been cutting corn to day.

I finished one sash this afternoon.

Thursday, August 27, and Friday, August 28, 1868

Thursday, August 27, 1868

Another warm day. My cold is better to day.

Melia and I have been quilting real steady all day to day. We have got one quilt almost done. It is Maria’s star quilt.

Melia and I went down town after tea to get some things Billy and father had sent in the letter for. We got them. Billy’s was a set of very pretty jewelry and Pa’s was a shirt.

Friday, August 28, 1868

Another pleasant day, and very warm. We finished of our quilt, and I commenced my sash this afternoon.

I fell almost sick to day. I have got the dysentery that is going around. Almost everybody has it.

Our folks commenced cutting the corn to day. They cut that in the hop field, and Mr. Cassidy [?] came to blast the stones. We all went out and seen it done.

Wednesday, August 26, 1868

And still another warm day. My cold is a little better to day.

We put a quilt in the frames and commenced to quilt some.

We are very busy getting ready to commence picking hops [a] week from to day. Everything needs rain very bad. How I wish we could have a nice shower!

We are going to Save a nice lot of peaches and apples again this fall.

Tuesday, August 25, 1868

This has been a very warm day, and I feel quite well, excepting being very hoarse with my cold. Ruth and I and Melia walked down to the village after tea this evening to mail some letters. I wrote to Add to day, and Ruth wrote to James. Ruth got some ribbons to make Gerty a sash to wear with her white dresses. It was 25¢ per yard.