1-1--: Mother and Laura were at Yeppoon and brought Amelia out to Toms for the day. Daisy had a bit of an evening and it was very late when Amelia and I started for her homeward trip. Her folks were awfully worried about her, as they did not know s he would be away for such a long day.
2-1--: I gathered pines and tomatoes and worked a little in the garden. I was a little sleepy from last night. We hear Mother and Laura are having a good time may they come home in good trim is my earnest hope.
3-1--: Cecil and I went to town with about 20 dozen pines and a little other stuff. We got through it fairly well, but had to sell a little cheaper than last time we were round. After I came home I did some harrowing.
4-1--: I cultivated the land I harrowed yesterday and went up to the station for cases. I also went down to the farm and carried a bag of chaff up.
5-1--: It was like rain and I did not go to Church. Eddie Newman and I had dinner at Toms.
6-1--: I got up very early and picked tomatoes and over 30 dozen pines. I cased up 8 1/2 doz and took up to the station for Mac Donald the fruiter of Mt Morgan. It seemed a bit like rain.
7-1--: We went to town with our pines. We did very well although Ernie and Maud saw fit to take a turn on our run. They did themselves no good, as when I explained the position to the people they said it was a mean trick.
8-1--: It rained a lot last night and washed a lot of my soil down the hill. Tom and I went over to Newmans and got 2 bags of sweet spud tops. I got 8 rows out of mine. Tom got about 4, but gave Cecil a lot of his cuttings. Archer had 2 horses drowned in the creek, milk van.
9-1--: Tom started ploughing on my place. I gathered 30 doz pines and grubbed a few roots out, and took a few suckers to the top of the hill and helped to cut chaff. The land is breaking up splendidly an improvement to my place.
10-1-: Cecil and I went to town with our stuff. I had 14 doz pines, a few tomatoes and a Papaw, Pie-melon and 4 pumpkins. We sold nearly all our stuff on Depot Hill an d have left a lot people without. I planted a few rows of pumpkins and helped Tom to make rows for potatoes.
11-1-: Got up and set 4 rows of English potatoes before the rest of the family were astir. I went to town with 5 doz pines and did very well with them. I sold over £ 8 worth this week. After dinner I banked a row of sweet spuds and helped Tom to set a line for his fence.
12-1-: I stayed home and rested, my heel was so skinned and some thought it was best to keep my foot off it for a while.
13-1-: I gathered all the tomatoes I could, got 27 doz pines. I also rode my bike to town and took out an itinerant Vendors License. I bought a couple of packets new tomatoes seeds and sowed them. After I had done this I hoed 3 short rows of pineapples.
14-1-: Ceci l and I got a nice early start with our pines and beat Ernie on to our run. We sold out at about 12.45. We got nice and wet as it rained absolutely, the whole time we were away from home. After I had eaten my dinner I went down to Toms for a case.
15-1-: I cased up 4 doz pines and took to the station and sent them to the places Jim Stewart told me, and of which he gave me the order and addresses. I did some hoeing on the top of the hill and sowed a row of French bean seed. It came on to rain again about 4 o’clock. I am afraid we are going to get a little more than we require just now.
16-1-: I did a little digging and gathered a few tomatoes and pumpkins. I also planted out my Rhodes grass and sowed some pumpkin seed. I also gathered 30 doz pines and planted out the Brazilian Cherry Tree. I dug between a short row of pines and put a few tomato plants in it, it dug very well.
17-1-: We went to town with 38 doz pines and other stuff, we had a fairly good day although it was unpleasant on account of the rain. It rained all last night and made the roads very bad. I caught 4 perch on the way to town.
18-1-: I took my pony to W.Wests paddock. I then got ready and caught the 10.30 train to the Mount. Arthur and I took a ride out to the big dam and back by the road. I called in at Mc Donalds and got the cash he owed me for pines etc.
19-1-: I spent a quite day at the Mount and came home by the night train, the road was very muddy, and I got home all right and to bed.
20-1-: I gathered a few tomatoes and papaws and pas sion fruit. I also picked 31 doz pines and took 100 tomato plants to the top of the hill. I also dug a little ground. The weather is very close and the frogs will persist in telling us that it is going to rain, I suppose theyre right.
21-1-: Cecil and I w ent to town with 40 doz pines and other stuff. We sold out about 1.30. We were fortunate in as much as it kept fine, until we got home. After we came home I dug a bit of ground and banked a few pines. We had a sharp storm in the evening.
22-1-: I picked and cased 10 doz pines and sent up to Arthur, I also dug some ground and picked a couple of tins of cow-pea, beans. It was a bit showery but it seems to have cleared up for awhile. I hope it has for we have had enough for a while.
23-1-: I dug a little ground and gathered tomatoes and a few papaws. I also picked 35 doz pines. Poor old Major got run over by a Motor today and killed outright. The weather has been hot and it is very close tonight. I think we will have more rain.
24-1-: Cecil and I went in with 40 doz pines. We got on all right but had a bit of trouble with the last couple of dozen. The weather was awfully hot and made my headache rather bad. Arthur came down and brought me a Rexaphone and 6 records.
25-1-: I went and helped to cut a bit of chaff, then went round to my place and sowed 2 rows of peas. I also finished banking a row of sweet spuds and greased my new winkers. I felt crook from yesterday and took it a bit easy.
26-1-: I was not very well my jaw was swollen with cold or something so I didnt go out. Ada Fisher came down and had dinner with us and stayed until 9 oclock.
27-1-: I picked 24 lbs of tomatoes and 30 doz pines. I also sowed 4 rows of pea seed. The sun was awfully hot and I was not feeling too good. I banked a few pines and we had an early tea and loaded the fruit ready for an early start to- morrow.
28-1-: Cecil and I got a fair start, but it was just about the same time when we sold out, as it was last Tuesday. The sun always gives me a terrible headache.
29-1-: I cased 9 doz pines and took up to the station for Arthur. When I came back I took Oscar down to the paddock and brought Duke up and cultivated pumpkins and sweet potatoes. Posted letter to a chap about suckers.
30-1-: I picked pines and tomatoes and hoed amongst the pumpkins and sweet potatoes. It seems as though it could easily come on plenty of rain.
31-1-: Cecil and I went to town with our produce and got ringing wet through. We got along all right, but although we had 11 doz less we got all round the run.
1-2--: I planted about 50 pineapple suckers and I put out a lot of tomatoes, papaws and sowed some cowpea seed. It was very close but we never got any rain and the sun came out about 3.30 and flattened the plants down. I am afraid they will die.
2-2--: I went to town and heard the band in the Park and had tea at Earls and went to the Army with them took A home and came home myself.
3-2--: I gathered my pines and tomatoes and went to town and banked my money and got a postal note for W. Kerr for Banana suckers, ca me home and had dinner and wrote letters and pulled suckers and sowed French bean seeds. I rode up to Gracemere on my bike and posted them.
4-2--: Cecil and I went to town with our stuff we did very well, but was a good deal short of pines. I took Oscar back to the dairy, Alick Black was there. I had a look at the horse Charley had for me if he suits I think he is all right for my work.
5-2--: I planted 200 suckers and did some hoeing and cut some grass and weeds with the sickle. I got a few lines from Amel ia, she is a jolly hard case. The weather is very warm I think there must be a lot of rain coming. We have had quite enough for about a couple of weeks.
6-2--: I hoed amongst different crops. The weather is very unsettled.
7-2--: I gathered 22 doz pines and about 20 lbs of tomatoes and did a little other work. A big storm went sailing around but we didnt get any to speak of. I went to the city after tea and got home at nearly 12 oclock P.M.
8-2--: Cecil and I went to town with our produce and did fairly well. My banana suckers came up from Yeppoon. W. Kerr sent them in good order and condition.
9-2--: I did not go out except to the station to post a letter.
10-2-: I planted my banana suckers and did a bit of hoeing. The day was an awfully hot one, but a storm brewed up in the evening and seemed to make it much cooler.
11-2-: I gathered pines and tomatoes and packed 100 suckers to send away. I also went down on my bike and paid Charley for my horse. Cecil and I went down to the farm for marrows, and then we went to the station with pines and tomatoes for Arthur.
12-2-: Cecil and I got a fair start to town with our produce and got rid of it at a fairly good price. When we got home we got our dinner and I took the horse back to the dairy and came back and b anked a few potatoes. Mother and Laura have been to Harriss sale and made the cash fly. The rain hung off all day, but I reckon we are going to have some.
13-2-: I hoed peas and beans. The garden is absolutely full of grass and weed and it seems as thoug h there is going to be a lot of rain. The pines are looking well but choked with weeds. I hope my horse will work all right so I may be able to get ploughed and cultivated through the whole garden.
14-2-: I picked a good few tomatoes and went to town on th e bike and sold them to Dobinson and Mrs Allen. I called at Earls and had a chat with the Mrs, came home and had dinner, got Dick and took Arthur to town and the tomatoes. Came home had tea and drove Laura and Allen in and went to the Army ring and took A llen and sister home and got home myself about 11.30.
15-2-: I cut some weeds amongst the pines and also some cow-pea, went to town after dinner and ordered some trees from Abel, brought Amelia out after tea and let off the Rexophone. Took Amelia home and got home myself about 11.30.
16-2-: I sent the machine over to Newmans. Tom, Eddie and I went to the bower and had a walk round. I went up to Gracemere with Eddie. It was warm.
17-2-: I have just picked my pines and tomatoes and it is awfully warm, that I have come in to the house. I cannot stand this awful weather everything is burning hot.
18-2-: Cecil and I went in with our produce. We sold the pines at an exceptional high price. I had a lot of deformed and sun burnt ones also. After I got home and ha d dinner I cut 3 rows of cowpea. After that I had to try to make my sulky lamps burn but failed.
19-2-: I was up fairly early and Tom, Cecil and I went and spent a nice day at Fairy Bower our clothes were fairly wet through with sweat. We got a good load of posts and had a nice bath in the creek. Laura drove Mrs Gill and her married daughter out and whilst they were out they sold me 6/6 worth of pines. I got 3 Liechardt trees in the Bower and am trying to rear them in pots.
20-2-: Tom, Cecil, and I was at the Bower after blocks, it was awfully hot, but we got back in good time and I picked over 50 lbs of tomatoes.
21-2-: I put my bit of cowpea in the shed and picked a few pines and fixed the tomatoes in a box and tin ready to take to town. After dinner I went to the city with my little cart and made over £ 1 with the bit of stuff I had and I also sold 4/8 worth for Cecil. Got home in a nice time.
22-2-: I worked in the garden amongst the pines. Afternoon I went to a sale at Port Curtis Road and bought a quantity of timber and galvanised iron. I got wet through coming home.
23-2-: I spent the day at the farm. Abel brought out some trees for me and left them at Dunns.
24-2-: I put out over 100 tomato plants and 50 papaws and planted a weeping fig near my gate on the top side. I also fixed up a make shift 1.1 plate printing frame to print Cecils photo. It has rained most of the day.
25-2-: I got an early start and rode the bike as far as Mrs E Wards, Port Curtis Road. Cecil took 4/3 worth of tomatoes to town for m e I gave a chap 15/- for carting a load of timber, I bought at the sale. After dinner I put out the Silky Oak trees. It is still raining.
26-2-: Was a rainy day. I put out the Granadilla plants and tomatoes and also put out some papaws. 6 of those grew fr om the seed Cecil brought from Brisbane. The garden is full of weeds. I got the first beans from the row I planted at the last wet weather.
27-2-: I put out more tomatoes and cut weeds at the top of the hill. I also sowed a few rows of French beans, in the evening I started banking the rows of beans near Thorsens, I didn t do too much as it was fairly rainy throughout the day. Sweet potatoes have nice young ones on and have been planted 7 weeks yesterday.
28-2-: I finished banking the 3 rows of beans and pl anted 2 rows of sweet potatoes. I also gathered a few pines and Cecil and I took them to town. We brought our new suits home. It seems as if we could have some a little fine weather, it has been fine pretty well all day.
1-3--: I got my timber and blocks carted in to my place. Tom and his man helped me for a while, after dinner Mrs Fisher came and took Ada home.
2-3--: I stayed home and read, the weather was too unsettled to go out.
3-3--: I worked in the garden all the morning and after dinner I too k a few tomatoes to Mrs Allen and went round to Port Curtis Road and got the rest of my stuff from the sale. I also went down to the dairy and got my horse so that he would be ready for the morrow.
4-3--: Eddie Newman and I have been ploughing amongst the pines all day. It was the first time I used my horse and he did splendidly.
5-3--: Eddie Newman came over to help me, but the rain came on and made us knock off. We are having an overdose of wet this time. The weeds are pretty well having things all their own way.
6-3--: Was a very unsettled day as far as the weather was concerned. I cleaned my sulky harness and read and poked about the garden between the showers. Weeds have got possession of the garden and a fellow cannot get a show to out them.
7-3--: I knocked out some pines to make a bit of a place at the end of the rows to turn the horse and planted the suckers elsewhere. The day has been a fine one, but towards evening a tremendous storm brewed up and it is raining as I write.
8-3--: Cecil and I went to town with a bit of stuff. We put my horse in for the first time. I got a collar for him cost 25/- Paid West 7/- for agistment.
9-3--: I poked around home all day. The weather was a bit warm. They all went to church except me, Rev Sh aw was in the pulpit.
10-3-: I dug with the vine-hoe amongst the pines near the gate and cut a bit of cowpea. I also gathered a case of tomatoes. After tea I went down to Toms for a case and he showed me a parcel of cloth he had bought from a traveller.
11-3-: Eddie Newman and I ploughed between the pines, banked sweet spuds and ploughed amongst pumpkins. After dinner we hoed amongst the pines, the weather was very warm and I am afraid well get more.
12-3-: I finished digging between the 2 top rows of pines. After that it rained pretty well all day and made it unfit to do anything. It is very close now and raining and thundering. Things seem to be absolutely upset. One can t tell what to make of it. Weeds have possession of all the ground almost and one cant get a chance to combat them. Well. Well. Suppose it will be all right.
13-3-: I did very little. I took a couple of photos of the creek at the bridge and they did not come out very good. I got a bit of tucker for the horse that was about all the wo rk I did. After tea I went round and printed a few photos of Cecil. The frogs are a bit noisy and it is still awfully close.
14-3-: I have to record another scorching hot day. It is too jolly hot to work. I fooled around with photos during the morning and after dinner I hoed some rubbish where I intend putting some pines. The sweat run down a chap today without working
15-3-: I paid a 5/- Subscription to the Gracemere School of Arts. I also sent a postal note to Harringtons to value of 10/6. Mother and Laura went over to Beals.
16-3-: I went to church Whyte was in the pulpit and spoke about David Livingstone the Great Missionary. I went to Wards for tea. Mrs Allen and Miss Lee were there also.
17-3-: I gathered a few French beans and tomatoes and hoed a couple of rows of peas. After dinner I picked a bit of maize and poked around the garden and otherwise put in my time until knock off.
18-3-: I cased up beans and tomatoes and hoed a few pines and picked a little corn. I also knocked out some pines and burned some rubbish. The weather is a little cooler now to what it has been and I think that it is possible the rain may go off.
19-3-: I cut a bit of rubbish with the sickle and ploughed a piece of land for pines. After dinner I knocked out more pines and planted a row, where I ploughed this morning.
20-3-: I dug between rows of peas with a pronged hoe and planted more pines. I also gathered some tucker for the horse and picked a few French beans. The weather is a little cooler than it has been and the air is much clearer.
21-3-: I fed my horse and got tidy and rode my bike to Gracemere. I had some dinner at Wards and went over to the School of Arts and got 6 books to read. Bob Beal was here when I came home and we knocked around all the afternoon. I took some ph otographs.
22-3-: I finished prong hoeing the peas and washed the mud off the wheels of my sulky. After tea I went and got Cecils photos and Mothers mounted them, they look very fair.
23-3-: I went to the Seventh Day Adventist Chapel and practised a little singing. After which I came home and went up to he C.E. Anniversary, it was a nice meeting.
24-3-: I picked some French beans and fixed my horse up for the day. After which I went up to the Endeavour united picnic. Everyone seemed to spend a nice enjoyab le time and went home a little tired, but with a satisfied feeling. I saw them off by train.
25-3-: I picked a few tomatoes and cased them up with the beans ready for Tom to take to the station. It has come on to rain again, worse luck. I hoed a row of pines and finished planting a row below the passion fruit.
26-3-: I hoed amongst the pines and pulled all the maize I had left. The weather is fine but a little too hot for this time of the year. Sweet spuds planted 11 weeks today.
27-3-: I finished hoeing th e pines on the top of the cutting and cut most of the cowpea. The day has been a very warm one and the perspiration run down in to my eyes and made them very sore. Cecil and I went to S.D.A. Chapel to try our quartets over. A big storm swept over the town and made things crook.
28-3-: I hoed nearly all-day and cut a bit of cowpea. It has been awfully windy some of the day and now in the evening it is quite cold and cloudy. Mother went up to Boongary and spent the day with Mrs Jones. The insects of one sort or another are eating everything before them.
29-3-: Finished cutting the cowpea and picked a few beans, also hoed a couple of rows of pines. After dinner I drove Laura over to Beals and took 6 photos. After tea I mixed developer and took them out, some of them fair negatives.
30-3-: Cecil, Eddie and I drove to town and attended practice at the S.D.A.Chapel went to Webers for tea and back to the chapel and helped render 2 or 3 items.
31-3-: I hoed amongst the pines and gathered tomatoes. I also went to town and did a little shopping. After tea I went down to Tom and had a bit of a yarn. It came up a bit like rain in the afternoon but cleared away in the evening and was quite cool.
1-4--: I hoed a bit and printed some post cards and mixed some stuff to spray the fruit trees. After dinner I sprayed the trees and did some more hoeing. It has been coming up a lot like rain lately and is quite warm.
2-4--: I hoed 3 rows of pineapples. The weather was quite warm again and seems awfully like rain. After supper it blew a gale and I thought it would be pouring, down at the time of writing, but it is hanging off. Wish it would keep fine for a few weeks and give a chap a chance to clean the garden of weeds.
3-4--: The place is chock full of grubs and caterpillars, dra t them. Cecil and I went and met Eddie with stuff and came back and put my horse in the cart and got in my cowpea, after which we went to the farm, and got Cecils marrows and when we came back I chopped down some maize stalks.
4-4--: I put a shelf up to put photo material on and picked a few beans, gathered some tomatoes and dug 4 kerosene tins of sweet potatoes. I also hoed round the silky oak trees. It came on to rain and at time of writing this, it seems as if it could set in for a lot of it.
5-4--: Cecil and I went to town with produce. The weather was very hot. I bought 2 hoes and some handles for Tom. I also went to the School of Arts and changed my books. When I came back I took mothers photo. It did not come out too good.
6-4--: Was an awfully muggy day for the time of year. I went and had a bit of a look round down at Toms.
7-4--: I finished hoeing the smooth leaf pines, finished digging the row of sweet spuds, I started Friday and hoed some pines at the top end of the garden. After tea I went round to my place and printed post cards and it is the first time I ve had them blister.
8-4--: I hoed pines and other odd jobs. It was very warm just about the middle of the day. It has seemed like rain but it passes away every time.
9-4--: I dug sweet potatoes they have been planted 13 weeks and picked peas, beans and tomatoes. I also hoed pines. Things are getting rather dry. The weeds are taking what bit of moisture there is in the ground.
10-4-: We took a bit of produce to the city. Some of our customers were out so we didn t do as well as I expected we would. We got home before dinner. I hoed a row of pines. Hoeing is awfully slow work this is on account of the ground being so hardened.
11-4-: I hoed a row of pines in the before noon part of the day as well as burn the corn storks on the ground where the cowpea was. There were a few storms during the day that blocked work a little, but I hoed another row before knock off time.
12-4-: I hoed a row of pines. It came on to rain so I put out some mango trees a nd potted some passion fruit plants. After tea I took a stroll down to Toms and had a yarn about one thing and another. When I came back the moon was shining brightly and the rain seemed to have cleared away.
13-4-: Bob Beal brought Annie out here on her bike. They went up to the church with Annie and us went up to the station with me when I took A.M.Johnson and his wife.
14-4-: I hoed 3 rows of pines and made a bit of a start with the shed I am going to build. After tea I went round to my place and printed 18 post cards. The weather has seemingly taken up and it is exceptionally clear up in the sky to night.
15-4-: I gathered a few tomatoes and sent them up to Arthur. I also finished mending a chair and dug some sweet and English potatoes.
16-4-: I picked peas and dug more sweet potatoes and gathered a few beans. I also put some posts in for the shed, and hoed some pines. After tea I went down to the dairy and saw Charley, I came back through Toms and got the Cross cut Saw. It was rather cool when I came h ome. The funeral of Lydia Lacey took place today.
17-4-: We went to town with a little produce. I made £ 1 all but a penny. When I came home I did a little to the shed and hoed a row of pines. After tea I printed 12 photos and went to Gracemere and got some books and was at the Endeavour meeting, there was only a poor attendance.
18-4-: I got Cecil to help me to cut the tops off the blocks and I mixed poison for Cecil to kill saplings with. After dinner I got the roof ready for the iron all but the effacure board. It came on to rain and has rained a good lot already.
19-4-: I put out about 170 papaw plants and hoed around 36 that were put out a bit back I also sawed the ends off purloins and stacked timber under the verandah I am building. There were several showers during the day, which kept things bit damp.
20-4-: Has opened up a splendidly fine day. I went to church and heard a discourse by the Rev Bongers of the Congregational Church, there wasnt a very good attendance.
21-4-: I hoed amongst the pines. The day was very warm on account of the sun shining so strong. Mother and Laura spent the day at Beals. I went up to the church with Eddie Newman. A new committee was licked and there arose a little dispute with regard to Adam Armstrong.
22-4-: I put the iron on the roof of the verandah and dug a nice lot of sweet spuds and hoed pines. I went down to Toms with my horse and gave him a start. It was very hot again today.
23-4-: I gathered tomatoes and dug potatoes, picked peas, hoed amongst pines and picked 4 and also 3 papaws and dug a hole for a shed post. The afternoon was an awfully hot one. I think it must be going to rain.
24-4-: Went to town with produce and brought a bit of timber out for the making of a boat and 4 pieces of wood for my shed. In the afternoon I hoed amongst the pines.
25-4-: I started making a boat for Cecil to get his ducks out of the lagoon. I also hoed 22 rows of pines. After tea I took a stroll to Toms and had a bit of a yarn and a lemon squash and came home.
26-4-: I started to make a boat for Cecil and did some hoeing. I also got Dick and drove Laura over to Beals, we went to Jack Abels and paid him what I owed him.
27-4-: I went to church. Maskell was in the pulpit, there was a splendid attendance.
28-4-: I went on with the hoeing and did a bit to the boat. Mother and Laura went to town to Jim Conaghans funeral. I am keeping Dick in he is ticky and not looking too good at all.
29-4-: I was building the boat all day. Cecil did a little hoeing and then he helped me at the boat, it is practically finished. The pitch makes a splendid job of the bottom. Cecil is camping at the dairy.
30-4-: I finished the boat and we put it in the creek, it let in very little water. Cecil took it down to the lagoon after dinner. I dug 1 1/2 bags of sweet potatoes and hoed 2 rows of pines, it has come up very much like rain. Mother is down at the farm sewing.
1-5--: I dug sweet potatoes and did a little hoeing. I also picked a few peas and tomatoes. It was a little like rain but the wind seemed to clear it off. Cecil shot 11 ducks.
2-5--: We went to town with our stuff. It was quite cool when we went in but after dinner it was rather warm in the sun. I bought a second hand New Langton Mitre box for £1/ 5/- saw included, it seems to be in perfect order. I went up to the Mount.
3-5--: I was at Mt Morgan. I poked around the shop and helped Arthur to load 3 loads of wood, his carter didnt turn up, so he had to do the work himself. Arthur bought me a forge and anvil from one of his customers.
4-5--: I was at the Mount. I came home by the 5.30 train.
5-5--: I hoed a row of pines before 10 oclock. I then dug a bag of sweet potatoes. After dinner I took the sweet potatoes to the chinamans place, he wasnt home so I left them on his verandah. After I came home I hoe d a good part of a row of pines.
6-5--: I went on with the hoeing. I also cut a frame out with the Mitre box I bought last Friday but I did not make too good a job of it.
7-5--: There was a bit of a smash among the horses. I had to get up very early to t hem and found my pony on top of the gate. A mare had got a nasty hole on the back of her leg. I had to fix the gate. I also hoed and dug between 2 and 3 bags of sweet spuds. The weather is taking a wintery turn at last and things are getting awfully dry .
8-5--: I went to town with the produce. I got on very well and sold out. After I came home I did a little hoeing and also cut out a photo frame. I went to Christian Endeavour and also to the Library and changed my books. There was not many adults at Endea vour but several children.
9-5--: I hoed amongst the pines and got a load of thistles, went to the station and got my forge and anvil, had an early dinner and drove Art to town and bought 2 pieces of picture glass for 9d. Mc Mahon of Gladstone called about Pines.
10-5-: Was an unsettled day with regard to the weather and I didnt do any hoeing as I thought the weeds wouldnt die. I went down to Toms and got tomato plants and put them in, but I am afraid there will not be enough rain for them.
11-5-: Has opened up to a fine but sultry day.
12-5-: I put out tomato plants and other plants as well. It was a fine rain we got and will do a lot of good.
13-5-: I put up a bit of a start towards a smiths shop, and framed a photo.
14-5-: I poked around the place doing different things.
15-5-: I dug potatoes and got all the other produce ready for town. I sowed a few chestnut seeds.
16-5-: Went to town with our stuff. I came across the chow and he paid me for the bag of spuds I took him the other week. When I came home I had to dig a couple of bags and take to him.
17-5-: I have a sore heel and can hardly get about with it. I poked about awhile and then came home and watched Mr Beal doing the front room and then I went down to Toms for tea.
18-5-: I was at church A.W.Shaw was in the pulpit and there was a very fair attendance I went to Wards and had tea.
19-5-: I hoed amongst the pines and tomatoes. I also cut glass for photos and also cut out picture frames. After tea Tom and I took up a bit of wood to boil the water for tomorrow night. When I came home I had a game of Snakes and Ladders.
20-5-: I hoed tomatoes and did a bit of picture framing. After tea I went to Gracemere to the Annual meeting of the Church. It was a fairly good meeting, but Press caused a bit of a stir.
21-5-: I hoed the tomatoes and got the stuff ready for town. After dinner Cecil helped to do a bit at my shed. I also fixed the forge and it is nearly right for, to make a start at ironwork.
22-5-: We went to town with our stuff. It we a bit showery but we got home in a fairly dry condition. After dinner Cecil helped me to do a bit to my shed. It was too wet looking to go to Christian Endeavour.
23-5-: I hoed a fairish bit of the tomato land and fastened the plates to my shed, and put a frame together for a picture. I am doing for Mrs H Dunn.
24-5-: I hoed tomatoes and went to town on the bike and bought several things. Afternoon I was framing pictures. We had a very heavy storm during the night.
25-5-: I went to church. Mr Ford occupied the pulpit. Eddie and I went down to Wards and had tea and sang a little.
26-5-: I finished the flat of tomatoes and started to dig between the pines near to them.
27-5-: I dug between pines and took 2 photos. I finished digging between the lot of pines next to the tomatoes. After tea I printed some photos of Cecil.
28-5-: I hoed amongst pines and got stuff ready for town tomorrow. After dinner I took Lauras Photo. I sent Arthur a case of tomatoes.
29-5-: We took our stuff to the city I brought out a bit more timber for my shed. After I came home I made a picture frame and put a couple of pictures on mounts. The weather has turned quite sultry and I am afraid we will get more rain than we want
30-5-: It has been very wet all day. We are having too much rain this time. I put out some tomato plants and also some papaw plants. I finished Mrs Dunns photos, and worked at my shed. I had to take Oscar to the paddock.
31-5-: I put out tomato and papaw plants and sowed a pound of pea seed. I also did a little to my shed. I went up to vote but got tired of waiting, and came home. I sent to Horderns for some goods.
1-6--: I went to church. The Salvation Army Officer was in the pulpit. I went to Morrells for supper at their kind invitation.
2-6--: I finished cutting out the spars for the shed, and after that I came round and got Cecil to help me and we got the roof practically ready for the iron.
3-6--: I worked awhile at the shed and then went to the picnic. I got there in time for dinner. We had a fair day and there were quite a goodly number there. The weather was fine and warm.
4-6--: I have been working at the shed. And printing a few photos. I also got produce ready for tomorrow. The cool wet weather has made things steady down with regard to growth and tomatoes and pines are not ripening well at all.
5-6--: We went in with our stuff. I bought a pair of pants for kicking about in and I also got varnish to do mothers buggy and my sulky. The weather has taken a much warmer turn.
6-6--: I put the iron on the roof of the shed. Vicary came down about a job and I arranged for him to start work on Monday next.
7-6--: I worked a bit at the shed, and after dinner Tom and I went to Jack Abels and got some rose trees.
8-6--: Cecil, Eddie and I drove to service at the Baptist Tabernacle, it was rather cool on the road home.
9-6--: I put a wall up on the back of the shed. After supper Ceil, Eddie and myself drove in to the C.E. Rally. There was a very good attendance and some excellent papers read. It was raw coming home.
10-6-: I gathered tomatoes, dug a few sweet spuds and varnished the phaeton also my bicycle. I got the parcel from Horderns. Everything is up to my expectation and I am pleased with the lot.
11-6-: I varnished my sulky and picked peas. I also put the ridge capping on the shed. I pruned the peach tree and a rose bush. The weather is a bit like rain. Sowed Duke of York tomato seed.
12-6-: I made a 10 ft ladder, and gave the boards Pete put in mothers house a dose of boiled oil. I had a go at clipping Dick and helped Tom to cart Lucerne I also mended a puncture.
13-6-: I started excavating in my shed, and I put a patch on the bellows, and gathered a few tomatoes. Charley Ah Moo offered his house for £25. I also helped to cut chaff and Arthur helped me to finish clipping Dick.
14-6-: I worked a bit at the shed and went to the station with Tom for bone dust. I also fixed the bellows on the forge and cleaned the harness. Tom and I went to Newmans for sugar cane.
15-6-: I went to church in the sulky and after church we drove to Beals. We had a meeting at the church it was very nice.
16-6-: I got up very early and saw Ah Moo. He sold his place to Nelsons for £20. I gave him a blowing up for being such a humbug and getting me to waste my time running about. Tom and I went over to Newmans and listened to the Rexophone and had a cup of coffee, came back 11 oclock.
17-6-: I worked a little at the shed, and gathered 7 doz pines and put some bone dust on the smooth leaf pines. I also gathered rosellas and sent to the Mount. It came up very much like rain, but none has fallen so far.
18-6-: I put a wall up at the back of the shed, and cased up the pines and tomatoes and took them to the station. I also picked a few peas and papaws. After I got back from the station I went down to Toms and took a couple of photos of his show collection. The rain seems to have passed off.
19-6-: I worked at the shed and manured the tomatoes. It seems to be working up for rain. We are getting too much rain altogether this year, but we have to put up with it I suppose.
20-6-: I worked at the shed and helped Arthur shoe the pony. Afternoon I went to the show and an artist that was there made a sketch of me. They said it was like me and of course I dont know.
21-6-: I went to the show with Tom. We had a crook time of it coming home. Eddie Newman came with us and we all got wet.
22-6-: I went up to the church Mr Seorpe was in the pulpit. I had tea at Mrs Wards, it was a cold night.
23-6-: I sowed French bean seed. Aubrey James came down and had a look round. We had a splendid rain and the weather has now fined up nicely, things are growing well.
24-6-: I dug between pineapples and sharpened a pick and started making a bit of an excavation on the old cutting. It rained about half the day and my man went home just after dinner
25-6-: I worked cleaning the bank of the excavation that the road party made years ago. It was like rain but hung off. Vicary has been digging between the pines about where I was working, I also cut out a frame for something Charley wants me to fr ame for him.
26-6-: I commenced digging ground for tomatoes at the top end of the garden. In the afternoon I rode to the city and got some glass and pea seed. I went up to Gracemere after tea but did not stay to Endeavour that was held at Vicarys.
27-6-: I planted 1 lb of Yorkshire Hero pea seed. The weather has taken a rather cool turn. I also worked at the top end of the garden with Vicary.
28-6-: I did a little hoeing and then went to Wards to prune a rose tree for them. I also took a snap of the men in the church I was also at the school treat. Rain also came on about 11 P.M.
29-6-: It rained all night since it commenced and has continued the morning.
30-6-: I went down to Toms and got a few tomato plants and put them in. Vicary and I have also been digging at the top of the hill it is rather stony, but the soil is very good. After tea I printed several post cards and other photos.
1-7--: I put most of the weatherboards up off the ground, and poked around at other jobs. The ground is awfully damp and I could not burn the grass off and so could not plough either. Vicary put another day in on top of the hill.
2-7--: I dug between a row of pines and picked a few peas and gathered a papaw or 2 cut some grass on the track between Cecil and me and poked around at other odd jobs. The ground is very wet and I am getting a cold through having me feet wet so much.
3-7--: I was helping Arthur to build his shed. I went down about 10.30. Before that I helped Cecil with his stuff and then went to Gracemere for meat. I also dug between a row of tomatoes.
4-7--: I worked with Arthur until 3.30. It has come like rain again. I put out some tomato plants.
5-7--: I worked in the garden in the morning and after dinner I drove May Braddock and Laura along Quay Street and up to the gardens and took some photos. We went to Mrs Harveys and got Teddy and took him with us.
6-7--: Eddie Newman and I drove over to Beals. I took Annie and etc for a drive and left Eddie talking to Pete. Had tea at Daisys and I walked up to Gracemere and Mrs Wards.
7-7--: I put the remainder of the pumpkins in to heaps and started to go over the peas with the pronged hoe. After tea I printed some photos. I got a fairly good photo in the gardens on Saturday.
8-7--: I cased up 10 doz pines a few tomatoes for Arthur, I also hoed along the bottom of the passion fruit. After tea I went round and printed 6 post cards.
9-7--: I was cleaning the passion fruit, I also picked peas and sent pines etc up to the Mount.
10-7-: I worked for Arthur at the shed. After tea I went down to the dairy and got some money from Charley to put in the bank. The night is a little cool but there is no sign of frost.
11-7-: I hoed 8 rows of beans and worked a little along the passion fruit. After dinner I drove Laura to town and banked money for Arthur and Charley. I also bought several little things. I went up to a meeting in a tent near Wards.
12-7-: I got a fairly early start to town to witness the Orange celebrations. I took a few snaps of the procession but I was not in a good position and did not do too good. I took little Ernie with me.
13-7-: I spent the morning down at Toms. Lily Newman was there.
14-7-: I felt rather crook as a result of the meeting in Mr Sullivans tent. The draught came in at the door and made me rather crook. I dug a bit of couch grass near the pines on the bottom of the passion fruit. After tea I printed some photos.
15-7-: I have been digging couch grass from among the pines. I have felt very crook since Sunday night when I got the draught on me at the Mission Tent. Everyone seems to be more or less crook now.
16-7-: I worked amongst the pines. I also mounted and made ready to send away Schirmers photos. The sun gets rather hot during the day and winter seems to have about gone and we have had no frost.
17-7-: I hoed amongst the pines. It is very warm during the middle of the day in fact it is quite summery weather. I went up to the Christian Endeavour.
18-7-: I worked with Arthur at his shed. After tea Art, Tom and I drove to town to see about a bike for Tom.
19-7-: I hoed 12 rows of pines. After dinner I went and put ridge capping on the shed. I drove Tom and Daisy over to Newmans and got some wood for handles, came home in the moonlight.
20-7-: I drove Mother to church with Dick in the phaeton, he went very well. I am suffering from crook chest.
21-7-: I finished hoeing the pines near the gate and shook couch grass out with a little fork to try and kill it. After dinner I went down and finished putting the roof on the shed. Tom and I also dug a hole for bagg ing chaff. It has come up a bit cloudy.
22-7-: I was hoeing amongst the pines, also attending to Tom, while he was ploughing.
23-7-: I gathered a few dozen pines and cased them up for Arthur. I also hoed amongst the pines. I have an awful cold and my chest is very sore indeed.
24-7-: Tom and I shifted the cowpea stack into the shed. We also cut down a tree to get a block to make a roller out of. It was a bit stormy this afternoon, but has passed off again and now is quite cool outside.
25-7-: I fixed my li ttle plow up a bit so that the soil is turned over better than it was before. After dinner I went to town and got a bike for Tom. I also got a key from Ruscoe so that I can get in to his yard any time and leave my trap. It is like rain.
26-7-: I felt crook and did very little except put bone dust at the 8 rows of beans at the top end of the garden.
27-7-: I went to church. Mc Neil was in the pulpit. After church Eddie and I went to Wards for tea. Then we came home and walked up to the Mission.
28-7-: I wo rked the soil around the French beans at the top end of the garden and manured those near the hut. Then I went down to the dairy and got my horse and harrowed some of the ground Tom plowed. Then I started to plough it over with the little plow.
29-7-: I dug 2 bags of sweet potatoes and 2 dozen pines and sent them to Arthur. After dinner I finished ploughing the bit of ground and started to harrow it too. A hawker came out and picked 2 dozen pines himself and gave me 2/6 per dozen.
30-7-: I worked at the land I am getting ready for pines. It is awfully full of couch grass and is a terror to get out. I also hoed a row of pines.
31-7-: I hoed a bit and got the horse and hoed and started harrowing, afternoon I finished harrowing and started to plough. I took the wheel off the plow and it went much better. After tea I got my bike from Dunns.
1-8--: I went to Newmans and pulled pineapples suckers. After dinner I finished ploughing the land and harrowed it and put the horse in the cart and went and brought the suckers home.
2-8--: I planted the suckers I got yesterday.
3-8--: I went to church Bongers was preacher. After church I went home with Lily Newman had tea and stayed until 9 oclock.
4-8--: I dug a bag of sweet potatoes and gathered 5 doz pines and picked 80 suckers. Afternoon I made the number of suckers up to 180 and planted 140 of them.
5-8--: Planted some pines and picked about 10 doz. Also finished getting a couple of sweet spuds ready for Arthur.
6-8--: I went down to Toms for cases and over to Newmans for suckers and carted suckers from Cecils, I also cased pines etc for Arthur. After dinner I planted suckers. I was at an evening at Birds, spent a very enjoyable time there was a splendid gathering.
7-8--: I got home from Birds at 3.30 and got very damp with fog. I planted a couple of hundred suckers today. I have a nasty cold on my chest and have been awfully sleepy today.
8-8--: I planted a few suckers and worked at a couple of wheelbarrows I am making.
9-8--: I picked 143 suckers and planted, that took all the morning. After dinner I nearly finished Wards wheelbarrow. I went over to Newmans, had tea stayed until 9 oclock.
10-8-: Went to Toms and stayed dinner. Came home and got ready for church. Went to church and came home with Lily. Stayed tea at Toms and came home, helped Ted put horse in buggy.
11-8-: I went round and started work practically finished Wards barrow, but I felt that crook about 10.30 that I had to knock off and had to come home to bed, stayed in bed all the rest of the day, had no dinner, had a little tea.
12-8-: I felt much better, dug 5 bags of sweet potatoes from 8 oclock to 3 after that I picked pineapple suckers, knocked off at 5 oclock, went to Toms and got hank of twine to sew bags up.
13-8-: I picked pines and made a crat e and put 5 doz in it. I also gathered tomatoes and planted suckers. The weather is becoming a little dry, we could do with a drop of rain. Vicary is getting the garden cleaned up fairly well, it will take him 2 or 3 weeks, to get hoed over.
14-8-: I finished planting the piece of land with pines and went to the station with a load of produce for Longreach. Tom and I went up with another load and put all the stuff in a truck. It made us very late for the social at the church.
15-8-: I am not too good I have still got the nasty cold, but I am poking about doing a bit. We have had some heavy frost this week.
16-8-: I hoed couch grass between the bananas and pines. I also tried to burn the grass off but couldnt. Tom and his man came up and we fixed up his mattocks.
17-8-: Lily and I went over to Morgans with Dick in the sulky. Came home for tea she said she had enjoyed herself.
18-8-: I gathered a bucket full of tomatoes and hoed a row of pines. There is an awful wind risen which I cant stand.
19-8-: I hoed pines and gathered about 9 doz and some tomatoes and dug a few sweet potatoes. An order came from Longreach for 5 bags of sweet potatoes.
20-8-: Dug sweet potatoes and gathered pines also sent Arthur bag sweet spuds and 10 doz pines and tomatoes.
21-8-: I dug between a row of pines with the vine hoe and poked about the rest of the day, doing very little. Eddie Newman came after tea with a post card Album for Laura he also gave me 5/- for Subscription to School of Arts.
22-8-: I went down and helped Tom to get a start ploughing then came home and helped Cecil to rivet a tank. After dinner I went to my own place and made a door and cut out the boards for its mate. Also stacked timber up in the roof of the shed.
23-8-: I went round and finished making the doors and did a little excavating, and then Cecil and I drove to town. I bought some hinges and a second hand gun, afternoon Eddie, Cecil and I went to the Bower and got a turkey each.
24-8-: Tom and his man and I went for a walk down by the farm. Afternoon I went down to Toms and stayed for tea. After which I went partly home with Lily.
25-8-: I worked at my shed and went to the top of the hill and got a few tomatoes.
26-8-: I sent 2 doz pines to Longreach and took 1 doz to town for Mrs Skinner. I also did half a days ploughing and gathered 8 doz pines for Cecil and picked 3 parts of a tin of peas. Cecil, Eddie and I went to Congregational Church Anniversary.
27-8-: I ploughed and gathered pines also gathered another bucket of tomatoes. I finished ploughing the piece of land with the disc plow. I have been very crook for about the last couple of months, I suppose it is the influenza, every one seems to be suffering from the malady.
28-8-: I sent Arthur 8 doz pines and 25 lbs of tomatoes. I rode to town on my bike and sold tomatoes for Cecil and pines for myself. After coming home I picked pines and Cecil and I went to town with them. Emery wanted £1 worth of pines.
29-8-: I felt very crook but I picked up a few sweet spuds and gathered 2 doz pines for Emery. Laura and I drove in with Dick in the sulky and took Emery his pines. Overtook Mrs Earl and Amelia on the way home.
30-8-: I got the other door of my shed hung, and I picked up sweet potatoes. Afternoon Tom and I drove to Fairy Bower, I shot 2 Wallabies a p igeon and a scrub turkey. Tom got nothing, I gave him the birds. A slight shower of rain came on, and we came back in good time.
31-8-: Took Lily to Church and after service we went for a drive as far as Kabra, came home for tea and I took her home.
1-9--: I worked at the shed and gathered a few dozen pines, I also started to pick peas. The weather is becoming awfully dry. Sent St Ledger 2 doz pines.
2-9--: I excavated and picked peas and pines. Afternoon Cecil, Eddie and I drove to town with my horse in the little cart. Took Emery some stuff and went to Rifle Range and marked for them while they shot.
3-9--: I gathered pines and cased pines and tomatoes for Arthur. I also worked at excavating and other things.
4-9--: Cecil and I went to town with produce. I did much better than I had expected as the pines were a very poor sample and some had holes in them, made by grasshoppers. I made an average of 2/8 per doz.
5-9--: I dug couch grass from amongst the pines and hoed a row where Vicary is working. It came up like rain but we did not got any to speak of. It was a very warm day.
6-9--: Dug the couch out from among a row of pines and did a little to the little cart that I started to make some time ago. Went to Wards and brought Laura home from the Railway Picnic
7-9--: Lily and I went to the farm for the day.
8-9--: I picked peas and tomatoes and also some pines. After dinner Cecil and I went to town with our various products and sold them. I brought home a vice and some timber and bolts to make a harrow and a bar of steel for cultivator teeth.
9-9--: I set up the vice and sent a case of pines to Longreach for St Ledger. After tea I took a ride over to Newmans on the bike. Eddie was making toy horses. Lily took me to see the watermelons.
10-9-: I started making a harrow and picked some pines. Vicary started digging round stumps. The weather is as dry as this month usually is. The roads are simply awful with dust.
11-9-: I got the horse and dray and carted a couple of loads of wood to burn stumps with and took stuff up to the station for Arthur. I took Lily up to Christian Endeavour Association. Very nice meeting was held, carried on by the Baptist Society.
12-9-: I worked with Vicary at burning out the stumps. It was a very hot day and the stumps burnt fairly well. I picked peas, tomatoes and beans. After tea I took a bunch of Roses over to Newmans.
13-9-: During the morning I was at the stumps burning. Went and sprayed prickly pear for Eddie and stayed at Newmans for tea, Came home about 10 oclock.
14-9-: Eddie and I drove over and saw Mrs Beal got back to dinner. After dinner I took Lily around to my place. Went to the top of the hill. Went to meeting at night.
15-9-: I worked amongst the stumps most of the day, but got Cecil to help me to plough between the pines in the early evening. It did not do so well as I had expected, but no doubt it will be a little benefit to the pines.
16-9-: I went round the pines and earthed them up a little better than the plow had done it and worked amongst the stumps. Also helped Cecil to run some wires across the creek. Went and saw Lily after tea.
17-9-: Worked at the stumps and knocked about at other bits of jobs.
18-9-: I cased 4 doz pines and 1 case of tomatoes and sent up for Arthur. I also made a board for the back of the little cart besides keeping the stump work going and picking the peas over.
19-9-: I picked tomatoes and went to town with Cecil and sold them. After dinner I worked in the black smiths shop. I made a pair of hinges but they did not turn out too good for the job.
20-9-: I drove Cecil and Eddie to the Archer Park Station to enable them to catch the Brisbane train. Went to Newmans and stayed for tea. Took my horse down to the paddock.
21-9-: I went to Newmans for the day, after dinner Lily and I rode by bike to Fairy Bower and spent a little time in the shade on the bank of the creek.
22-9-: I put the tailboard on the little cart, and gathered a nice few tomatoes. It was a rather hot day but breezy. I hoed a bit along the smooth leaf pines, hoeing is very dry work just now, it is marvellous how the weeds live, as it is nearly 3 months since we have had rain.
23-9-: I had a hard job hawking tomatoes round the shops. I had over 200 lbs but most of them were Cecils and I was practically all over the town before I got rid of them. It was dreadfully hot and of course I got a nice headache.
24-9-: I finished making the harrows and gave the cart another coat of paint. Also gathered tomatoes and sent a case to the Mount. About half the afternoon I was hoeing the g ully near the hut. Vicary is still working at the stumps and is getting slower every day, at least so it appears to me. Mother got a letter card from Cecil.
25-9-: I had a fire in the side of the hill near Ernie. I finished hoeing the gully with the fruit trees in it, gathered tomatoes and pines, finished watering the rose trees and mulched them. Took Lily home after tea, got back 9.30.
26-9-: I went to the top of the hill and burned a bit of pear and then did a little excavating. After dinner I took tomatoes and pines to town. I went over to Newmans on my way home and got the tins and spray pump.
27-9-: I made some cultivator teeth and that is about all I did. I gave Vicary a weeks notice as I think he has had a fair innings. Went to see Lily and came back before dark as I had forgotten lamp.
28-9-: It rained slightly last night and looked bad this morning, so I didn't go out. Afternoon Lily and I and party went to the Bower for an hour or 2.
29-9-: Went down to Toms and got a couple of cases and packed Cecils tomatoes ready to send up to the Mount. I gathered a few tomatoes and burned the rest of the grass on the hill. I also fixed Lilys bike lamp , it wants a new burner and will be all right.
30-9-: I dug soil out so as to make room to extend my shed and shifted the bench out of the other shed, which I intend pulling down. The weather is awfully windy and gives one toothache etc.
1-10-: I pulled down the square shed and commenced extending the other one out to the smiths shop. I had the toothache pretty bad nearly all day.
2-10-: I worked at the shed extension. The weather was very windy and also cloudy one would think it might rain. Laura took the Phaeton to town to get the hood mended. After tea I went down to Toms and took the lass home.
3-10-: I put the iron on the roof of the shed extensions and went on working at the shed all day. After tea I went with Tom and Harry down to the lagoon to try and get a duck but they kept their distance too well.
4-10-: I worked at the shed during the morning and afternoon. Lily came over and I took a few photos, some of them are very fair.
5-10-: I spent the day at Newmans. Got home at 9.10 in the evening.
6-10-: I picked a case of tomatoes and cased also some of Cecils and sent to the Mount. Mother and Cecil came home during the afternoon, Mother from the Mount and Cecil from Brisbane.
7-10-: I worked a little at the shed and burned some heaps that Vicary had stacked up, they burn very well. I also burned some of the grass along the front fence.
8-10-: I did a little weed spraying and hoed the rose trees also set fire to a couple of stumps and grubbed out some lantana.
9-10-: I worked at the shed making a level place to stand the treasles and made a shutter. I also grubbed some lantana. The weather is still as dry as is seasonable at this time of the year. Everything is about at a stand still.
10-10: I dug couch grass from amongst the new patch of pines. After dinner I got ready and went to the Mount by the 5.15 train.
11-10: I walked over a good part of the Mount. Had a look through the Ambulance and the new Presbyterian Church also the new Protestant Hall. Came home by the evening train.
12-10: Lily came out for the afternoon and I went down and stayed with her all the afternoon. Took her home and got back about 9.30.
13-10: I started fixing Cecils well. We put in a good day and got a fair start but things didnt go together easily. However I may put think in a little better tomorrow.
14-10: I worked at the well by myself. I managed to fix the first section and cut out a square set before dinner. After dinner I helped Ted to cart filling for Charley.
15-10: I worked for Cecil all day we got the well timbered so we finished the job before 5 o clock. There is no mistake it has been a very hot day.
16-10: I hoed amongst th e bananas. It was a beastly hot day. I also picked tomatoes and burned a bit of prickly pear. I shifted the stack of well timber and counted it over so as to ascertain what I have to charge Cecil for what we have used to do his well. If it doesn t rain things will be getting serious.
17-10: I did a good bit of hoeing. After dinner I rode the bike to the city and bought a ring, and run around several places. I was a good while at Thomas the fruiter he wanted to sell me his cart for £14 but I think it rather much.
18-10: I hoed 5 rows of pines and helped Arthur with his well after which I rode the bike to town and made a deal with Thomas for his cart for £10/10/-. Eddie and I went to the School of Arts and changed our books. I shouted drinks at Boltons opposite the church.
19-10: I went to church and stayed for tea at Morrells. Attended a nice little meeting in the evening it was nicely attended.
20-10: I did a bit of hoeing and finished the shutter at the end of my workshop, gathered tomatoes and passion fruit that was a mornings work.
21-10: I hoed amongst the pines and poked around doing other little jobs such as gathering a little produce, such as there is just now, which is not very much.
22-10: I hoed the 4 rows of pines near the gate and manured them and dug it in, also sent Arthur a few pines and tomatoes.
23-10: I put Victor in the dray and carted a bit of gravel and put at the approach to my place. After that I rode the bike to town and drew £10 out of the bank ready for Thomas tomorrow.
24-10: I went down to Charley and got a cheque for Thomas. When Thomas came we put the cart in the shed and settled. It was very hot and one would think we were in for rain. I also hoed a few pines.
25-10: I hoed amongst the pines and afternoon I took Eddie Newmans photo. I didnt go out as I felt none too good so retired to bed early.
26-10: I drove in and brought Lily out and I also managed to lose a cap off one of the wheels. I put the ring on Lilys finger. (A Sunday.)
27-10: Picked a few tomatoes and passion fruit, also hoed 4 rows of pines.
28-10: I hoed amongst the pines and hoed a very weedy bit of land above the pines.
29-10: I continued the hoeing and gathered up passion fruit and other stuff for Eddie Newman.
30-10: I was again using the hoe, the pines have nearly all been gone over since Vicary went. Eddie brought a nickel cap that was supposed to belong to my sulky, it cost 1/ - for advertising and 2 / 6 for reward and is no earthly use.
31-10: I worked at my place during the morning and at the well for Arthur all afternoon.
1-11-: Worked at the well with Arthur all morning, we worked very hard, but did nothing of any account after dinner I drove Laura and Young Lily to the Bower where a picnic was in progress.
2-11-: I went to church and heard Rev Laverack, he is not too bad taking him all through.
3-11-: I finished hoeing my pines over. I have been over the entire garden since Vicary went. The weather is awfully warm as is usual at this time of year.
4-11-: Raked up a few Papaws and tomatoes.
5-11-: I put down 2 holes for gateposts so as to make it possible to cart manure round that way instead of going through the garden.
6-11-: I put the posts in and fixed struts to them. The weather is awfully close but the storms that sail round manage to miss us somehow.
7-11-: I worked with Tom at potato digging all day, we finished all but 6 rows.
8-11-: I went up to the bazaar in the afternoon. All the morning I suffered with toothache and could do no work.
9-11-: I went in just after dinner and brought Lily out to Daisys. 11.30 when I got back at night.
10-11: I worked a bit at fixing the fence and also with Ted at the soil carting. I have been suffering with toothache for about a fortnight now.
11-11: I poked around doing little jobs of different kinds. Ted broke a crook off my gate and I fixed it again in a kind of way.
12-11: I didnt get a wink of sleep last night on account of my jaw. I gathered up a bit of stuff to meet Eddie with in the morning.
13-11: I got up at 5 oclock and went down to Toms and got the hor se and cart and met Eddie at Burns corner with produce. After that I rode the bike to the city and got Miss Huet to draw teeth for me. After I got back I dug stuff for Jack to cart.
14-11: I worked at the cutting during the morning. I dug 3 loads I feel very weak and empty, as I cannot eat very well.
15-11: I did a bit of excavating, but as a big storm came it put a stop to Jackys carting and I did no more work. I went to the School of Arts and was present at a meeting of the P. Association and also Committee meeting.
16-11: I rode the bike in and brought Lily out and took her home for the day. We got out by 10.10 and left for town at 8 p. m.
17-11: I went over the young lot of pines digging out couch grass. Besides that I got enough stuff ready for Jack to cart. After dinner I got old Rowdy and harrowed some land at my place.
18-11: I went down and helped Tom to cart his raking that took all morning. After dinner I got my bike and went and saw Russell about the timber for my house. It was an awfully hot day and I did very little in the garden.
19-11: I gathered up a little stuff for Eddie tomorrow.
20-11: I got up before 5 and took 2 trips to the corner with stuff for Eddie. After breakfast I got Dick and put him in the sulky and drove Charley to town, we went to Stead and Co and ordered timber for my house , went over to Beals and had dinner. Pete was at a sale so we didnt see him as we had intended.
21-11: Got up early and went to a chinamans garden and bought a verandah chair from him for 2 /- it needs to be recanvassed and then will be in good order.
22-11: I picked up stones and carted them in the wheelbarrow off the land I want to get broken up in the wet season.
23-11: I stayed home and read all day. It was so awfully hot that I could not get a move on to go anywhere.
24-11: I poked around doing a little here and there. It is practically impossible to work this weather.
25-11: I worked at the excavation that has to be done for the house to stand on. I rode the bike up to the station and sent to Hordens for 3 books on different works.
26-11: Cecil and I worked at the quarrying and it took the water out of our hides. Mother and Laura have gone to the city.
27-11: I got up a little after 5 and took 2 trips to the corner with stuff for Eddie. The rest of the day Cecil and I put in excavating for me to erect a shanty for the Mrs . It was a bit cooler today but we were neither of us too good for work.
28-11: Cecil and I started working again at the cutting, but couldnt get along with it, so I rode on the bike to town and bought some drill steel and we made a couple of drills and have blown a bit of stuff up with gelignite.
29-11: We continued with the excavating. Afternoon I stayed at home but Cecil went fishing and got some very fair size perch they went well for worms.
30-11: I drove into Snellings and got Lily, brought her out to Toms and stayed for tea
1-12-: Cecil and myself worked at the excavating. It was an awful day as regards heat, but we did a fair bit. After dinner Tom, Cecil and I went to town on account of Charley.
2-12-: We excavated all day. It was a little lower in temperature but never the less it was quite warm enough.
3-12-: We put another day in at the same old job, it is a bit of terror all right. I am giving it a rest for a while after this.
4-12-: I got up at 5 and met Eddie with Papaws etc. After breakfast I went round and mended my gate, made a crook and put it in the gate, now works all right again. Afternoon I worked with Cecil fixing a pump down his well. The mercury rose to 112* in the shade.
5-12-: We finished cleaning Cecils well out and a terrible hot job it was. The water should be nice and clear after this.
6-12-: Cecil and I pulled the roof off the old killing pen. The weather is awful. One of Moidsans horses died with the heat.
7-12-: Went to the city and drove the girl out for the day, we had dinner at her mothers and tea at my mothers, all passed off well.
8-12-: I worked at excavating for Cecil, the weather is much cooler than it was last week but we get no rain.
9-12-: Worked at Cecils shed. I pulled the iron off about half of the old shed.
10-12: We worked a little at the building, and then I picked a bit of stuff out of the garden. Cecil and I went to town for several things we wanted.
11-12: Cecil and I worked at his shed. Mother and Laura drove to town and got their buggy done up.
12-12: Worked at the shed. The weather has been a little cooler during the last few days but the continued dry spell is making things rather trying.
13-12: I worked with Cecil during the morning. Afternoon I framed photos until I got tired. Went to School of Arts after tea and stayed till after 11. We had some splendid Hop Ale there and it went off quite well.
14-12: I went and drove Lily out and took her home, it was a surprise visit, but her mother was very glad to see her.
15-12: I worked at Cecils shed until 4 oclock, when I went round to my place and finished some photos. The weather was rather warm and I have got a bit of a cold somehow. This awful dry time has made me quite out of sorts.
16-12: I spent the day with Charley helping him to put the ceiling in one of his rooms. It was an awful hot day, but we got on pretty well considering all things. At time of writing it is stormy.
17-12: We had nice rain during last night, which has made things much fresher. I went down to the dairy and helped Charley to put a ceiling in the boys room I came home about 4 o'clock. It looks as though it could rain again tonight.
18-12: I sowed pumpkin seeds and also some cowpea and put a shutter up in the shed. It rained a little throughout the day but didnt amount to much although what rain we have already had will do a great deal of good.
19-12: I poked around doing a few small jobs at my place and then went down to Mrs Thorsens and finished my little jobs and got paid 3/- for what I had done. Helped Cecil rest of day, went and saw Eddie after tea and walked home account of wet.
20-12: On account of rain, we were blocked from going on with the shed so I put out a few passion fruit plants and after dinner C ecil and I tried to catch fish with the chows net, but had no luck.
21-12: It has rained pretty well all day. I went down to Toms for a while and had a cup of tea. When I came home Mother and Laura were barneying.
22-12: It has been raining all day pretty well. A chap was unable to work at all. All a fellow can do this weather is eat, eat, eat. Cecil is going real dotty, I think is on account of the wet weather. All he can do is fool, fool, and fool.
23-12: Was practically a wet day we did very little of anything. A chap has nothing to read and lying around in bed is very stale work.
24-12: It was too wet during the morning to work, but after dinner Cecil and I worked at his shed. We got on fairly well with it too. Just before tea we had to go down to the dairy for the Chinamans net. It is now just after tea and seems as though it is going to rain. It seems as if I am going to have a very quiet Christmas.
25-12: I went and helped bury a dead cow and knocked about the rest of the day. Afternoon I walked over to Newmans and caught a few fish and also had tea there. I then made tracks home carrying my bicycle on my shoulders.
26-12: I rode the bike to Snellings and fixed Lilys bike for her and brought her out for the day. We had dinner at Mothers and then went to Daisys. Came up and had supper I then took her home and came home myself.
27-12: I sowed a row of French beans and did a few other little jobs. The rain has taken up but I expect it will come on again. It has been splendid rain.
28-12: I took Lily over to Beals for the afternoon, we stayed for tea and came away between 8 and 9 oclock. I had to ride home without a light as my lamp went bung
29-12: I set a few pumpkins and silver wattle seeds. Afternoon I hoed I feel very off somehow, awful pains in my inside, must be the fruit. Today I ate Watermelon, mango and grapes also nuts. The place is nothing but weeds all over.
30-12: I did some hoeing and pronged around the pumpkins, I also pulled a lot of sweet potatoes. I went to town on the bike before dinner and got back just in time to have it with the others. Bought 6 lbs of pea seed.
31-12: I ploughed and harrowed a bit of land and put in 12 rows of peas and 2 rows of peanuts.
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