Thursday, Oct. 22, 1936

Pap went up in the woods with the tree man, he brought some honey & we strained it got 3 glasses. Ed. Schineder looked at the horses. We went out to Henry’s he butchered; we brought some along; had beef soup dinner & liver. Cold today, & nite. Tipton has euchre tonite. We paid electric light bill $1.00 for 8 kilowatts hrs. Leo came & we all went out to Henry’s; played cards, pinochle, 6 games. won every one, had fresh sausage & cake. We took all the flowers out, pretty cold tonite.

Monday, Jan. 21, 1935

It was so cold, 8 above zero. Boy! flowers froze in the room, just terrible; to much of a change; we put the flowers all in the basement. Steve Rennker brought over mail today. Not so many people out, to cold; the wind has gone down.