March 18, 1876 - March 24, 1876

1876 March 18. I expect to Plant my Patch Irish
Potatoes this evening very cold & windy
this morning & looks Some little like Snow
Did Plant my Irish Potatoe Patch this evening
very windy & very cold & cloudy - like for snow
19th clear this morning & no wind theremometer
down to 17, ground hard frozen Sunday - &
very cold, I have the rheumatizm very bad
in my left hip & thigh can hardly get about

20th Snowing hard this morning and
still very cold wind from north --
very disgreeable morning doing but little,
I am still complain'g but some better
Snow about 4 Inches Deep now raining
Hailing & Snowing in evening -- weather
quite cold, - Peter Adams come this morning

21st March cleared off this morning & quite
cold this morning Just at freezing pint
Peter came home yesterday morning did
not do any thing Snowing Hailing &
raining this 20 Mar. yesterday -- Snow
dont melt much yet Peter got out 1 or
2 chairs to bottom for us,

22nd clear cold still morning thermometer 2[lost in margin]
this morning every thing living smart
Snow on the ground Peter at work on
chairs etc Edmond shell corn yesterday
Hauling wood to day Snow dont melt
much the wind is still [al] to day

23rd Peter gone to Petty Johns Mill this morning
to get Some meal for himself at Mill
Carried 2½ Bus. corn for our meal & 4
Bus. for Edmond Dews meal, Edmond &
his gang at work in his new ground
to day chinking log Heaps etc. cloudy
& likely for more falling weather

24th Edmond Burning his Log Heaps &
Brush Weather cloudy & moderate Peter cutting
this morning got our meal yesterday