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Fri Aug 31 Fine again but pretty warm. The boys hauled 4 load [loads] of oats from the two little pieces joining [adjoining] the 10 acre piece and 5 loads of hay from the piece North of the house put 1 load in the barn and the rest in the stack. I made a gate to haul the oats through and then made a lean to [lean-to] on the south end of the grain stack yard and fixed the bridge by the gate.
Sat Sept 1st Fine and quite warm. The boys finished hauling and stacking the hay from North of the house and then hauled and stacked the oats north of the barn. They hauled 2 loads of hay to day [today] and 4 loads of oats and got done at noon. I fixed the bridge across the ditch towards the windy hill place and then started in to irrigate the the alfalfa north of the house and allso [also] on the strawberries and put in the day at it. Frank and the children were here to day [today] and to night [tonight]. Charley and Hattie and the girls and Arthur Bush are here now.
Sun Sept 2nd A nice day to day [today] and Mother and Mrs Randall went up to Laporte and got Mrs Randells little girl and went to John Dragers. Found them tolerable well. Bert and his girl were here and Mr Kissack and wife and Lew and Mary and Aggie. I irrigated on the piece of alfalfa above the house to day [today] and got pretty near done.
