March 1899

Buttons Camp

Sunday 5^th March 1899

Raining and cold

Chet and I went fishing again: no luck, went to same place.  Ice getting very bad.  Soft and big cracks.  Ate our lunch in Hiram's fish shanty.  Edsen Goodspeed made an offer to let me run his place for a year.

Haven’t written much for 10 days, but in the meantime we have cleaned out and filled 2 ice houses one on W. Point and one on Law’s Island.  Chet and I went over to Law’s mill and got a load of sawdust and I don’t know what all. 

Went to Winooski yesterday to put name on voting list.  I wasn’t in it as I was not listed a year ago.  Bert Hines was down here last evening we played poker.  Chet held the best hand of all.

Monday 6^th

Dreamed last night of Block Island

Tuesday 7^th

Went to Winooski to election or town-meeting.  Came home in one of the most terrible blizzards I was ever out in.

Wednesday 8^th

Cleaned out hog pen to be ready for pigs.  Cap and I got horse (Caesar) shod.  I set shoes; we then went to Hines and got forge and old boat.  Chet and Cash have gone to Post Office, Edsen here this eve.  Think I will have the job of painting and lathing his house.

Thursday 9^th March Button’s camp.

Cap + Chet went over to point to finish drawing sawdust but didn’t finish

Friday 10^th

Chopped wood +burnt up coats +spectacles in a.m.  Cut Possums foot off in wire fence + had the devil to pay all round in P.M.

Sat.

Chet went to Milton after Myrtle,  fitted crosspiece into Chet’s skiff,

 Sunday, 12

Chet + Myrtle came home.

I went up to Hines.

Monday, 13

Carried hen stuff into granary. Cleaned up the yard.   Finished cutting up the last old stump pulled out last year. 

Chet + I picked over apples + onions. Put sawdust into hencoop. Cap went to interval after hay. Bert Hines came home with it + took power back to saw wood.

Chet + I did up chores + Cap not here yet to-night. 8.20.

Goodspeed brought hay to pay for what his horse eat.  

Tuesday 21. March, 1899 Button’s Camp.

Pleasant and comfortable but not thawing much. About 3 inches of snow on the ground. Commenced drawing wood for Uncle Willard yesterday, and on our way down to the lot saw what we at first supposed to be a flock of ducks out in Porters mowing, but when we came back, they flew up and then we saw they were 7 wild geese.

We might have captured one or two if we had a gun, but we didn’t.

 Today I went up and took dinner with Uncle Willard and Elmo, and Uncle Willard put a new handle in my little new axe.

Hines + Bert  to-day sold piles for the new R.R. to be not less than nine inches under the bark at the butt, nor less than 6 in at tip and to be 20 or more feet long, and to receive 2 ½ c per running foot on the top, when cut.  

They are to commence cutting them to-morrow but I think now it looks like snow tomorrow.  

Cap drew 3 loads of wood yesterday and 4 to-day.  

Friday 24

Pleasant all day.

Chet + Cap drew a load of hay this A.M for Porter  + I sawed wood + I did chores,

This P.M. I went with Eden and helped him get a couple of logs out of the snow, and afterward called at Uncle Willard’s  and Hines’. Expect Coon is coming down to live on Mr. Bills’ place.

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