1926 April 21st Wednesday
Real smoky so that could scarcely see a mile away although sun shone bright. Will & William sowed barley after Will got the seeder and home late dinner. William got in horses and Will plowed for straw-berries. Louise to school and I was all in with a cold in my head and George & William still have colds and Louise starting to have a cold.
1936 April 21st Tuesday
Bright, nice day but quite cold in a.m. and chilly all rest of day, some clouds in eve. I got meals and baked bread yesterday so gave old bread to chickens this morning, also canned the pickled head-meat, soaked some of the salt so as to dry it and rubbed salt on the meat in cellar and slept in p.m. Will chored, looked at cattle and another calf and E.R.A. cow was on her back in old road on State Land so he got her up, helped Stanley Whiting get 1st load of corn in barn, for Stanley brought 100 bu. from A. E. Brown for us and he had dinner here, then unloaded last load and went home. Thomas feels none too well but he and LeMoyne bunched hay on Ed Schmidt Allotment and Will got them for dinner and took them back and they brought a load of any for cattle in eve. Will fixed stacker and worked at Turkey-Shed in p.m. and chored in eve. He took Thomas and Lemoyne to the store after supper so they could go with crowd to chivaree of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Van Epps at Lattimores. Frank was here in p.m. for a plow to put in garden.
1946 April 21st Sunday
Easter. Bright, nice until evening it rained a real rain, after we went to bed was more than the first shower. We had a chicken this day for meat is gone now. Will got Thomas, Athel, Doris and David in eve, so Thomas could help Will feed a calf that won’t suck. I went back with them before the rain as they hadn’t milked their cows yet. We looked through cows on way home. Will had to deliver this calf that won’t suck and spent this Easter Sunday fussing with cows and I would get my duds out to put on for we were going to Big Pasture to look at wells and horses and on to Hank Haukaas’s to see about alfalfa seed.
1956 April 21st Saturday
Bright day and Will & I to Thomas’s to see if they go to Mission R.E.A. Meeting this p.m. to vote on Office to be at Valentine, Mission or White River. Lillian brought Doug, and she and Victoria Prue went to Mission. Doug finished leveling on Scisson and brought Tractor home. Will & I to Thomas’s but no one home. Leslie Johnson, wife, son, daughter came to put things in house west over hill, they took our Pick Up to bring more things tomorrow. Vere and Doug moved things to North House and put table in house but Johnsons want it back tomorrow.