June 22, 1956, Friday
Bright, real hot, got to 111 above in p.m. but Men worked at alfalfa on Standing Cloud. I got eats and played solitaire, read some and Will had to rest but went to haying.
June 23, 1956, Saturday
Bright warm day but getting cooler. Athel & Doris put 2 large pieces of pork in our Deep Freeze and brought a jar of milk then went home to get dinner for Thomas and David helping Old Tom move their cattle to South Pasture by Carmen Harp’s and Tom Sr. took Bobbie, Jimmie, Patsy and Danny in his car to help move cattle from north and west of Thomas’s to pasture across river. Mr. Harp, Leslie and Will finished alfalfa on Standing Cloud. Mr. Harp went home to Ainsworth, Nebr. and he took milk, cream, ice-cream and meat from Thomas’s. Johnson went to Valentine via Brinda’s to a Show this eve and Will and I to Abbotts. Billie home as W. L. and Inez in Winner. We went around Highway to west and looked at cows.
June 24, 1956, Sunday
Bright day and strong south wind and a cloud came up in eve. Very dark and dusty but rain not much. There was 12 noon, we did not go as heifer had to have dead calf pulled but she is alive. Leslie helped Will. They went to Brinda’s for dinner. Louise & Mary to church at St. Therese and here in p.m. We went up My Creek to fish (none). Will & I parted ways, Louise & I parted then to Schuppen Corner. Mary & Louise went home, we to Haukaas School, met Harley, Billy and Harry. They went to Mission vs. Parmalee ball game, Mission won. They will get 5 gals. oil for Fly Rubs in pasture and a cream separator at their new home (Herman Larson Place) and we can use it. We went to Barthelson’s, no one home, then chored, to cows, O.K., to Stanley’s. Stanley, Gary, Curley and Pearl were to go to Winner vs. Valentine game but did not go on account of storm. Men will come tomorrow to help vaccinate calves for Blackleg, also Thomas, David and Athel to help. Mr. Harp there and here before 10 p.m. He came back from Ainsworth at 3 p.m.
June 25, 1956, Monday
Bright Day and not much rain last eve. Billie Abbott, Lyle Bartleson, Stanley, Gary, Curley, Thomas and David, Will and Mr. Harp, also Leslie on horseback vaccinated 196 calves, branded and ear marked 25. Jerry and Billie came up and Athel. We roasted beef, cooked hamburger, gravy, potatoes, oyster dressing, salad of orange, lettuce and cherries, another of peas, boiled eggs, mayonnaise and cheese, coffee and ice-tea, Koolaid. We baked apple, raisin and black cherry with boysenberry pie. Doris stayed home with Danny, Jimmie, Bobbie & Patsy and we sent leftovers from dinner to them by David & Athel. Everything I do isn’t the right way so it makes it hard to get a meal. Too many bosses. I have my way of cooking and it is hard to have to change. We will have to fix our place so others can give meals to Big Crowd to work cattle and I can stay at home. Will won’t go to other meals as he wants to eat at home. Athel has rheumatic arthritis of crippling kind in wrists and hay fever so should not do too much work. All came in to eat pie and ice-tea but Billie Abbott and Lyle Bartleson. Will gave Thomas’s children a poor calf to raise. One has broken leg but I hear no more of it. Women washed dishes, had to clean out sink drain as it was clogging. I laid down in p.m. and slept. Billie Johnson cried and cried this day. Men took 13 bulls to Big Pasture.
June 26, 1956, Tuesday
Boyd Larmer’s Birthday. Bright hot day. Leslie started to mow on Strids and he had welded trail mower hitch twice but finally got it to work and finished 1/3 of alfalfa on Strids and Mr. Harp raked it. Will looked at cows in Big Pasture. Mr. Harp raked it. Will looked at cows in Big Pasture and all O.K., also cows here, had 1 calf, this is the heifer bunch. Men have to get heifer up that lost a calf Sunday and water her 2 times a day. Jerry and kids did not come up. I got eats and was warming leftovers all this day after breakfast. Will and I looked at cows and no bulls to count as are out with cows.