Cloudy and sticky all day. Didn’t like to work a bit to day, it was to close, but still made good process on schoolbooks. Finished some of them and a few more little jobs. Wrote to Dr Webber, home & M. Whitney. The heaviest shower I ever witnessed came up at about 1/2 past 5 o’clock P.M. I got caught in it near the post office but hustled home to give Martha Companie, for she is so awfully afraid. Put 8.00 in the savings bank. Will make the 50 full as soon as possible and buy more land, properly a wood lot with P. Hiersche tocgether. Cooled off nicely now. Martha is feeling fine a good deal better than we could expect. Most all off the babies dresses and other things are finished, so can “die geschichte jetzt losgehen. Was wird es sein?” (The story starts now. What will it be?)
The writings of two historical figures who never knew the internet