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My journal entry for Saturday, July 20, 1968

Just another day! I clambered out for breakfast, as I have every day all year long.

We worked around the shop until the hay dried off. Lloyd sharpened sickles, Doug sorted bolts, Dad fixed the leaky automatic waterer, and I filled grease guns and did other odd jobs.

Dad and I did the necessary preliminaries to the new mow tractor. Then I waited while he laid out a land between the ditches. I mowed all morning, and the rest of the crew, with Sandra raking, got up a stack or two before dinner.

During the noon hour, I conked clear out. Sybil went to the hayfield in the afternoon to rake.

I finished mowing the land. Dad said to quit when I got it done, even though it was just shortly after 5:00.

Mom brought out some refreshing iced tea. Dad had to go home once during the afternoon to pull a calf.

When I got the mowing done, I went over east and raked some. The rake tractor stalled out with a dead battery, so I just loafed while the rest finished out a “doodle” stack [not enough hay to make a full stack].

We got stacked up as far as we could. Mom, Dad, and the girls went to Gordon. Thanks to being four days behind in this diary, I stayed home.

Doug and Lloyd stayed for supper, and then took off for the week-end.
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