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amputated and when we reached the ferry we heard he was dead. It was very warm yesterday and today the first really warm days.
Friday May 23. 1884. Went to Kingston this morning taking Charlie and Girard with me. I had had to discipline them for pulling up my verbenas yesterday. Went to see Mrs. Rosa about Julias change of plan for her wedding. She is a colored woman who was to officiate. After I returned next went over to the cemetery and finished planting the flowers in all the graves except Gussies on which I planted some nasturtium seeds and put some good earth in and shall transplant morning glorys. Worked in the flower garden and helped Sara and Cousin put the matting in the sitting room. A violent thunderstorm came up after tea overflowing the gutters and leaking through the roof in many places. I am afraid our new paper in the hall is damaged. The roof of the wing is very bad. Louise Brodhead was here. The lightning was incessant and must have struck very near here. Now at 9 o'clock the thunder is still muttering and we may have another shower. Wrote to Weir. My cigars from Phil came today.
Saturday 24. First thing after breakfast I put the ladder up to the gutters and cleaned them out and put in a lot of new shingles over the places where it leaked last night. The accounts of the storm in the Freeman show it to have been very violent in this vicinity. The German Catholic Church was struck under the hill and also one of the Churches in Kingston. After mending the roof I went over to the cemetery and put a number of morning-glory plants on Gussies grave. Sara and I put down the carpet in the upper hall and also in the lower hall and carried the furniture into the sitting room. We also took up the carpet in the parlor. We have had a sort of a tramp here for a day or two who proved himself very handy about beating and putting down carpets.  He went away this evening.  I have done a thousand things today.  It has been very hot.  Just as I got dressed Dr. Magee called and soon after he went Mr & Mrs. Hartswick from High Falls. Cousin Rachel went to N.Y. by the Powell this morning. The Powell commenced her season today. A letter from Kurtz wanting my picture "Shadows of Autumn for the Louisville exhibition. A note from Mrs. Elmendorf to whom I wrote when her daughter died. This evening there is a breeze and it is cool + pleasant with distant thunder and lightning.
Sunday 25. A cool pleasant morning. I wrote to Booth, to Gertrude and two or three business letters. We had Charlie and Girard over to dinner and after dinner we took a ride round Hussey Hill by Eddyville and St. Remy and over to the river road crossing at Sleights ferry. It was a lovely ride Sara and my father went with the two little boys. I thought of my mother and dear Gertrude who so often took that ride with us. 
Monday 26. Another charming day. The hill seems very lovely and bowery. The leaves being fully out. We had a letter from Lucy today. She had not yet received my letter giving our account of Gussies death. I spent the forenoon coloring the floor of Toms room and puttying up the cracks. This afternoon I have done a little of every thing. Cousin Rachel came back on the Powell this evening. 
Tuesday 27. Busy about the house and the garden. My finger is blistered from my operations yesterday. It rained hard this evening. It rained towards evening very violently. 
Wednesday 28. Rained all night and at intervals through the day. I awoke with a bad feeling in my head. We put the new black and yellow lambrequin on the mantel piece in the sitting room, which Rachel and Sara made last night. Went over to the cemetery & set out some Tomato plants but have been rather quiet. Sara had a letter from Gertrude and one from Mrs. Swan who is coming here Thursday. 

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-26 12:04:10 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-26 16:04:58 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-28 09:58:38 lambrequin: a short decorative drapery for a shelf edge or for the top of a window casing : valance.