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to stop the work but enough to render the roof slippery. He has finished this evening and to my great satisfaction has put all four chimnies in order so that I shall not have to fear of their crumbling and falling this winter. It is the greatest comfort to me that I have accomplished these very necessary repairs and at a less cost than I supposed possible. I sent [[?]] $27 by check for the carpenters work today, 9 days work at $3 per day. I find that 3 quarter brushes of shingles lay a square of 100 sq. feet, that is the best quality of planed shingles. The shingles and weather boards have cost for the wing of the house $67.81, the labor $27. The work of the masons on the chimnies will be somewhere near $12 or $15. This will be a basis for calculation if I want to shingle the main house at a future time. It has been uncomfortably warm in the house with the hall stove and we had the outside door open all evening. A snow storm is reported at Laramie on the Union Pacific R. R and I presume it will soon be colder here. I will soon go to N.Y. to begin my work for the winter and for the first time I today thought of it with 
something like pleasure. I think my interest in my work will return to me as soon as I get rid of some of the home anxieties and get fairly settled in my studio. I saw a wonderful twilight from the roof two or three evenings ago and I mean to try to paint it. It was very rich and solemn and gave me a distinct impression.  Sara vaccinated little Girard today and persuaded me to have it done also.  Doughty stood up manfully and had his little arm operated upon without whimpering. It was very amusing to see him.

Sunday Nov. 8" 1885. It has rained nearly all day and I have felt a great sense of satisfaction in having put the roof and the chimnies in order. I wrote to Alice, read the Tribune and in Bulners Parisians.  The weather still continues very warm although the wind has shifted to the North

Monday 9". I carried all the double sash up from the carriage house this forenoon, Sara and I washed them and I had them all in place by dinner time except the two in the dining room which I put on after dinner.  The storm has cleared and the weather is warm but it seemed best to do this now.  Afterwards I went up on the roof and swept
it off. By that time I was very tired and came to my room and dressed myself.  Calvert came in just before tea having come up from N.Y. this morning and been at Mr. Terrys new house all afternoon. Genl. Smith died on Sunday afternoon. There was a long notice of his life in the Freeman this evening. He was about one month older than my father. Poor man. He had been a power in Kingston in his time, with money and influence but he lived to see his property all vanish and none of his six sons I imagine able to help him in his old age.

Tuesday 10" I went up on the roof directly after breakfast and painted the weather boards and the vallies and gutters and put paint skins around the chimmnies which occupied me until dinner time. It was cold work as the wind blew from the North and the day was a typical November one, but I was anxious to get this done. I dressed myself after dinner and felt tired and despondent and to my great regret I 
am extremely irritable and eaisly [[easily]] disconcerted. Mrs. Montange called and is willing to take Sara and her little girl Ella back as the girl who took her place has also grown homesick and wants to go back to her old place. She saw Sarah who was overjoyed to return although she had about concluded to stay here. Sara went
down and saw Katy and Isaac Norths who proposed coming here and she has decided to come on the 20" so we are pleased all
round if Katy does not change her mind. My father spoke of the hard experiences of his early life when after his father died 

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