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Tuesday Oct. 23" 1888. It has rained slightly nearly all day. Tom has picked the Spitzenburgh apples but had to work nearly all day in a sort of mist. Out of the 23 days of this month, some one says 17 have been rainy. I went down town to  do some errands and I saw Mr. Lindsley. He spoke of Joe having been out to Fort Bridges. I gathered from what he told me that although he was spending a good deal of money travelling about, that they had made up their minds it was cheaper to pay his bills in this way than to have him stay at home and interfere in the business. This evening Girard and I went up to the Academy of Music to hear Warner Miller. The place was crowded notwithstanding the unfavorable night and he made an excellent address and I think produced a favorable impression. 

Wednesday 24" It rained this morning and was still raining when I went down town, but it cleared in the forenoon and the wind blew from the N.W. for a time with great violence. Tom is at the apples while I have been fixing the catches in some of the doors, carrying in some of our supply of apples into the cellar and doing many things. There is never a lack of something to do in a big house like this. I wish I could afford to own it and had a sufficient income to keep it up. I would take pleasure in making it pleasant and comfortable and I would like to employ the remainder of my life in this way. I look forward to the practice of my art with no enthusiasm, rather with dread that I have no other means of livelihood - Dwightie was here with Sara the most of the day and Mrs. Dans came up this afternoon. The skies have been fair today and the effects superb. The color is beginning to loose its greatest brilliancy. "Gertrudes tree" is just beginning to brown a tint from its rich yellow. It all goes by and does not move me as it once did. I have too many cares and anxieties to be affected by this Autumn as I once was

Thursday 25 At last a beautiful, bright, mild day. Tom is picking the apples beyond the house toward the common, while I have done a thousand things, among the rest went down town and had a man come up from Carter's to see about putting a waste pipe in the sink of the upper kitchen. Have carried some of the apples for our winter supply into the cellar and sent Mary her two boxes of canned preserves and two barrels of apples. I have no time to look at the landscape.

Friday 26" I am very tired tonight. Have been down town where I got some paint and this afternoon painted part of the kitchen from down stairs. Spent the forenoon with the apples which Tom is slowly gathering it is tedious work. It has been a beautiful day but there are again indicators of rain. A letter came from Mary this morning with a check for her school Tax. She says Lucy will come home on Monday. Mrs. Geo. Coykendall came to invite us to a surprise party to Peter & Mrs. Phillips next Thursday evening, the 40" (she said) anniversary of their marriage. Sara has gone to Liscombs hall to an entertainment for the Baptist Sunday School. I am reading Anna Karenina with much interest 

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