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happiness and success.
[[underlined]] Celine [[/underlined]] wires she has left per steamer for Coconut Grove
[[underlined]] Jan 24 [[/underlined]] Intense work [[underlined]] preparing for arrival of Celine. [[/underlined]] Carpenter here and plasterer
Replanted sisal plants from lower garden to upper garden
[[underlined]] Jan 25. [[/underlined]] Another very busy day SS. Shawnee will be in tomorrow 7 AM.
[[underlined]] Jan 26. [[/underlined]] Left in dark with Catlow in motor car to the docks waited there till [[strikethrough]] 9:30 AM [[/strikethrough]] 10 A.M. Pleasant warm day
[[underlined]] Jan 28. [[/underlined]] Cool night 
50°F North Wall + East wall finished all others cast lower portion
[[underlined]] Jan 29 [[/underlined]] (Sunday) All day home with [[underlined]] Celine. [[/underlined]] Cold night. Temp down to 32° and light frost [[underlined]] First frost since 1918 [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Jan 30. [[/underlined]] The Algersons arrived by boat bringing the Pekinese dog along and a lot of 
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kitchen junk, trunks and what not.
Had visit of Dr. [[red underlined]] Allerton Cushman [[/red underlined]] and his son.
More hayseeds [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] in motor cars, so called [[red underlined]] tourists from the North simply drive in to see  "Bryan's Place" [[/red underlined]] This becomes irritating
Getting warmer
[[underlined]] Jan 31 [[/underlined]] Since butler and cook have arrived must wait for my meals, must take them at specified hours. [[red underlined]] All the simple and pleasant life where it [[strikethrough]] takes [[/strikethrough]] took me less to prepare my own meals than to ask for it is gone. [[/red underlined]] All the kitchen junk, pots and pans and unnecessary complications are a good illustration how one complicates life absurdedly by [[red underlined]] conventional unnecessary trappings. Feel rather disgusted [[/red underlined]] at it all.