Another Day on the Farm

May 23, 1933  I am still sick, spending most of my time in bed, and have severe pain.  John H. Reimers came over.  Mama and Mary baked and cleaned up dust.  The boys began digging post holes.  They cultivated the potato patch.  In the evening Mrs. K. B. Reimer and children came over.

Many days on the farm in the 1930s were like this one.  Cornelius was sick in bed with severe pain from kidney stones.  Margaret and Mary baked, so the house was filled with the smell of fresh bread.  They also cleaned up dust from a big storm the day before.  Jake, Corney, and John dug post holes for a fence and worked the potato patch.  And there were guests who came to visit – his brother-in-law and family John H. Reimer and his wife’ aunt Mrs. K. B. Reimer.  Her children included Margaret, whom son Corney would marry three years later.