Hiram E. Leonard Diary, May 1 - 7, 1873

“May 1st Thursday  pretty cold raw weather for May  I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 and went to bed about 9 ½ tiard & nearly sick with rheumatism & a cold etc.

“2nd Friday  rather a fine forenoon but rained some in afternoon & evening and a thunder shower with a hard shower of hail & rain about 6 & 7 oclock in afternoon the ground was covered white  I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 and went to bed about 9 ½ tiard & nearly sick with the rheumatism & a cold  Walla sick.

“3rd Saturday  I did my choars rather a fine warm day  I choared round some Jont Pollard helped fence one of the Brown lotts & I closed up about 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with the rheumatism & a cold [in margin] fence the North Brown lott.

“4th Sunday  A fine pleasant day & quite warm  I did my choars choared round at the farm some etc fixed my beef at home some wrote some etc choared round some went to bed about 9 nearly sick etc Willa sick and Caroline about sick.

“5th Monday  rather fine cool  grass weather & wet  I did my choars choared round some closed up about 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold & the rheumatism.

“6th Tuesday  cool raw wet weather  I did my choars & choared round some closed up about 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick with a cold & rheumatism.

“7th Wednesday  cool wet weather good for grass  I did my choars choared round some closed up at 8 & went to bed about 9 ½.”