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Another fat hog went to market this morning; provision was made for pork for the home barrel and plans were laid \u2014 and sad I was to hear them! \u2014 to sell Kelly the cow. With her disposal, in one of the Springs months all of our old friends will have gone from the stable and a new generation we shall meet then at the milking. There is usually a warm spot in a farmwife\u2019s heart for a favorite cow, though it may be only a memory. One hears them speak of it. There is a certain to be mention of an \u201cold Brindle \u2014 as wise as any human\u201d and linked with a past \u201ci brought her from home with me.\u201d There would be, of course a \u201cSpotty she whom small lads learned to milk, a tiny pail- held between knees while seated on the edge of a milking stool, head against broad patient flank, Small hands tugging desperately when \u201cthis milk doesn’t seem to want to come.!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1912 milking a cow by a fence Prince Edward Island<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There would be \u201cthe jersey\u201d small and dainty. She was the one that grew older along with you and the youngsters. Indeed by this they could \u201crace you\u201d at the milking and tears ran down your cheeks \u2014and theirs the morning she was sold. \u201cA good thing she went in a truck\u201d you said, the parting was not so difficult and were you glad when the machine was gone out of sight beyond the hill through the vacancy in the stable was there for many days to come. So down the years one becomes attached to the likable dumb creatures that for the time are as familiar as the sun at morning. The Kelly cow with a crumpled and missing horn is the one of our milking herd whose fate was determined this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie was among those of his kin who hauled feed for some of the stock from trucks at the corner-store today. In the glory of this March afternoon, when it semed [sic] as if \u201call things that love the sun\u201d were out of doors. Delightful then the day had become with brilliant sunlight and the wind moving in the branches of the old spruces in the orchard with soft breath and it full of honeyed promises. Icicles dripped and snow that had clung to nooks of roofs disappeared. At morning, Jamie had tried a new undertaking. He hitched Mutt, his faithful; companion and friend to his small hand-sled Not without considerable effort, I am led to believe , and drawn to it doubtless by the fact that on the opposite slope two neighbor lads were about the from meadow with \u201cBiddy.\u201d She is a versatile creature. She ceases playing with her young masters each Spring, long enough to present them with an adorable litter and is also evidently more reconciled to the feel of harness than is Mutt. \u2018unless I led him\u201d Jamie explained \u201che just sat there!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ice-hauling, which work of late, years seems to go hand in hand with the seasonal hooking or quilting indoors, commenced today. Though neither James nor I could place the spot in stream or pond from whence the loads of it we saw winding out along a field, had been harvested. Other hauling as well there was in today\u2019s sunshine: grits to the mill and, heralding the return of the Spring sawing at the mill, first loads of lumber came then. A blue Jay called joyously from the orchard; a lone wild duck flew down to the river; Karolyn began to make a quilt and jeanie in moments of leisure continued knitting a sweater for grand-daughter, who made this the last port o\u2019 call on her day\u2019s outing. Mr. B. was off to town to visit the sick and small boys cleared a skating space on Kristy\u2019s Pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shipping cattle out of Charlottetown Harbour Prince Edward Island heading to Newfoundland<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This evening in a ceremony which ended beautifully for those most concerned, the kitchen pump, idle of late, was set back in place after certain repairs had been made to the cylinder. And in spite of fears and conjectures that perhaps the never-failing stream had disappeared for \u201cwe dropped a pebble down and herald no sound\u201d the machine works perfectly. There were moments of suspense after it was in place and we gathered round to see what would happen. Jmes pumping vigorously had that expression which shows no expectation of success. It was Jamie who heard sounds of rising water. He looked up at me and nodded and smiled. \u2018She\u2019s caught!\u2019 he said \u201cthere\u2019ll be no more bringing the hose from the other pump into this kitchen now! This method as always had proved most enetertatinign to Jmaie and me\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cListen, Ellen!\u201d James draws my attention to a weather forecast then adds since I have failed to hear it \u201csnow tomorrow!\u201d Well, we,all of us\u2026 young and older have had this lovely day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Ellen’s Diary, March 9, 1943 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Islandnewspapers.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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