Monday, June 2nd

Last night was pelting wet with high gusts of wind from N.E. The day has been gusty with occasional rain and very cold and disagreeable. The evening and night are tempestuous—very heavy rain and high wind. The barometer fell suddenly before the gale; now we feel the comforts of our waterproof house in which we defy the elements, and indeed take pleasure in their violence, with only some drawback in the consideration of how many are still in the uncomfortable plight from which we have just escaped. Employed the day indoors, page 189 making up our half year's accounts. Henry and the men laid down skids for the boat on the shore. Andy finished a handsome dresser for the kitchen, which now only wants our display of Delph to be well furnished. The evening being dreary, the men turn off to bed before seven o'clock! We do not keep it up longer than nine ourselves.