June

Well Done Claude!

Monday 1^st…Scott left by seven o’clock this morning with the Hiscocks. The weather’s been clear, sunny but cold all day. Nothing of importance has happened. It was “Black Monday” with regards to School. After supper I collected a partridge berry plant for my classroom. I plan to have some plants at the window which should look nice. I’ve been reading this evening as usual. I popped over to Bart’s for some soft drink and I’m just off to bed now. Oh, Claude’s working for Edgar now. He plans to get a motor boat to visit the settlements in Southern Labrador during the summer. To show his face and to find out problems. Well done Claude!

Tidying Up

2^nd…Nothing much of note has happened all day in School today. Making full use of the Flannel Board the day passed smoothly by with the children cleaning – up the School surrounds which is absolutely covered with broken bottles, tin cans, paper etc. Before Recess this morning Pete turned up. He came in to collect stovepipes for his school. That’s why he hasn’t held any school to date apparently. He’s been given two sealskins. When I finished School today I went up to a boggy area just above the house and put some of the natural flora of this area in plastic pots (beheaded “Javex” bottles). By the time I’d finished that it was supper time of seal and potatoes. At supper Rita told me that Stephen wanted to see me at the School at 8.30 p.m. (I had volunteered to help him get his wood sawn up because Rube is away.) After cleaving wood and demolishing Uncle Jack’s old house with Claude I went down to Edgar’s to get a new axe handle.

A Gift: The First Salmon of the Year

I was returning from the storage place by Edgar’s pier when Ron Notley “sang out” for me to come down. I thought he was only joking but the kind fellah gave me the first salmon caught here

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