Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] Oct. [October] 6, 1900 Therm. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with E. [east] wind & fine rain at
evening.
  To farm at 8 A.M. Called on Mr. Howe
& had a talk with him about the
school house. At the farm supervised 
the building of a scaffold in the barn.
  In P.M. worked on the wood
roads in the Barrett Meadow &
Holden Hill woods. 
Wea. [Weather] Sunday [October] 7 [1900] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with fine drizzling rain, scarce
more than a dense mist all day.
  In A.M. walked to Davis's Hill,
in P.M. through the Blakemore &
Holden's Hill woods. Blazed trees for
cutting & watched the birds &
squirrels. Red Squirrels are numerous
this autumn; Chipmunks fairly so.
I have seen but few Grays.
Mrs. John Barrett died at E. [East] Lexington
to-day as the result of an operation for
appendicitis performed ten days ago.
Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] Oct. [October] 8, 1900 Therm [Thermometer]
  Sunny with drifting clouds, several showers
in P.M. and heavy continuous rain after dark.
Oppressively warm with light S.W. [south west] wind.
  Spent the entire day in the Barrett
Meadow where I had Bensen, Hansen,
Jimmy Flannery & Petersen at work. 
We nearly completed the new roadway.
Saw a flock of 20 Black Ducks, an
Osprey, a Marsh Hawk & 2 Herring Gulls.
Wea. [Weather] Tuesday [October] 9 [1900] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Rained hard all last night & through
the whole of to-day & this evening
it is simply pouring. The wind
was N.E. [north east] all day & strong in the P.M.
  Spent most of the day in the
new cabin where the carpenters were
busily at work on the structures. The oak
window & door frames were
put in yesterday.
  In late P.M. walked to the Barrett
Meadow & the E. [east] end of Ball's Hill.