Wea. [Weather] FRI. [Friday] May 15, 1903 Ther. [Thermometer]
50 [degrees]
80 [degrees]
Clear & warm with light W. [west] to N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Walked to Davis and Ball's Hill after
breakfast. Quite a bird wave to-day.
Arrivals D. striata [Dendroica striata] 1 [in full song]  Seiurus nov. [Seiurus noveboracensis] 21, 1 [in full song],
Vireo olivaceus 2 [in full song], Contopus virens 1 [in full song],
Chordeiles virginianus 1 [in full song] .
Spent day about place. Worked the
wild gardens in P.M. Wrote to
E.H. Forbush engaging him to take charge
of this place during the summer.
Wea. [Weather] Saturday 16 [May 16, 1903] Ther. [Thermometer]
48 [degrees]
68 [degrees]
Clear with chill N.E. [northeast] wind.
  Took 8.13 train to Cambridge, met
Mackintire in Harvard Square & went
to Brighton, Brookline & Dorchester
to examine house property for mortgages
for our Trust Estate. Reached our
house at 1.30 & dined with C. [Caroline] on
the piazza. We afterwards called on
the Deanes. Walter laid up bad cold.
C. [Caroline] escorted me to North Avenue & I
returned to W. [West] Bedford by 5.01 train
crossing river alone & walking to farm.
Wea. [Weather] SUN. [Sunday] May 17, 1903 Ther. [Thermometer]
44 [degrees]
88 [degrees]
Clear & hot with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Spent forenoon at & near Ball's Hill.
Geo. Keyes & Miss Brown called & spent an
hour or more. A Mr. & Mrs. Lincoln from
the Butterick's also lunched & saw the cabin.
Wrote letters in P.M. & worked the
garden at evening. The mosquitoes have
been swarming for the past week. I never
knewn them so bad in Concord before.
They quite equal those at Umbagog.
Wea. [Weather] Monday 18 [May 18, 1903] Ther. [Thermometer]
58 [degrees]
93 [degrees]
Clear & intensely hot; light S. [south] wind.
  Took a walk to Birch Field after
breakfast. Lots of birds but
no north-bound migrants. Saw a Blackpoll.
Pat weeding & spacing the [?]
gardens. We all worked on
watering in the late afternoon.
Everything is showing the effects of
the drought which is now acute.
I walked up the road as far
as the Swift farm at evening.