Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] Oct. 2, 1902 [October 2, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Sunny most of day, dead calm
& oppressively warm.
  Spent day at farm picking grapes 
pears & apples with the men.
Went in the canoe as far as Birch
Island & thence through the woods.
A mahogany table, an old yard
winder, two old mirrors & 2 pairs
of andirons that I bought at S. Yarmouth [South Yarmouth]
last month reached the
farm to-day.
Wea. [Weather] Friday 3 [October 3, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear with light W. [west] to N.E. [northeast] wind.
  Spent the day at farm walking 
both ways. Pat & Hansen were cutting
& stooking corn. I worked all
P.M. "swamping" a new wood road
through woods east of pasture.
  When I reached the cabin about dark
I found Wambath there. He is trying
to raise some money to start in business
in Washington. I could not help 
him.
Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] Oct. 4, 1902 [October 4, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear with light N. [north] to N.E. [northeast] wind.
Cooler with a frosty feel in the
air at sundown.
  Spent A.M. "swamping" a new
wood road in Prescott's pines near
the border of the Barrett farm.
Dined at the farm. The men
finished "stooking" the corn to-day.
In P.M. walked in the Pulpit
Rock woods on the road begun
yesterday. Gilbert drove Charley
to town in P.M.
Wea. [Weather] Sunday 5 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with light S.E. [southeast] wind & heavy
rain in P.M.
  At day break heard a Gr. Blue Heron [Great Blue Heron]
& a bevy of Quail calling. The Heron seemed
to be flying very low down.
  Went to farm in A.M. & picked apples
with Hansen, getting about 2 blls [barrels]
of fine large Baldwins.
  Spent P.M. in the Blakeman woods
marking trees for cutting. The only
wild creatures I saw were a Gray
Squirrel & a Partridge.