Wea. [Weather] Thur. [Thursday] Aug. 23, 1906 [August 23, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & intensely hot with burning
S.W. [southwest] wind. Thunder showers at evening,
followed by a cool, almost chill, N.E. [northeast] wind.
  Spent A.M. in Museum writing. To
Portland with C. [Caroline] by 1 P.M. train. It
was suffocating in the parlor car. On
arriving drove to the Lafayette where we
met Dr. Gehring by appointment at 5.30.
He had a long interview with C. [Caroline] & me at
once and a shorter one after supper.
He returned to Bethel by 8.30 train.

Wea. [Weather] Friday 24 [August 24, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear & deliciously cool.
  C. [Caroline] & I walked to Deering Park after
breakfast & spent an hour there.
After that we rambled through State &
Irving Streets admiring the fine old houses.
Lunched at the hotel at 12.15
& took the 1.35 train for Boston
arriving at 4.15 & taking a Fitchburg
train out to Cambridge.
  C. [Caroline] & I called at Walter Deanes
at 7.45 to see his brother Charlie
who had just arrived from Chicago.

Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] Aug. 25, 1906 [August 25, 1906 ]Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear with light N.E. [northeast] wind.
Cool at morning & evening, warm at midday.
  To Concord by 8.34 train. C. [Caroline]
drove me to the station & James
met me at Concord. I took Adams
Tolman to the farm to inspect the
various buildings with a view of
increasing insurance on them.
  Walked to cabin & dined there.
  James & Charlie came down at 1 P.M.
We worked until 5 clearing out brush
& pruning trees along the river path.

Wea. [Weather]  Sunday 26 [October 26, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy, clearing about 4 P.M. Warm with
light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Spent A.M. with Forbush working
about the cabins. Walked to the farm
in P.M. & picked a basket of peaches
there, the first crop from my young trees.
  At the farm I heard a Wood Peewee &
saw a flock of 22 Bluebirds passing overhead, 
but noted absolutely nothing else. At Ball's
Hill saw a small mixed flock (1 D. penn. [Dendroica pennsylvanica],
5 D. virens [Dendroica virens], 1 Mniotilla & some Chickadees) in 
A.M. At evening saw 72 [in a flock] Barn Swallows, 
a few Swifts, a Kingbird and a few Bobolinks.
Heard 2 Swamp Sparrows & a Maryland Yl. thr. [Maryland yellowthroat] sing.