L. Umbagog [Lakeside Umbagog]
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. JUNE 11, 1909 [Friday, June 11, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Clear
Sunny & warm with fresh N.W. [northwest] 
to W. [west] wind.
  Spent most of day on house
boat tinkering the canoes & other
things. Jim made over one
awning which we need now that
the days are getting warm. It
seems as if we should never come 
to the end of all these preparations.
Fortunately our present anchorage is
as good bird bird as any other.
Such a chorus of song as I enjoyed
there to-day. Even a Winter Wren
came & a Pileated Woodpecker & a
pair of Broad-wings [Broad-winged Hawks] & an Eagle &
a Duck with brood of young. The
Muskrats were [?] in [?].
  Had several short sails & a long
paddling trip at evening.
[margin] Mosquitos & black flies increasing. Rhodies [Rhododendrons] in full bloom. [/margin]
L. Umbagog [Lakeside Umbagog]
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. JUNE 12, 1909 [Saturday, June 12, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Sunny
Sunny but very smoky, from
distant forest fires. Warm with
fresh W. [west] wind.
  We are still anchored in the
pretty & secluded little cove near the
Lake House. It is sheltered from
every wind that blows & alive with
birds which sing to us all day long
while at night the chorus of trilling
Toads & peeping Hylas is something to
remember & to my ears delightful. 
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] is catching chub from the boat
& we find them delicious, better than
any fresh water fish I know.
  I walked to the Tyler bog this morning
(8.30 - 10.30). It has changed but 
little since 1891. Spent most of day
on house boat. Out sailing twice.
Paddled over flooded meadows at evening.