Cambridge - Milton
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. SEPT. 9, 1911 [Saturday, September 9, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Stormy
Raining heavily most of day with
easterly wind and lowering sky.
  Spent forenoon in Museum writing
letters. Blue Jay screaming in Jungle
almost incessantly in the pouring
rain. No other birds noted. Robert
Nesbitt called to see about putting a gutter
on porch at 6 Riedesel Street [6 Riedesel Avenue]. I
was to have taken 3.30 train for
Ipswich to spend Sunday with the
Townsends. At 2.30 I called up C.W.
by telephone. He seemed to think this storm
would continue over Sunday & that it
would not be wise for me to go. So
I went instead to Milton by 5.40
train to Readville where Harry C. [Harry Cunningham]
met me at station with a top buggy.
May gave me a warm reception at the
house. We sat in Roland's den all
the evening talking.
Milton
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. SEPT. 10, 1911 [Sunday, September 10, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & very warm with light southerly wind.
At sunrise heard Rose br. Grosbeak [rose-breasted grosbeak] clicking.
Later found a lot of birds in the old
orchard. They were mostly Bluebirds
(at least a dozen) and Chippies [chipping sparrows] (perhaps
a score) with a Phoebe, 2 Flickers
& 1 or 2 Song Sparrows along a nearby 
wall & Jays screaming still further off.
  Harry & I spent most of forenoon rambling
about place visiting gardens, orchard &
pasture where their fine old white oaks
are rather badly infested for first time by
nests of gypsy moth, perhaps 200 to oak tree.
  About noon a lot of Harry's relatives arrived
his mother, 2 nieces & a nephew with the
latter's wife & 2 daughters one 18 one 7 years old-
They all stayed to dinner & up to 4 P.M.
We had another walk with them about [four?]
In late P.M. Dr. Kennedy called. Still 
later Thomas brought in his children &
[?] phonograph. Harry, May & I spent
evening on piazza & in [?] den.