Concord - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Dec. 2, 1915 [December 2, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Rosy sunrise over heavily hoar-frosted
landscape. Clouds gathering through forenoon. Snowing
fast by 12.30. It ceased by 3 P.M. Only a thin blanket
of it fell or at least remained unmelted. Dead calm
all day. Air intensely chilly. Ground hard frozen.
Several purple ladies' delight blossoms & two of
yellow Coreopsis untouched by frost, in front of house.
At Concord Farm: 30 or 40 Tree Sparrows & 
a few (5 or 6) Juncos flitting about millet
patch chasing one another to & fro among the
apple tree branches: a single Robin flying low S. [South]; [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] at suet (put
up last spring): 2 Golden crests [Golden-crested Wren] in Birch
Field; 30+ [in a flock] Canada Geese flying low, due
south, over Green Field & Bensen's house at
11.30 A.M. Heard them first afar off the N. [north].
Good view of them passing a minute or two
later. They flew in V-formation & honked freely.
Started 2 Partridges in Birch Field. Cock Pheasant
feeding front of house at noon.
  Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] met John Lawrence at Concord village at
8.45 & brought back signed & witnessed deed to
the land I have just bought. Meanwhile I
staked it out - a strip 10' [feet] wide by 471' [feet] long.
Monson, Casper & Burbank helping.
Burbank & I went later to Birch Field &
cut more pines for Christmas greens etc.
Timmy killed a Plymouth Rock pullet - & was
soundly thrashed for it.
  Gilbert & I left farm at 2 P.M. & motored
to Cambridge via Arlington & Fresh Pond. Saw
9 Pheasants in snowy field in Lexington.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Dec. 3, 1915 [December 3, 1915] 3, 1915 Wea [Weather]
Dull
  Cloudy & mild but intensely chilly
with little or no wind. The light snowfall
of yesterday all melted to-day.
  In Garden: White-throated Sparrow heard,
half a dozen or more House Sparrows seen.
  Spend day in Museum supervising
completion of work on pigeon house.
It has outlasted what I had anticipated
many times because consisting of series
of experiments with pulleys, slides etc. for
letting the birds out & in by means of
cords worked from below & proving for
the most part unworkable at first.
  Walter Faxon called at 9.30, staying
through forenoon. He has changed his 
original views materially respecting the
Great War and seems now inclined
to favor the German side of it rather
liberally. I gave him two sets of all
my duplicate copies of my writings (one
for Dr. Tyler). Am spending a solitary 
evening E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] having gone to the Bee.