Cambridge
Snow drops & yellow crocuses bloom on Farrar St
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Mar. 5, 1914 [March 5, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Judge Abbott calls. Fine
Clear & mild with light N.W. [northwest] wind.
Slight freeze last night. Percy reports
seeing a whole bed of snow-drops &
yellow crocuses in full bloom in front
of Robert Morrison's house on Farrar St. [Street].
The maid said they began flowering
two or three days ago. We have not yet.
  Noted only a Jay & 2 House Sparrows.
  Worked most of day on final revision
of Saw-whet Owl story. C. [Caroline Brewster] type copied
the last of it in forenoon. At 4 P.M.
I began Hawk Owl story & wrote the
first page of it before 7.
  Judge Abbott called at 2 & stayed
until 4. He thinks Haley is not making
good & believes a new Principal should
replace him ere long. He says the
Wolfeboro people want a soldier's monument
& suggests it is erected in front of the
town hall. I said I should be inclined
to agree to this if, on looking at the
proposed site, it seemed suitable from our
point of view. Gilbert motored C. to
Wellesley in P.M. to inspect a boarding
kennel. It seemed very satisfactory.
[margin]Pierce & 3 men spraying our trees rather rather extensive with lime-sulphur for
San Jose scale.[/margin]

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Mar. 6, 1914 [March 6, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Snowing thick & fast from 10 A.M.
to 4 P.M. About five inches of damp
heavy snow fall, loading all the
trees & even their lesser twigs.
  Saw a Chickadee & heard a Crow
and a Jay, all in the Garden.
  Worked all day on Hawk Owl story.
First rewrote & considerably expanded
the crudely written page done late
yesterday and then added three
fresh pages based on matter
in the journal and hence not
difficult to recompose. Kept at
it ceaselessly until almost 7 P.M.
  It is surprizing how well I
stand this ceaseless daily stunt of seven
or eight hours, getting no fresh
air & taking no exercise. As far
as I can see it has told on me
not at all this winter.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] in town most of day. She &
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud in hall this evening.
Parlor & huggermugger closed to day for summer