Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Aug.7, 1916 [August 7, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fair.
88 [degrees] Cats exterminate Chipmunks but
do not molest our birds, apparently.
  No break as yet in this protracted & very
trying spell of sultry weather, the light
southeasterly breeze seems a trifle cooler than
yesterday, however, doubtless because the Sun
is shining only dimly through thin clouds
& smoky haze. Heat & humidity intense in
mid-afternoon. Evening comfortably cool with strong breeze.
  Red eyed & Solitary Vireos [,] Chippies [Chipping Sparrows] & an
Indigo bird [Indigo bunting] singing rather freely & a Wood Pewee
occasionally during early morning hours.
House Wrens feeding second brood of young in
box in apple tree behind studio.
  Two cats, haunting the place at all hours, do not
seem to molest or even alarm our nesting birds
or their young but Chipmunks, very numerous a
month ago have since totally disappeared & so
have our two attractive little wild Rabbits!
Indigo bird singing long & well at sunset.
  Spent forenoon in room writing. Began
again after luncheon but had to give it
up because of heat prostration accompanied
by nausea. Sat on Studio piazza after that.
Evening spent in parlor.

Glendale.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Aug. 8, 1916 [August 8, 1916]  Wea [Weather] Mixed.
90 [degrees] max. [maximum]
  Forenoon sunny, intensely hot & humid,
densely hazy. More trying than anything before
this summer. Heavy thunder showers [thundershowers] at noon.
Within half an hour ther [thermometer] fell from 90 [degrees] to 78 [degrees].
Afternoon dark cloudy & agreeably cool with
occasional light showers.
  Not much bird music but a few species
singing rather freely, especially at early morn [morning] &
towards evening, among them Red-eyed [vireo] &
Solitary Vireo, Tanager, Indigo bird [Indigo bunting] & Chippy [Chipping sparrow].
Very few Cicadas here this summer. I hear
only one or two daily. Bell Frogs no longer
vocal. Tree Toad calling between showers.
  My room too hot for occupancy; even after
cooling showers. Spend much of day in Studio
playing Victrola for Mrs Bullet in forenoon, for
Dan [Daniel Chester French] & Miss Longman - whose bust he has almost
completed - in afternoon. In late P.M. packed
my trunk & portmanteau - a trying task
for the room was stifling. We spent
evening in parlor, every one but me absorbed
in books & newspapers.