Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1916 [October 4, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fair.
70 [degrees] max. [maximum]
  A warm & perfectly windless day, the
sun shining feebly & intermittently thro. [through]
thin, fleecy clouds that more or less
obscured the sky.
  A vile, grippy cold which began to
manifest itself on Monday had so
developed this morning that I had half a
mind to stay in bed - but did not
although my walks abroad were confined
to the neighborhood of the house with the
exception of one that extended to the
Berry Pasture where Monson & his helpers
were digging a ditch in the forenoon.
In the afternoon I set five men to husking
& harvesting yellow corn of which they got
35 bushels. Harris & his man finished
cementing the pond. George graded flower
bed front of house with sifted loam.
I saw no birds save in & close about our
dooryard where 2 Cat-birds [Catbird], 2 Robins, 2 
Towhees, 2 Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] & several Yellow-rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler]
appeared & reappeared at frequent intervals.
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] motored to Lancaster in P.M.
taking strawberries & other things to C. [Caroline Brewster] 

Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Oct. 5, 1916 [October 5, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
70 [degrees] Autumn coloring
  Cloudless, windless, delightfully warm.
Altogether a perfect Indian summer day.
Autumn coloring brilliant here & there but
not generally as yet. Many swamp maples
blazing, others still green. Sumachs, including 
poison ivy & dogwood, past their best.
Golden rod [Goldenrod] mostly out of flower (except
S. caesea). Asters novae-angliae & laevis still
making a glorious display along our lane.
  The dooryard shrubbery swarming with birds
all day. Most of them White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] &
Juncos with 4 Robins, 3 Cat-birds [Catbird], a
Song Sparrow, 2 Towhees & a few Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler].
A White-bellied Nuthatch [White-breasted Nuthatch] in elms. 6 Jays
eating acorns in scarlet oak. Bluebirds
calling in early morning. Dexter reports
a Tennessee Warbler in his grounds. Also
a heavy flight of Yellow rumps [Yellow-rumped Warbler] in village.
  Spent most of day in & close about house. 
With men in Berry Pasture much of
forenoon, cutting brush, ditching etc. i.e. they
were. Cold better but still troublesome.
Harris working on underpinning of house.