Cambridge - Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, July 23, 1917 Wea [Weather]
84 [degrees] Fine
Clear & hot. Most of forenoon dead
calm. Light easterly & southerly
airs stirring in P.M. giving some
relief from what seemed a very 
oppressive & trying day.
  Leaving home at 8.20 A.M.
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I motored to Concord via
Arlington & thence over a road wholly
new to me which leads through
Burlington to Bedford. It is
just an ordinary country road
but the region it traverses is very
picturesque & but thinly settled.
Reached Bedford at 9.20 & the Farm
about 15 minutes later.
  Worked all day at weeding &
watering, mostly in flower & 
strawberry beds. Only a few birds
singing 2 Robins, an Indigo bird, Wren
a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo], a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] & a Nashville
Warbler - the last in nearly full song
for several minutes. Night-heron heard
Flicker started from barn at evening.
Ripe raspberries, mulberries & gooseberries
Last strawberries picked on 21st.

Concord - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, July 24, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Early morn overcast & foggy. Forenoon clear, calm
& warm. Afternoon cloudy with cool east wind.
  Robins. Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo] (2), Indigo bird & Goldfinch & Wren
singing freely, Towhee in full song for several
minutes. Crows clamoring long & loud at
intervals as they have done constantly this 
year. Two silent Song Sparrows on lawn.
Robins nest with well-grown young on
rafter inside barn at Ritchie place.
Deer flies very numerous & annoying in
woodland places. Mosquitos troublesome
only at evening & early morning.
  Worked hard at weeding & watering
flower & strawberry beds. through forenoon.
Burbank finished cutting grass in field across
road. I have bought the hay in Lawrence's
field next ours for $100, he to make & put it
in barn. Our load went in this morning.
  Leaving Farm at 12.10 Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & I motored
to Cambridge via Bedford, Lexington &
Arlington reaching house at 1.10 Spent P.M.
in Museum. Played Victrola for C. [Caroline Brewster] after
supper on back piazza.