Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan. 12, 1918 [January 12, 1918] Wea [Weather]
48 [degrees] max Various
Forenoon dark cloudy with
incessant heavy rain which
flooded streets & sidewalk with
slushy water. Afternoon sunny
calm & delightfully mild.
  Garden birds. Two Chickadees,
a Jay, 2 Starlings and a flock
of 8 Cedar Waxwings. The last named
birds appeared about 9.30 A.M.
in the Parkman's apple tree where
they remained for half an
hour or more eating its still
abundant fruit. They one & all
looked uncommonly dull colored
at least as viewed by me through
an opera glass & the Museum windows.
  My forenoon & late afternoon
were devoted to the Henslow
Sparrow article, not even yet completed;
the mid afternoon to having my
hair cut at Marks in Harvard Sq.
which swarmed with young men 
in khaki & naval uniforms.
Usual evening reading & Vic. [Victrola] music
with C. [Caroline Brewster] down in front hall until 9 P.M.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 13, 1918 [January 13, 1918] Wea
12 [degrees] Fine
Cloudless and cold with brisk
northerly wind and everything
frozen tight again. Three daylight
readings of ther. [thermometer] on back piazza
gave 12 [degrees] at 9.30 A.M.; 10 [degrees] at 1.30
P.M.; 10 [degrees] at 4.30 P.M. It is not
often at any season that the temperature varies so slightly
during practically the whole of a cloudless day.
  Garden birds. One cock House 
Sparrow - literally nothing else
wearing feathers & set eyes on by 
me.
  I was about to begin letter
writing in Museum at 10 A.M. when
Harry Spelman appeared with various
dealers catalogues of garden vegetable
seeds. We spent remainder of forenoon
making selections fr. them for spring use.
Besides Miss Allyn & Walter Deane
we had at dining Johnny Ames who
brought his entire collection of war
trophies & talked most interesting about them.