Concord  
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Nov. 14, 1918 [November 14, 1918] Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees] Fine
Heavy rainfall thro. [through] most of last night.
Early morning cloudy. Remainder of
day brilliantly clear with fresh
westerly wind. Sunset calm & serene
with frosty feeling air.
  As I was standing near our barn at 10
A.M. an adult [male] Pine Grosbeak came
flying low westward over me, uttering
his three-syllabled whistled call every
few seconds, and showing bright rosy red
all over in the clear sunlight.
  Besides this beautiful bird I saw
a single Jay & 2 Goldfinches eating
sunflower seeds at Ritchie place
-where a Tree Sparrow was heard
chirping. Thus the bird-life hereabouts
would seem to be almost non-existent
now.
  Working all day with the men,
clearing up rubbish, cutting brush etc
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored to Cambridge to
take C. [Caroline Brewster] into Boston. So I dined 
alone.

Concord  
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Nov. 15, 1918 [November 15, 1918] Wea [Weather]
32 [degrees], 60 [degrees] Fine
A bright sunny day throughout and
comparatively warm, with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
The ground was white with hoar frost &
also slightly frozen, at day break.
  Juncos here again in moderate numbers
at least a dozen of them chasing one
another through the orchard with happy
twittering & much flashing of white outer
tail feathers. A Tree Sparrow among them.
Besides these I saw 2 Goldfinches & heard
a Pine Linnet & two or three Crows.
  The customary out-door farm work
kept us all very busy through the entire
day. We ploughed several small
plots of cultivated land, hauled some
manure from the barn cellar & muck
from meadow at foot of orchard slope,
cut down a few pines near Bungalow 
for covering strawberry beds etc. etc.
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] went twice to village to take
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & Miss Balch to & from
the Emersons & railroad station.