Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Dec. 22, 1918 [December 22, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fair.
Early morn sunny. Mostly thin
cloudy after 10 A.M. Air warm
& almost perfectly windless.
Lawns as green as ever. Little
or no frost left in ground.
(Raining at 9 P.M.)
  Garden birds. Chickadees, Crows &
a Jay, heard.
  Started for a walk at 10.30. Met
Townsend on Brattle St. & accompanied
him to the Dunbar house on
Highland St. Kept on thence up
Brattle St. to the Gray place where
a Downy Woodpecker & a Starling were
seen. Also 10 Gulls high overhead
on their way to Fresh Pond.
  Miss Allyn & MIss Hoppin
at dinner with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & me.
We had a roast (Concord) chicken.
They departed about 3.30; after that
I wrote letters & had a nap.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Dec. 23, 1918 [December 23, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Fine.
Clear, calm, mild. Real Indian
summer weather. A warm rain
last night washed everything clean
& left the grass over our lawn as
vivid green as it was three months
ago.
  Garden birds. A Gold-crest & a
Chickadee together in shrubbery by
Museum gate; 6 Cedar birds eating
hawthorn berries in tree at rear 
of house; a Blue Jay screaming &
several Crows cawing.
  It was interesting to see the Cedar birds
visit the Parkman's apple singly to
inspect its abundant & conspicuous
fruit - not as yet tempered by frost & snow
to their liking, apparently for they
ate but little if any of it.
  Another idle day spent mostly
in the house. Walked up Brattle St.
to Nichols house at noon & thence
escorted Lucy Dexter & May to their
house. C.W. Haley [Charles W. Haley] came by appn't [appointment]
at 2 P.M. to talk over affairs at Wolfeboro.
He stayed almost 2 hours. Charles
Lamb came at 8 & left at 8.30 P.M.