It's Garbage Day
48 degrees, wet and windy at 7:00 a.m.
48 degrees, wet and windy at 7:00 a.m.
WKTV's meteorologist predicts that: "Today will be the coolest, cloudiest, wettest day for the next seven. Clouds, occasional showers and sprinkles, breezy, and cool with highs only in the mid 50s.
Decreasing clouds tonight with patchy fog late. Lows in the upper 30s.
Sunshine returns on Friday, with highs returning to the mid 60s. Warmer on Saturday and sunny with highs in the low 70s."
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IN THE MAIL
(More about the church and its history to follow.)
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Saturday At the Library
Movie Matinée at 11:00 a.m.
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SATURDAY EVENING
WCS Jr. / Sr. Prom, at White Eagle.
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SUNDAY is Mother's Day
IN THE MAIL
Following up on the article about Troy Bishopp's photographs that I linked to in yesterday's post, - here they are:
"Along the Towpath"
"Hand Split Locust Fence Posts made by Rudy Miller of Georgetown"
(Thanks, Troy!)
"Hand Split Locust Fence Posts made by Rudy Miller of Georgetown"
(Thanks, Troy!)
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From Donna Barnes-Wright, this announcement and date for you to put on your calendar right away:
(More about the church and its history to follow.)**********************
Yesterday's "ride-around"
Right on West Main Street, where the stack of orders for Prom corsages and Mother's Day arrangements have the girls hopping!
I swung around the Library driveway so that I could take a picture showing you just where the new observatory is located. It's a bit behind the "Children's Garden" between the big garden and the Solar Panels. (Click to enlarge.)
There really is quite an expansive side lawn, and I've heard whispers that there will be several changes in that area, too. In fact -- was that cluster of evergreens behind the hop yard and over near the Petries' fence there last week? And what are those three rocks doing just sitting there?
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I had been keeping an eye on the young trees in the walnut plantation on Tower Street and next to Huntington Place, waiting for some signs of life: it's there, and it looks as if all of the trees are leafing out.
In dark hardwoods next to Greene Road patches of Foam Flower bloom ........
......... while in open fields, dandelions are going to seed.
In dark hardwoods next to Greene Road patches of Foam Flower bloom ........
......... while in open fields, dandelions are going to seed.
He's there! This is the first time this year that I've been able to see the sole resident of the small pond across the road from Woodman Pond, near Hamilton.
I came back from Hamilton by way of Solsville and Lyon's Mills. The old millpond looks as if the tide had gone out, and I'm afraid it's not coming back in.
I don't know when the Mills were built and began operation, but I think that it was in 1916 that a series of June rain storms caused dams in Solsville, Lyon's Mills and Oriskany Falls all to wash out. According to The Waterville Times, Lyon's Mills was back in operation selling fence posts, shingles and the like, within two or three years.
I found this 1908 post card of the mill on Ebay.
Perhaps one of our local collectors would like it?
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Perhaps one of our local collectors would like it?
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COMING EVENTS
Friday at the High School
AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE
8:00 A.M.
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Friday at the High School
AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE
8:00 A.M.
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Saturday At the Library
Movie Matinée at 11:00 a.m.
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SATURDAY EVENING
WCS Jr. / Sr. Prom, at White Eagle.
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SUNDAY is Mother's Day
FOR THE RECORD
From the Christian Science Monitor, May 9, 2012.
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From the Christian Science Monitor, May 9, 2012.**********************
Have a great weekend, everyone!
