At Home in the Huddle 2012

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It's Garbage Day.

60 degrees and hazy at 6:30

The Weather Forecast from YNN: "A weakening cold front will pass overhead today with extra clouds and a few spotty showers. Not everyone will be getting wet. Temperatures will remain quite warm with highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s. A warm front will arrive later tonight with increasing clouds and a few scattered showers. Lows will be in the mid to upper 60s. Outside of a few showers early tomorrow, most of the day will be rain free with hazy, hot, and humid conditions developing. Highs will be near 90.
Wednesday will be very hot with hazy sun and highs in the low to mid 90s.
A cold front will arrive later Thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms developing. Before this cold front arrives, it will be another hot and humid day with highs around 90. Temperatures will turn more seasonable to finish the week into the weekend."

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IN THE MAIL

Pop Warner bottle drive

Saturday, July 14th from 10 to 12

at Nickelback Redemption Center.

Bottles can also be dropped off between now and July 14th -

simply state the bottles are to go to

the Waterville Pop Warner account.

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The softball championship game for Tri-County Little League between Waterville’s Brothertown Optimist team and the Brookfield Girls team was held on Thursday, June 14, at West Winfield. The game was decided in the sixth inning when Brookfield scored the winning run. The score was Brookfield 12, Brothertown Optimist 11. Both teams are to be congratulated for a great season.

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Helen Voll celebrated her 91st birthday on June 14 at a dinner party hosted by Gail Prentice at Lutheran Care .

Behind Helen are Gail, Faith Gentile and Jean O'Neal.

Helen would love to have visitors. She is at the upper building of the Lutheran Home in the Valley Crest Wing, Room 422. The address is 110 Utica Street, Clinton, NY 13323.

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- to Virginia Wratten, a longtime employee of Curtis Lumber, who is the recipient of this year's "Pride of Workmanship" honor awarded by the Waterville Rotary Club. On hand for the presentation were Frank Putney, the manager of Curtis Lumber, his supervisor, and several members of Ginny's family.

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For Christmas, Jody Hildreth's family gave him a kayak! For Father's Day, they gave him a "day off" to christen it, and he headed right for Nine Mile Swamp! Sometime between Christmas and yesterday, he sold his website "Kidwings," bought a new camera, and now has a brand new website called Photoperch: here are just two of many beautiful photographs that he took yesterday that you can see by clicking that link.

Damsel Fly

A Green Heron.

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Of Historical Interest

This stained glass window, which was in the old Methodist Church and is now owned by the Corning Musem of Glass, will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City.

"The Righteous Shall Receive a Crown of Glory"

(Brainard Memorial Window), ca. 1901.

I certainly would not have known about that had I not been having an Email "conversation" with a Mr. Wayne Boucher of Cambridge, England, who is assembling a semi-definitive list of Tiffany stained glass windows (excluding houses). He wrote, "In 1910 Tiffany published a partial list of his windows, and in there he has the following entry for Grace Episcopal Church, Waterville: the Tower Memorial Window, 'Our Saviour'. "

He had found a photograph of the window on this blog and was inquiring about the status of the building and the window. I assured him that both were safe, and added that it is my understanding that there is a second "Tiffany" in the church and said that I would try and photograph it for him and learn what details are available.

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Signs of the Season