(Click HERE for the history of Flag Day.)
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It's also Garbage Day
48 degrees and clear at 5:45
The Weather Forecast from WKTV: "High pressure dominates our weather for the remainder of the week and weekend. Expect mainly sunny skies and seasonably warm weather. Highs by the weekend will approach the low to mid 80s. More humidity in the forecast for early next week. The next chance for rain is likely not until the middle of next week."
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Yesterday's weather was a great improvement over Tuesday's!
The sun shone now and then and it was cool enough for runners to make up for a lost day of training for the Boilermaker; for bicyclists to add extra miles to their normal routes, for lawns to be mown and for Bill Vetter and his crew to scrape, prime and start painting the north side of the old barn in Whiskey Hollow.
(More about the barn, below.)
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Summery Views
All of these images are "clickable" and then,
if you look at the little magnifying glass cursor and see a +(plus) sign, you can click a second time for an even larger view of some of the pictures!
Main Street.
Madison Street.
Peonies in the Library garden.
A very pretty "mystery" shrub - possibly a variety of Asystasia?
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You probably wouldn't notice unless you really looked, but on the eastern border of Library property, an orchard of ten apple trees has been planted ..............
................ and two "river birches" await planting near the Solar Panels.
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"Mustard field" next to Osborn Avenue.
"Patchwork Fields" in Hanover.
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FOR THE RECORD
What an unusual morning!
There is nothing of great interest "in the news," to speak of, nor do I have any Email requests for Announcements!
I must have covered all of them yesterday,
and so, I'll just wish all of you a
Good Weekend
and Happy Father's Day, too!
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The big old barn has quite a history. It was built by one of the Towers in the very early 1800s - probably around 1803 - as a sawmill and was originally located a couple hundred feet closer to the village sitting parallel to the road. In the 1840's it was where Buckingham square grand pianos were built; then it was a furniture factory. Around the time of the Civil War it was moved to its present location and became the warehouse for a grist mill that was just across the road, both being owned at that time by an Isaac Jones. When the mill went out of business, the Jones family apparently used it for rental storage space - at least it was packed full when the property was purchased by the Browns in 1968. It also served as a Marshall Township polling place in the 1920's. About twenty years ago, after three super-heavy March snowfalls, the roof collapsed and took the second floor down with it, but the following summer John Eisenhut - and a crew that included Jason Brown - put it all back together again!
In case you're wondering why the southern side of the structure never gets painted (and it does need it, badly) the clapboards are home to hundreds - more likely thousands - of Honey Bees! Because there is a shortage of both honey bees AND good painters, there will be no painting done, there!
