Wednesday

It's Recyclables Day!
64.8 degrees; misty moist.

WKTV predicts that: "Rain should end sometime around mid-morning Wednesday. There could be some clearing from Midday onward. But, then we run the risk of a few new storms to develop. Storms should be isolated in nature and not widespread like the overnight and early morning activity.
Beyond tomorrow night, things change big time. A pesky upper level storm system will pivot its way into the Northeast, combine with lower level moisture and produce widespread daytime showers and storms for Friday and Saturday."

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FARMER'S MARKET

in the Park

11:00 - 6:00

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BAND CONCERT

in the Park

6:30 - 8:30

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Sanger Hill Road mystery solved!

I received a very nice E-letter, yesterday, from Katie Cavanaugh, who wrote:

"My family and I are the ones building a new home next to Richard Hughes on Sanger Hill Road. My husband Michael is a 1991 graduate of Waterville High School and had been looking forward to moving back to the area for years. We decided to make the move Thanksgiving weekend of 2007 and now are living at the Brunswick until the house is built.

We moved here from Warrensburg, New York, a little town just north of Lake George. We had a house in a cozy little neighborhood, but as the years went on all of our friends either moved away or had gone on to bigger and better things. We were at least an hour away from family. Nothing was holding us there, so we decided to pack up and leave.

This has been a really good move for us. My family and I have been making new friends and acquaintances since we got here and Micheal's family is in very close proximity to us.

So, I just wanted to introduce myself and my family to you and now it's not a big secret who will be living in the new home on Sanger Hill Road."

Thanks, Katie! And Welcome to Waterville!

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Now and then, blog-readers who live in other parts of the world ask for a few "just plain
pictures of Main Street."

O.K.

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"But it's right twice a day!"

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I drove out to Hanover to see if I could find anyone picking beans - either manually or mechanically - but without luck.

What I did find, however, was this combine and Mr. Fredolyn Zweifel harvesting oats.


The combine cuts the stalks and separates the grain which is then loaded into a truck and taken to a feed mill.

What's returned to the field - the stalks - is "straw," and is baled and used as bedding in cattle barns. (A very small quantity of straw may be chopped very finely and added to a cow's regular diet to help prevent "milk fever." But that's another lesson.)

As of the fifteenth of the month, I'll have lived in Waterville for forty years: high time that I learned which crop is which and what a combine is for!

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Have a Great Day, Everyone!