Thursday - add on

Yes! There are MANY more flags flying outside of residences and businesses, today, than there usually are!

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I've just received a note from Dee McManus Wines asking for prayers for Lynn "Brownie" Browne of E. Bacon Street. He is a patient at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, and is very ill, indeed.

9/11


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It's Garbage Day!

41.5 and starry-clear.

From WKTV: "Grab the light jacket this morning because it is chilly outside. Temperatures have fallen into the low 40s and upper 30s. Only the coldest spots this morning may see some patchy frost, but the vast majority of the viewing area will not. Fog will develop this morning as well. By the afternoon, temperatures will warm nicely to around 70 as winds switch into the southwest. As high pressure departs the region, a storm system in the midwest will attempt to organize and take aim towards the northeast.
Expect clouds to slowly build in to the region late today and tonight. Clouds will thicken through tomorrow afternoon, but we stay dry until then. "

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I don't know where the Summer's gone, but - suddenly - hydrangeas are tinged with pink ..


.......... and elderberries are getting ripe.

(Click the image for recipes for everything from jams and jellies to elderberry ice cream and, of course, wine!)

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New, but old-fashioned, "fish scale" shingles - a perfect touch on the Art White residence on White Street!


Louie Langone, the superintendent of the Sewage Treatment Plant, read Dave Desany's tribute to Arnold Pughe's Gas Station on yesterday's blog post and sent this picture.

"Thought you might like this picture of Arnold's Shell gas station, The picture was taken in the late 70"s early 80"s, note the gas price, not the same as the ones you have been showing. People used to come in and ask for $5.00 worth and get around 13 gallons of gas. The middle red pump was something new, no-lead gasoline, nobody ever bought that stuff."

Thanks, Louie!

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Also in yesterday's mail was this wonderful picture, sent to me by Shirley Bynum Smith, who wrote:

"The second week of August I was in Waterville for a whirlwind few days, along with my daughter Kimberly, her two little girls (Lauren and Rachel), my daughter Jill and her daughter Hannah. The "big girls" loved once again visiting with the cousins from their growing-up years and seeing the "little girls" playing with their cousins' children who are the same ages. That was a happy week, headquartered at my mom's house in Hanover, across the road from Karl and Janice's (the girls were ecstatic about the cows, newborn calves, horse, donkey, llama, dogs, cats, and so on!). Behind Mom's house was Furby, John and Tina's horse, and Lauren (she calls herself The Horse Girl) spent as much time as she could feeding him apples and lawn cuttings.

My children and my sister Esther's children have always called my mom, Hedwig (Hedy) Eisenhut, by the Swiss-German diminutive of Grossmutti, and our grandchildren do the same. I've attached a four-generation photo of Grossmutti and the girls descended from the union of Ernest and Hedwig Eisenhut. The picture was taken at Esther's Sheldrake house on Cayuga Lake. Only Kelley, Esther's second daughter, was missing. In the photo with Grossmutti are my sister Esther and me; our daughters Joni, Kimberly and Jill; and their daughters Terra, Lauren, Rachel and Hannah. Our being together that day is a memory we treasure.

Again --- Thank You, Shirley!

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I was digging in the "archives," again - in my computer - organizing photographs of Hop Pickers .........

............... and found this (above) with a handwritten label that reads: August 1894. Bill Condon's hop yard on Canning Factory Road. (Click to enlarge!)



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LOOKING AHEAD

The Weather Channel's Long Range Forecast
calls for
mostly-sunny skies
with a high temperature of 65 degrees
and 20% chance of precipitation
on Saturday the 20th!

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Have a Great Day, Everyone!