Tuesday

BIG TRASH DAY!

It's 31.3 degrees and starry clear.

(As soon as it got light I realized that
there was FROST on the lawn!)

WKTV predicts that "after a chilly start to Tuesday, we expect full sunshine to get to work and warm things up, with highs in the low 60s expected. Another chilly night will follow suit Tuesday night, but it will not be nearly as cold as tonight. Wednesday should be a nice day mostly, but some high clouds should race in here by mid to late afternoon ahead of a weak weather system. This will generate some showers on Wednesday night and plenty of clouds for Thursday. We may see some afternoon sunshine, but we're not too optimistic on that right now."

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Thank You!

I think it must have become a game, yesterday:

"get the "hit counter" over the 100,000 mark!"

I set the meter up on January 26th - 8 months
and 10 days ago.

A rough average, dividing 100,000 by 250 days
equals 400 hits a day.

(More, actually, because I haven't done a seven-days-a-week blog for quite a while.
Anyhow - I may as well keep going!)


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Barton Avenue

More lovely foliage .............

Sally Road

........... and more Hallowe'en decorations.

An "ocean" of soybeans, on Bogan Road.

Last Fall, I asked Mr. Fredolyn Zweifel where all of the soy was being shipped. He said that, as far as he knew, just about all of it would stay right on the farms where it was grown. "It needs to be roasted or the oil otherwise extruded," he said, "before it can be used." Some of it is probably taken to Ed Gale's Feed Mill for roasting, but Fredolyn also told me that there were "travelling" roasters that would come right to the farm and do the job. I didn't ask, because it sounds so stupid, but ....... I guess I should know that the roasted soy gets mixed in with dried corn and other good stuff and fed to our fine local cattle all Winter long.

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A number of people have commented on the series of "before & after" photographs that Jeff Reynolds arranged on the hallway gallery wall at the Library.

Click the images to enlarge - or go and see the pictures for yourself! - and you'll agree:

"It's hard to remember how really bad Waterville looked!"

"What a mess we went through! But it sure was worth it!"

(The display will remain in place until the 14th.)

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FOR THE RECORD
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Advertising to the contrary,

The Brothertown Music Boosters

do NOT plan on having a

Bottle Drive next Saturday!

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Have a Great Day, Everyone!