Friday

At 8:30 ----- both a phone call and an Email to say that the dog was safe at home!

Are you missing a St. Bernard?

at 7:30 A.M. he was sitting in the back of a pickup truck at 169 Madison Street!!

(Seems he followed someone home from the Park.)


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It's 61 degrees, dark and muggy.

The forecast from WKTV: "Hit or miss showers will be the theme here over the next several days, with seasonable temperatures.

A cold front will slowly pass through the region early this morning. While the majority of severe weather is expected to be well south and east of the area, a few pop up showers and thunderstorms are possible at any point today. Most of the day will be dry, with a mix of sunshine and clouds. High temperatures expected in the upper 70s to low 80s. It will feel less humid than yesterday as well.

Mostly cloudy tonight with hit or miss showers and sprinkles. Overnight lows near 60.

Continued unsettled weather into the weekend. An area of low pressure will dive in from the north, bringing with it scattered showers. It will be in no hurry to leave either. Both Saturday and Sunday, expect a mix of sunshine and clouds, with hit or miss showers. High temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s.

Another cold front is expected to arrive on Sunday night, increasing the threat for more showers and thunderstorms. Yet another area of low pressure will advance from the west early next week, increasing the threat for showers and thunderstorms. This storm will stall just to our west, and is likely to give us cooler weather with scattered showers into next week."

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Peter Bridge recognized yesterday's picture of the super-thorny wild roses and sent me this nice Email:

"RE: 'Multi-flora roses'
It was sometime in the late 40's when Norm Eckerson, a fellow New Jersey ex-patriot and a Craigfoot Hill neighbor, suggested to my father that there was a better way to keep cows from wandering (literally) through barbed wire fences than perpetual maintenance of those fences and we both decided to experiment with what became known to us as multi-flora roses. I don't know where Norm planted his but we planted ours between a meadow and a pasture as an experiment of sorts atop the hill behind the barns. Good thing we didn't remove the fences. At first we watched them closely but became bored when we realized that where we had planted maybe 50 bushes, there were only about 10 growing, none contiguously. And not too vigorously at that! So much for floral fencing. Maintaining barbed wire fences was a nettlesome job most farmers saved for rainy days in springtime and not uncommon emergencies anytime. It appears from your description that these roses can and do flourish but only where they choose to. Ours never became fences and I do not remember any of them earning the appellation "multi-flora."

Thanks, Peter - I liked reading that! Coincidentally ---- I took the photograph of the trailing runners very close to the old Eckerson place on the road to the Fish & Game Club!

Now HERE's a "fence" of roses - decorative only - in front of Walt and Joanna Johnston's on Sanger Hill Road.

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(Click for explosion of color!)

We've had a mixture of weather and Fr. Tom's flowers have thrived in it!

The Rectory Hop Yard is doing well, too!

Please click on the image for details about The Wall, when and where you can visit it.

HERE, too, is a link to more pictures of The Moving Wall.


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This looks inviting!

Catalpas are blooming!

I wonder if little girls ever string fallen blossoms to make necklaces
the way they did 70 years ago!


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The Moons on Madison Street definitely need a "Geese Crossing" sign!

On the Marshall Trail, it's Beavers vs. ATVs: who will win?

FOR THE RECORD

Gasoline is staying the same: $2.79.9

The new "Informational Kiosk" will NOT be going here:

that's all the information that I have!


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It's Graduation time, and to all of you who are "graduating,"
I send my congratulations, best wishes, and hopes that whether or not you're ever given more pieces of paper or "sheepskin," you'll never let the learning stop.

That's what makes life fun!

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In yesterday Email, from Jim Beha:

"Krysta Beha, daughter of James and Deborah Beha of Marcy, and Grand daughter of Joseph and Leonie Beha of Waterville, received the Triple "C" Award, as she joined the new freshman class at Whitesboro senior high school, on June 24. Krysta is a member of National Junior Honor Society, girls modified basketball, lacross and field hockey teams, along with her many other activities."

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Have a Good Weekend, Everyone!