Monday

It's Garbage Day!

34.4 degrees, brisk but sunny.

WKTV predicts that: "Monday will start off with mostly sunny skies but sunshine will fade behind clouds that are out ahead of our next storm system. Clouds and showers move in by the evening and into the overnight. Temperatures will warm up a little bit with highs will return to the 60s. Unsettled weather continues for the middle of the week as a cold front stalls to our south, giving us a chance of showers and unseasonably cool temperatures."

One flowerbed that survived last night's chill was at the Aldridges' on Madison Street.

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Yesterday turned out to be a fine day to be outdoors!

A member of the Waterville Garden Club reported that their Annual Sale was "the best ever!"


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Jim Cieslak got a pretty good look at a pileated woodpecker at work on W. Bacon Street!

(Click the lower image for more info!)

There's a whole "pond" of
"Ragged Robin" - Lychnis -
next to Loomis Road, south
of Sangerfield.

Ann Sally and Elfie Goedecker have fine samplings of Primula japonica - Candelabra Primrose - like those in the Primrose Basin of The Root Glen (above.)

Soon to be gone!

The owners will be having the structure taken down by Zielinski Asphalt and have donated the building to the Fire Department for training exercises.

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VILLAGE BOARD MEETING

Tonight at 7:00 at the Municipal Hall

Blog-readers have suggested these locations as possible sites for the new Informational Kiosk.

Near the sign in the Post Office/Dollar General parking lot.

On the corner at the Fire House.

On the Barton Ave. side of Municipal Hall.

Near the Municipal Hall parking lot.

At the point of the Park.

In the Park, between the watering trough
and bandstand.

Bring YOUR ideas to tonight's meeting!


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The "Old Folks' Story Swap" at the Library, last Friday morning,
was a huge success!

Reminiscences included anecdotes about a clever brick-layer who imbedded a pane of glass at the top of a new chimney if he hadn't been paid, and only broke it after smoke had filled the house and money was in his hand;

recollections of William Cary Sanger, Jr., Bobby Lawson and Truman Jones by those who knew them and also of the Tyler family and Hilda Barton;

stories of the great fires of 1929 and 1982, when buildings on Main Street were destroyed;

Memorial Day gatherings at the "Ye Olde American" hotel and the excitement of having the Circus come to town.


Thanks to Director Jeff Reynolds and his assistant, Jillian Getman, more such gatherings will be taking place at the Library on alternate Fridays throughout the next several weeks.

If you have stories to tell, join us!

It became obvious, right away, that a method of making digital recordings of these events must be worked out so that stories can be saved and shared with younger generations!

Can any blog-readers suggest a particular piece/brand of equipment for that?

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FOR THE RECORD

Have a great day, everyone!



Remember: tomorrow is Big Trash!