Soggy Saturday

It's 54 degrees and really drippy out there at 8:15. With any luck (and belief in WKTV's forecast) the rain will let up by late afternoon and the Zombies will be able to shamble instead of shlurp!

I don't generally plan on doing a blog post on Saturdays, but this is important!

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ALSO:

SUNDAY MORNING AT 10:00

forty or more members of

the Limestone Creek Hunt Club of Cazenovia will be

Hunting to the Hounds up near Skyline Drive on West Hill.

If you've never seen a real "hunt," it's a grand sight. It's hard to tell where the best views can be had, but the riders will start at the Zombek Farm West of Skyline Drive.

The hounds will be following a "drag" rather than a real fox: this will, hopefully, keep them from heading out across every freshly manured farm field the can find.

Follow Bogusville Hill Road from Route 12B all the way up the hill, cross Skyline Drive.
There will probably be lots of spectator cars creeping along Skyline Drive, watching.

This "alert" came from Mr. Roger Gates (above, in his red jacket - which is really called a Pink, because it was made by Mr. Pink of London! - with friends, in 2006.)

To learn more about the Limestone Creek Hunt Club, click HERE.

Mr. Gates, who is also an excellent story-teller, was at yesterday's full-house gathering of Old-timers at the Library and regaled the group with a particularly fun Hallowe'en story from the 1940s --- I'll pass that along to you later this week!

Thanks, Roger!

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I received an Email from Missy Brouillette, yesterday afternoon, telling me that the library's new sign was in place. On my way, there, I saw this:

That's some serious stuff going on at the Opera House!



As Missy had said, "That's Impressive!"

- with a hop blossom, to boot!

This photo by Jeff Reynolds shows that Yes! the sign is legible from White Street - just what was needed.

(Thanks, both of you!)

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Also in my Email box, a nice letter from Nancy Ayala thanking the blog and also ...........

"........... the folks who share with the rest of us thru the Blog. Whether it's local to semi-local pics or like Glen Carroll (who we refer to as "coach" from our son's days in t-ball) they bless us "arm chair" travelers."

(Thanks, Nancy!)

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Now Glen has travelled westward, and arrived in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday.

He wrote: "Wow Everything is a negotiation! It took us 20 minutes to bargin for a taxi driver. They walked up and told me $50. My Director negotiated the rate down to $19."

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From Wendy Woodward ..........

............ this excellent photograph of a Jack-in-the-Pulpit seed pod.

(This is what Jack looks like in the Spring.)

That's a mere six months away!

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Have a good weekend!