At Home in the Huddle 2013

Garbage Day.

64 degrees and hazy at 6:30 a.m.

The YNN Weather Forecast:  

"Scattered Showers and Storms / Still Humid; Cooler Late Week and Weekend

Things look to stay unsettled today courtesy of an approaching cold front. This front will also allow temperatures to back off a bit with highs in the mid to upper 70s.

 The core of the coolest air arrives Friday as temperatures struggle to make their way out of the 50s with the theat for scattered showers.

Luckily, with high pressure building overhead, lingering showers will come to an end setting us up for a nice stretch of weather through the holiday weekend. Highs will be in the 60s for both Saturday and Sunday.  Lots of sunshine is expected for Memorial Day on Monday with temperatures climbing into the upper 60s. 

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William Burgess,  Jr.

1942 - 2013

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Yesterday

The Tuesday night rainfall was undoubtedly welcomed by gardeners and farmers, but - in some cases - there may have been too much of it.  Two mallards were quick to find a newly-formed pond to swim in in a cornfield next to Fuess-Cleary Road.

Black clouds brought more rain yesterday afternoon, but a break in the clouds let enough sunshine through to create a huge rainbow that hung directly over Hanover for quite a while.

For the first time in over forty years,  the weight of the oversized, moisture-laden blossoms on some of my hundred-year-old lilacs have bent the branches to the ground.....

........  and dandelion puffs have been drenched.

The giant "Cucumber Magnolia" in front of the Mack residence on Hanover Road is in full bloom .....

while little yellow wildflowers .......

.......... and "Cow Parsley" lines country roadsides.

Glimpsed between cars:  all of the window boxes and planters at the New York Pizzeria are filled with giant pansies!

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EVENTS

Teen Movie Night

Today at the Library at 6:00 p.m.

Teens! Come watch Beautiful Creatures with your friends on our big screen! You'll also get FREE popcorn! 

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Today at 6:30 p.m.

Pajama Story Hour

Kids ages 3-8 can come to the library in their pj's. This month is all about spring! We'll read some springy books and make a spring craft. 

The Library will be closed on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

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NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY

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 MEMORIAL DAY EVENTS

Waterville: 

Parade begins at 9 a.m. at Putnam Street and proceeds down Main Street to Soldiers and Sailors Monument Park. Lineup for the parade is at 8:30 a.m. A ceremony at the Monument follows the parade and includes the Gettysburg Address and a tribute to veterans.

Deansboro: 

Ceremony at 10:15 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial on Route 315. Parade on Route 12B at 10:30 a.m., with ceremony to follow in the cemetery.

Oriskany Falls: 

The Parade begins at noon to Douglass Park, where a Memorial Day service follows.


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- and watch for Bob VanDenbergh, our Warrior on the Run for the Wounded Warrior Project, who will run, first, to Waterville for the start of the parade, then run to Deansboro, and after that to Oriskany Falls.

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A Reminder:

Scott Freeman (841-4175) 

is the man to contact if you have items to donate to the 

June 8th ROTARY CLUB AUCTION! 

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A Decision:

I will be taking the Summer off!  

  -  at least I'm going to try to. 

After seven years it may not be as easy to change my routine as I think it will be, but I'm really looking forward to taking my early-morning cup of coffee out onto the back porch to sit and listen to the birds, to try to catch up on unfinished writing, drawing and painting, weeding, and even cleaning as well as heading out of town on various treks and travels whenever I feel like it!

I will post June calendars early next week. If YOU have any special Summertime events that you want me to mention, please send the information to me over the weekend.

I'll also post a list of all the "links" that you can use to keep up-to-date on daily events.

In the meantime,

Have a grand weekend, everyone!