Thursday Morning!

It's GARBAGE DAY!!

11.5 degrees, with a new coverlet of sparkly snow, that Elinor Wylie might have described as "White Lace."



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The Accuweather forecast calls for snow showers off and on throughout the day, with some periods of sunshine but no warmth, to speak of. Temperatures probably won't reach the 20-degree mark.

Tonight it's going to be COLD:
REALLY, REALLY SEVERELY,
SERIOUSLY
COLD!!

From the WKTV NEWS Weather Room:

Tonight: Bitterly cold with a few flurries or snow showers. More persistant lake snow south and west of Utica with perhaps 2"-4" of accumulation. Breezy with dangerous wind chills. Lows of 5 to 10 below 0 in Utica, but as low as -20 across the North Country.

Friday: Sun and clouds with a few snow showers. Still bitterly cold. High: 7, Low: 0

Saturday: A chance of light snow. High: 25, Low: 11

Wint'ry view, yesterday morning.

Yesterday afternoon the temperature rose to 35 degrees and the sun was definitely Springlike!
Out on Madison Street, snowmobile tracks looked fresh, and - in town - a bicyclist enjoyed a ride!

I never did find the old Waterville Times photographs, but they'll surface, some time when I'm not looking for them, I'm sure!


I DID find the electricians, however, and new lamp posts now reach Babbott Avenue on both sides of Main Street.

Driving to Sangerfield and back becomes a whole new experience:

But if you try this yourself, you may be as frustrated as I have been -
we have SO MANY signs - street signs, speed signs, pedestrian crossing signs - that it's sometimes hard to just see the precisely lined-up lamp posts!

The Park, where there are seven lamp posts, seems to be the only really (almost) signless space in the village.