Monday morning

It's Garbage Day!

19.6 degrees and aiming upwards:

Today: Partly sunny. High: 45

Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Low 28

Tuesday: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. High: 48 Low: 32

Woodman Pond, outside of Hamilton, is still covered with ice.

There is lots of open water in the Oriskany, north of Lyon's Mills, but this pair of Canada Geese seem to enjoy strolling on the ice.

Closer to Oriskany Falls, I slowed down at a favorite fishing spot and thought: "Only three weeks 'til Trout Season!"

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Day-before-yesterday Katie Peck wrote: "My Mom ALWAYS called it 'Daniel's Nose!' " and recalled reading the name Daniel on the plaque at the corner of route 315 and Gridley-Paige Road.

Yesterday she climbed over and through the snow to read the plaque and wrote: "The first forge was erected here in 1801. To manufacture iron from Ore. Sherman Daniels and son Charles ran a forge foundry and trip hammer shop here about 1850. They collected large quantities of scrap steel which they reduced into what was known as a loop. These loops were sold to the Remingtons in Ilion and were used to make gun barrels ."



"I suspect the curve was named for the Daniels, but I'll leave that up to history as it will be truly difficult to be sure when so many of us have heard so many different names BUT that's what makes folklore so exciting, interesting and intriging! I love it!"

Thanks loads, Katie!

I've found a couple of articles about the Forge and commemorative plaque in "Echoes of Forge Hollow," by Dorothy McConnell and - later today - will copy them for all of you to read.