Friday

It's 60.8 degrees, aiming toward hot and humid with rumbles and more!

WKTV's Forecast:

• Friday: Hazy, hot and humid with scattered strong to severe afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Any thunderstorm that develops is capable of producing hail, heavy rain and strong wind gusts. Be sure to stay with wktv.com, the Weather Blog, and NEWSChannel 2 for the very latest on any watches or warnings Friday. High near 90.

• Friday Night: Warm and muggy with showers and thunderstorms ending. Again, some storms could be strong, especially early. Low in the upper 50s.
• Saturday: Becoming mostly sunny, mild and much less humid. High: 75, Low: 47
• Sunday: Mostly sunny and gorgeous High: 76, Low: 51

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Allison and I may be the only two people reading this blog who remember exactly where they were - and what they were doing - just 41 years ago today: we were in Topeka, Kansas, and at about 4:00 in the afternoon we'd taken shelter in the basement of the church from which this photograph of a huge tornadic funnel was taken. Dick stayed up in the parkinglot with all the other men until the noise was so loud he couldn't stand it! Neither we nor our home were "hit," but - in just a few minutes - an entire university and most of the Topeka business district was flattened.

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Something's going on at the Macholds' on West Bacon Street: looks like a new porch!

Out on Hanover Road, Miles Cornish has been clearing some dense brush and ending up with a lovely, open grove.

There are some nice roadside bouquets of "Dame's Rocket" or "Sweet Rocket" or "Wild Phlox" out in the countryside. (It's not really phlox, but a variety of mustard!)

I forgot to take my camera with my when I went to Clinton, but - next to Route 12B - there are two fields of Wild Mustard that are just this bright and can even be seen from the top of Grant Hill.

There's alot going on this weekend!

Check the Community Calendar for some interesting events at the Rogers Center in Sherburne, the Earlville Opera House, at the Augusta-Vernon Center Preesbuyterian Church as well as in Waterville!

The WCS Marching Band will be in Dolgeville, tomorrow, marching in the Violet Festival Parade. Other activities planned include music entertainment, art exhibits, arts and crafts show, fireworks, Eastern Regional Draft Horse Fun Day, 5K Run for the Violets, Children's Run, poetry contest and Violet Festival Idol contest, Flower the Clown, village-wide garage sales and children's coaster derby.

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It's getting wonderfully exciting and hectic, here in the Hollow: company coming for "Dick's Damned Fine Party" on Sunday afternoon. Blogging will become unpredictable, I imagine - erratic at best! But we intend to have a Damned Fine Weekend and hope that you will, too!