Monday

It's 56 degrees and

Garbage Day, again!

The WKTV Weather Forecast calls for pleasantly, typically, summery weather:

• Monday: Partly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 80
• Monday night: Partly cloudy. Low 59
• Tuesday: Partly sunny. Chance of a shower or thunderstorm. High 83 Low 60

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This is going to be just a quick start-up to the day: just enough to say that yesterday was magnificent, from morning 'til night, and that I'll post more later on.

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We started the day early:
Bill Beldan and Dick's sister, Sylvia, and and their daughter, Kathryn McCarraher, with me up at The Root Glen, at Hamilton College.

I arrived at "Michael's Fine Food & Spirits" just a few minutes before 3:00, and everything was ready: even a special sign on the blackboard and - everywhere - vases (mostly "mason jars") filled with wild flowers that had all been picked by Sarah Sexton and Cathy Burbules.

The display of food was just like a picture!

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And then people started coming and I put my camera down and that was that!
I know that there were others taking photographs -- perhaps someone will E-mail me a few to post!

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Not only were Dick's sister and brother-in-law and niece there along with our daughter Allison and her husband, Rick, and our grandson Iain, but also Rick's parents, Helen and Victor Methe from Berne, New York. Phillip and Jennifer Sexton and their children came from Esperance; several members of "Tapestry, the All-centuries Singers" were there; Stanley Dziekonski came from Clinton and a hundred or more from the Waterville Community including Mark and Kathryn LcLane of "Sanger Hill" who had a long conversation with Richard S. Woodman about William Cary Sanger, Jr. Many wore red baseball caps - Patty Louise had even added a sign reading "Well, Why Not?" It was crowded; it was loud; it was happy! and - it was just what Dick would have liked:

A Damn Fine Party

and everyone had a really good time!

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Thank You!