Thursday

It's Garbage Day, again!

67 degrees; gray.

(In Hanover.)

Yesterday started out hot and hazy ......

(On Daytonville Road.)

....... and farmers rushed to get their hay in before it rained.

It thundered and grumbled and the sky was dark. Everyone waited. Someone phoned from Utica to say it was "pouring!" Another person, arriving from Sherburne, said he'd driven through a "deluge." WKTV NewsChannel2 reports that "Humid Conditions Give Way to Severe Weather." And in Waterville? Nothing but one brief power outage that set clocks and coffeepots blinking. This morning it's lowery - or loury - meaning "overcast" and/or "threatening" - and I really do hope that the WKTV forecast is right:

• Thursday: Morning clouds, showers and thunderstorms giving way to breaks of sun by afternoon. High 71
• Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Low 51
• Friday: Mix of sun and clouds. Cool. High 73 Low 50

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Yesterday was one of those days when I needed to stay at home all afternoon and evening and wait for the annual furnace-cleaning visit and then some very important 'phone calls and so I was only out and around in the morning, but in the Observer-Dispatch there's an interview with Army Pvt. Steven Smith for whom a welcome home party was held last night at the Waterville American Legion. I also received word, last evening, that Ann Stillman's Ordination was "just grand!" and was very well-attended.

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At about 8:30, yesterday morning, an excited resident of Sanger Avenue telephoned me to say that there were flags on the telephone poles "all the way to CVS!" and Pauline Barnes sent E-mail saying, "You will probably note they are installing flags on electric light polls on Sanger Ave. this morning. Three in view of my house, (and I) assume there are many more."

It's a grand sight!

But now there's a problem:


Stafford Avenue looks naked!

If all of the residents displayed flags that would help.

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