Wednesday

It's Recyclables Day!

It's 59 degrees and gray, but not raining.

We certainly did get some rain! It came in a deluge, at around 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, announced by authoritative thunder, plenty of lightning and blown sideways by fierce gusts of wind. A second storm passed through the area an hour or so later and, after that, a more gentle rain fell for several hours. The Waterville Women's Club annual Picnic and Auction at the Town Park in Deansboro was probably moved into the Town Hall; Can & Clams at the Legion may not have actually been served out on the deck, but - rather - inside, and - perhaps Joe Falk's new swimming pool is full!

Although the lights flickered a few times and the power went off just long enough to set microwave, coffeepot and clocks blinking, we didn't have the extended outage that the Observer-Dispatch refers to in this article: Power Restored to Most of the Mohawk Valley.

Our forecast for today, from WKTV:

• Wednesdsay: Morning clouds and scattered showers giving way to partly sunny skies by afternoon. Cooler and less humid. High 74
• Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy and cool. Low 53
• Thursday: Partly sunny with scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 74 Low 52

The Weather Channel.

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Also in this morning's O-D, this article - of interest to all of us: County to Assist in Demolition Costs.
According to a blog reader who was at the Monday evening Village Board Meeting, there were about thirty people in attendance and a resolution was passed calling on the Municipality to to seek a low bidder to raze the structure and remove the debris. The cost is estimated to be around $160,000.

(Apparently the word "raze" is new to some people - and why shouldn't it be? It doesn't get used that often and, really, means the exact opposite of what it sounds like: "raise" or "lift." The definition of "to raze" is ---- "to tear down; to level to the ground" and that certainly is something else!)

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Another word - or phrase - that's seldom-used, nowadays, is "laying up" --- and that's what Mr. Walt Stephenson has been doing: laying up a fine stone wall next to his residence on Osborn Avenue.

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Throughout the village, "tubs" planted be members of the Waterville Garden Club are bright and the hanging baskets suspended from hooks on telephone poles are thriving! (The DPW must be giving them special attention!)

Catalpa trees are in bloom: there are three that I always watch: one on Route 20 West of the old Mayflower Motel; one on Gridley-Paige Road and one near California Road on Route 315.

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Main Dtreet, a year ago today!

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To learn alot more about BASEBALL, be sure to attend this evening's meeting of the Waterville Historical Society. Mr. Don Brown will be the speaker!