It's Garbage Day!
It's 56 degrees; fine sleeping weather!
(And that will explain both the tardiness and brevity of this posting!)
It's 56 degrees; fine sleeping weather!
(And that will explain both the tardiness and brevity of this posting!)
- Thursday: Partly sunny. High 76
- Thursday night: Mostly clear. Low 55
- Friday: Partly sunny with a chance for a shower or storm. High 75 Low 56
There was a very sparse gathering in the Park, yesterday, for Farmers Market. Perhaps both vendors and shoppers had been scared off by predictions of strong afternoon storms - which never came.
Edie Eastman, who lives on Route 315, wrote to say that the fields behind her house are planted to RYE.
I had a telephone call from Sally Zweifel who wanted to "confess!"
For years, of course, she has planted little flowerbeds at the four corners of the Hanover-Shanley Road intersection. But she wanted everyone to know that this year her new neighbors in the big white house - Sharron and Myron Mosher - had taken it upon themselves to plant their corner. She wanted to make sure that they - not she - got the credit for it!
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Karin and Heath Zwahlen get credit for this ......
.... but Mother Nature probably planted these hollyhocks on Brouillette Road all by herself!
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Now: about Cows in the Countryside.
("Bovine Basics" for newcomers like me.)
Most of the dairy cattle raised around here are the black and white HOLSTEIN .....
... with an occasional JERSEY ....
... or BROWN SWISS.
Steve Cleary's "brown cows" are HERFORDS - beef cattle.
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I had a telephone call from Sally Zweifel who wanted to "confess!"
For years, of course, she has planted little flowerbeds at the four corners of the Hanover-Shanley Road intersection. But she wanted everyone to know that this year her new neighbors in the big white house - Sharron and Myron Mosher - had taken it upon themselves to plant their corner. She wanted to make sure that they - not she - got the credit for it!
*****
Karin and Heath Zwahlen get credit for this ......
.... but Mother Nature probably planted these hollyhocks on Brouillette Road all by herself!
******************
Now: about Cows in the Countryside.
("Bovine Basics" for newcomers like me.)
Most of the dairy cattle raised around here are the black and white HOLSTEIN .....
... with an occasional JERSEY ....
... or BROWN SWISS.
Steve Cleary's "brown cows" are HERFORDS - beef cattle.
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And to make sure that the grains aren't wasted and cattle never hungry ......
Louis Gale & Son, Richer Feeds and Sangerfield Feed are located nearby.
Louis Gale & Son, Richer Feeds and Sangerfield Feed are located nearby.
