At Home in the Huddle 2: Friday

It's 62 degrees and it's been raining - not too hard, but maybe just right - for quite a while.

If you're a sky-watcher and were hoping for an early-morning look at the "Persieds" you were certainly out of luck: perhaps tomorrow!

Today: Morning rain, tapering to showers by the afternoon. Clouds, perhaps some sun, damp and cool, Temperatures in the upper 60s to around 70.
Tonight: Partly cloudy with areas of fog. Low in the mid 50s.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Pleasant. High: 82, Low: 57

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The O.E.S. Rummage-Bake Sale starts at 9:00 today
at the Pleasant Valley Grange!

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TOMORROW

at the

WATERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Summer Carnival

Noon - 3 p.m.,
Waterville Public Library, 206 White St., Waterville.

Games, prizes, food, crafts, face painting,
performance by The Seano's Circus A-Z and more.

Admission and performances are free. 841-4651.

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Early yesterday - a huge UPS truck was making deliveries to the future "Subway" sandwich shop on Main Street!

There was some roadwork going on just this side of Deansboro causing the need for a stretch of single-lane traffic. I just happened to be in the right spot to watch while this maroon minivan's driver decided that regardless of oncoming truck-traffic and a fully-visible STOP sign - she (that's right - "she") was going to go ahead, anyhow!! The flag girl caught sight of her; whirled around and it looked as if some major shouting produced a shift into reverse. It didn't end there! When the minivan reached the end of the controlled traffic, the flagman at that position stopped her for an additional "talking to."

By afternoon, the blacktopping crew had moved to the Buell Avenue Hill. All vehicles seemed to be where they were supposed to be.

Out on Hanover Road, I was going to take a picture of the rows of corn, looking just like cordeuroy, I thought, when a huge piece of agricultural equipment came in to view, and I started trying to figure out what it was doing. Fortunately, John Brouillette pulled up and got out of his car and took time to explain that it was a "combine," and it was doing what used to be called "threshing" - here, all in one procedure, oats were being cut; the oats themselves sorted and saved and the straw left in windrows on the ground to dry in the sun. (Thanks, John!)