Thursday

31.6 degrees with little touches of white!

It's Garbage Day!

• Thursday: Morning flurries, followed by a mix of sun and clouds. Still chilly. High in the low 40s.
• Thursday Night: Partly cloudy to mostly clear and cold. Low in the low to mid 20s, but colder on the Tug Hill and Adirondacks.
• Friday: A mix of sun and clouds with sprinkles or flurries possible later in the day. High: 46, Low: 26

Our first snow!

Wet and blowy ...........


but cozy in the Library .......


where a young fellow peered out the window at the short-lived storm.

Earlier in the day, I'd been in Hanover and seen this view.

The Grant Hill Road pond has plenty of water in it, now, but no ducks or geese.

The soy field are bare, now. This picture was a taken a week or so ago - when it was DRY! - of soy being harvested behind the Library.

I happened to see Mr. F. Zweifel at the polling place, on Tuesday, and asked where all of the soy was being shipped. He said that, as far as he knew, just about all of it would stay right on the farms where it was grown. "It needs to be roasted or the oil otherwise extruded," he said, "before it can be used." Some of it is probably taken to Ed Gale's Feed Mill for roasting, but Fredolyn also told me that there were "travelling" roasters that would come right to the farm and do the job. I didn't ask, because it sounds so stupid, but ....... I guess I should know that the roasted soy gets mixed in with dried corn and other good stuff and fed to our fine local cattle all Winter.

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I've invented a HUGE history-type project for myself that is taking me to several places in the "Archives." If you're going to have another cup of coffee, this morning, you might enjoy spending those few minutes "seeing" what Waterville was like two-hundred years ago!

Have a Great Day!