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Area events you won't want to miss!

Twin Valley Senior Center's Perennial Plant Sale, Saturday, May 9 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, located on Route 2 across from Tim's Convenience Center in Plainfield. To donate to this cause, please contact Linda @ 454-1263 or Rita @ 454-7750.

Watch for details on the Grace Methodist Church's Annual Lawn Sale on May 23rd in Plainfield.

Spaghetti Dinner & Auction in Cabot . . . Click poster on right to enlarge!

If you missed the Channel 7 news from Lyndon State College this evening (Monday), we'll have a link on home page. It isn't there as I write this, but Fred will have it on tomorrow, for sure. It's about 21 minutes into the newscast, right after the weather and just before a piece on Anthony's Diner in St. Johnsbury. You'll see Tom Dente, president of Joe's Pond Association, presenting the award certificate and check to this year's Ice-Out Contest winner, Ash Desmond, on Friday afternoon at the state fishing access in West Danville. You've already seen our photos - so this is an added bit of news coverage. We thank the Lyndon State crews for doing such a nice job of covering our Ice-Out Contest this year.

Another great day here at the pond. Unusually warm - like summer, really. And tonight we still have our windows open and the air that's wafting in is cool and fresh and way warmer than usual for this time of year. My daffodils have all popped open - things are spring to life almost unfolding as we watch. Every day there are more buds on trees and plants appearing from under the winter mulch of my flower beds. In one spot I have Mayflowers - they come every year, but often have snow still covering some areas of the flower bed where they've established themselves for several years. It's a tangled bed with lots of lilies of the valley, bee balm, and an occasional poppy or Japanese lantern left over from other summers. I long ago gave up sorting out the wild from the cultivated plants, especially after I discovered the Mayflowers. I didn't want to disturb them.