We were told by the weather people we'd have a frosty night, but nobody told us we'd have a snow storm! I left home around 5:30 to go to a meeting in Cabot, and the wind was howling. I should have gone out with my new handy-dandy anemometer, but I didn't want to be late for my meeting. On the way to Cabot there were tree branches and leaves in the road and just past Chef Woody's, a big poplar across the road. I was able to ease by and continue on my way. We had very heavy rain, and the temperature was dropping.

When I left the meeting at around 8:30, my car registered the temperature as 40 degrees. As soon as I went up the first hill, the temperature began to slip downward and right after turning off the paved road onto Cabot Plains Road, I began to see snow on the windshield. Then my car flashed a "possible road icing" warning! By the time I reached the cemetery, my car thermometer was reading 33 degrees and there was snow along the sides of the road and sticking to the grass in the fields. (See pictures above.) I stopped to take pictures, and then realized there was a sunset behind me! Beautiful. The picture doesn't do it justice, but it was really spectacular. It looked as if there was a giant fire ball behind the mountains. All the while, the wind was whipping and it was snowing! I think Cabot Plain sometimes rivals Mt. Washington for wild, unusual weather.

I was glad to get home. Fred and I covered our vegetable garden with tarps, but I doubt that will do much good. We already had pots over the tomato plants, but even with the addition of the tarp we may not save them. I expect this is a bad time for the apple trees to have a frost - most are just beginning to bloom, and pretty vulnerable. Time will tell.

I had an e-mail message from Pam Hebert, sent at 5:30 p.m. - she said:

Fella, Joe and I just beached a float. It had broken loose and was drifting. We brought it to Mike Calevro's. So, if anyone is missing their float you can find it there. Wild !!!


I imagine there will be lots of things floating free after that gale tonight. At the meeting yesterday, Andy Rudin said he had some strange bolted-together beam thing made of pressure treated wood float to his dock and he's anxious for someone to claim it. Andy is on Old Homestead Road. Mike Calevro is on Barre Avenue.

Good Morning!
Another soggy one so far. The sun has broken through once or twice, but now we have a steady rain and it's about 57 degrees. Perhaps the day will improve later.

I have some pictures Fred took at the Joe's Pond Association Spring Meeting yesterday morning. Here's a slide show for you:Spring Meeting

The meeting was small yesterday, but productive. Looks like we'll have another great summer of fun activities and useful projects to keep our lake healthy and beautiful.

We've been noticing activity across the valley on Davidson Drive. Fred got this picture, using lots of zoom. Looks like road work - but then we're wondering if there will be a house there soon. There is already a camp high on the hill - and what a wonderful view from there! That hillside has a great view across to Cabot Plain, as well as down the lake. We go up periodically just to get a different perspective on where we live. It's fun to look across FROM the view we see daily instead of AT it.

The sun is trying to burn through the clouds, so perhaps we'll have a decent day after all. The annual meeting at the Cabot Historical Society is this evening - a pot luck supper at 5 o'clock and meeting at 5:30. This year it's at the Main Street building, so we expect there will be a pretty good attendance. I'll be talking about the work I've been doing this winter and the Blodgett book and other projects, so I'm hoping we may be able to stir some interest in donating journals, photographs, diaries and other family memorabilia, or at least get people started on identifying family photos and perhaps even writing their family history, as Rev. Blodgett did.

Now back to work - I'm due at the historical society building at 11 o'clock to help set up.

Why, Why, Why?

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are almost dead?

---

Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they already know there is not enough money?

---

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars; but have to check when you say the paint is still wet?

---

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

---

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

---

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

---

Whose idea was it to put an 'S' in the word 'lisp'?

---

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

---

Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?

---

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

---

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

---

Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

---

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?

---

How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?

---

When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, 'It's all right?' Well, it isn't all right, so why don't we say, 'That really hurt, why don't you watch where you're going?'

---

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?

---

In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?

---

How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

---

And my FAVORITE.......

The statistics on sanity is that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness.

Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you..

---

~~~Now send this on to your friends and make them smile too!~~~

****A day without a smile is like a day without sunshine!****

WARNING!

I think I may have posted something about this a few months ago, or at least something similar, however, it's worth posting again. Should you receive an e-mail that is supposedly from UPS or another carrier saying they were unable to deliver a parcel to you and it has an attachment with information on how to receive it, beware. Don't open the attachment as it probably has a virus. Here's what "Fact or Fiction" has to say:

Email From UPS or Fedex says You've Got a Shipment That Can't Be Delivered-Virus!

Summary of the eRumor: The email appears to come from United Parcel Service (UPS) or from Fedex. It says that a shipment could not be delivered and directs you to an attachment that allegedly contains the waybill so that you can arrange to receive or to pick up the shipment.

The Truth: According to UPS, this email, which began circulating in July, 2008, contains a virus. It was not sent by UPS. UPS advises not opening the attachment. The company said it may send email notifications on occasion, but that they rarely include attachments. If you receive an email from UPS and you're not sure it is authentic, you are encouraged to email customerservice@ups.com. Or call UPS to verify the existence of any undelivered shipments.

Rain recorded this morning, 9 a.m.: 0.90"

*****

U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders will hold a Town Meeting on The Economy
Saturday, May 30, 2009
6:00 P.M.
Hazen Union School, 126 Hazen Union Drive, Hardwick, Vermont
Light dinner at 6:00 P.M.
Meeting begins at 6:30 P.M.
RSVP to Sen. Sanders' office, (800) 339-9834
or visit website: www.sanders.senate.gov

Topics for discussion:
Credit card interest rates
Jobs
Health Care
Foreclosures and Bankruptcy
Affordable Higher Education

Precipitation report this morning, 9 a.m.: 0.55" This is my rain gauge - looks like a bottle mounted on a post, but it's really more than that. There is a small tube in the center that you can see if you enlarge the photo, and that is calibrated in hundredths and holds exactly 1 inch of precipitation; the larger tube holds any overflow, which would also be measured.

I had an interesting observation from Nolan Doesken, a CoCoRaHS coordinator at the University of Colorado. He writes:

I just wanted to bring to your attention the curious weather pattern of the past week.  A storm system that doused Florida and abruptly and convincingly ended their dry season (many, many inches of rain in some areas -- and the daily tropical thundershowers have been erupting ever
since) drifted towards the northwest and ended up heading all the way
west to Oklahoma.  This is opposite to the normal storm movement for May
(usually moving from west to east).  At the same time, in our part of
the country, a late-summer like "monsoonal flow" brought moisture up
across old Mexico bringing several days of rain and localized intense
downpours to AZ, NM, UT and Colorado.  1-3" rains fell in many areas out
here.  If you like cool, fragrant damp weather, it was awesome.  If you
like sunny, dry Memorial Day Weekend camping weather, it was the pits.
But so it goes.  For a climatologist like me, it was fascinating!

*****

We went to St. Johnsbury this morning. We left in the fog, and had rain on the way, but it was hardly raining by the time we got there. We saw daughter-in-law, Theresa, at White Market. We usually bump into her there. She grocery shops on Thursdays, too. She said she and Bob took their new tandem bike out for a spin recently. They both have mountain bikes, but wanted to try something tamer, I guess. She said there is a trail in the St. Albans area they want to try this fall. It is paved and is about 50 miles long. Sounds like a nice trip.

We'll be putting some new events on our Local Events Schedule (find it under "Other" on the home page menu). Some interesting things going on in Cabot this summer. I haven't had any requests to list new events from either Walden or Danville, but there are some on-going events listed. We'll keep you posted about anything new that comes to us.

Sunday is our annual meeting at the Cabot Historical Society building in Cabot. There is a pot luck dinner at 5 p.m. and a business meeting at about 5:30. We'll be talking about the books we've published this winter, The Blodgett Papers, and a reproduction of a small book of poetry called Vermont Country Verse, originally published in 1962 by the Cabot Poetry Society. We will also have many photographs of Cabot people and places we're hoping to identify. One such photo is the one I displayed here about a week ago of two men high on a partially built round barn. Tom Morgan wrote pointing out the quarry in the background, and that would be Woodbury quarry; then today as I was going through other old photos to get ready for Sunday, I enlarged one of the pictures I've looked at dozens of times and spotted what was unmistakably a round barn on West Hill. I called Walt Bothfeld and he confirmed there was a round barn on the farm where he now lives. A man by the name of Howard Tassie had it built, and years later apparently torched it. Walt said Tassie spent a couple years in jail. I'd never heard that story, but I'll be on the lookout for an account of that in some of the old newspapers I'm going through. I'm certain it'll show up. Now if I can locate someone who can identify the two men working on the barn. That shouldn't be too difficult.

I'm in the process of ordering the Ice-Out tickets for the 2010 contest. We should have them ready at our annual meeting on July 4 so JPA members can pick them up there.

*****

United Church of Cabot

2 Common Way, P.O. Box 127

Cabot, Vermont 05647

Phone: 802-563-2278

Special Pentecost Outdoor Service

This Sunday, May 31^st at 8 AM, Rev. William Cobb of the Cabot United Church will lead a special service at the Cabot Plains Cemetery to celebrate the coming of the Spirit of Holy Truth. The service is a logical follow through to the Church’s traditional Easter Sunday sunrise service and will explore the nature of the helper who Christ calls “The Spirit of Truth”.

A continental breakfast at the church at 8:45 follows the service. All are welcome! Rain or shine.

We've had a rainy day today, and the good news is - we didn't get snow! I think it's supposed to warm up a bit now we've had a couple of frosty nights, right after I got some of my garden planted, but even though it warmed up into the 40's, with the rain it still feels pretty cool. A good time to get inside work done, or just sit by the fire and read a book.

I was working outside yesterday and our cat, Woody, was feeling frisky. He likes to ride in the wheelbarrow, but when I don't have that out, he plays a stalking game only he understands. He will rush by me from behind when I have no idea he's in the vicinity and I admit I've been known to cuss at him from time to time for leaping past me out of nowhere. I've learned he's a menace in the garden if I'm pulling weeds. He lies in wait and then pounces when I pull a weed out of the ground, claws out, sometimes connecting with my fingers. He does not play gently. Besides that, he rolls in the dirt and tramples the flowers.

Yesterday he was climbing the apple trees like a wild cat. When he's like that it's best not to get come too close to him. He's in a playful mood, but the hunter comes out in him and all his wild instincts take over. My cuddly, devoted Woody becomes a fierce, unpredictable predator. I had the camera with me and got a couple of pictures as he was on the move cruising through the trees . . . Looks like he means business, doesn't he? Turns out he was just letting off excess energy, and by the time I came in for supper, he was ready to crash.

We don't know how Woody knows where either of us is in the house, but he definitely prefers to have a human open a door for him to using his own private "kitty door" in the basement. So most of the time during the day we see him like this at my office window, or hear a very loud knock at the kitchen door. We taught him to knock on the door when we first got him. Funny thing, though, he'll give the sap spout attached to a string that raps on the kitchen door a good whack and keep at it until we open the door, but can't seem to grasp the same arrangement on the front door. I guess we should be content he's learned to rap at all.

If we get rain for the next two or three days, we're probably going to have some flooding. May has been a wet month - nearly set a record - so perhaps with this stretch of rainy weather we'll have a new record. I don't imagine many of you are particularly interested in the amount of rainfall we get, but if you are, there's a map showing daily rain amounts. Go to www.cocorahs.org. Click on "Maps" on the top menu. You'll also find other interesting weather information there. You'll see that there is a weather station right at the border of Washington County and Caledonia - that's here. I am now a volunteer precipitation reporter - took the training a couple weeks ago and got my rain gauge set up yesterday, just in time for all this rain. I reported .07 inch this morning. I'm sure there will be lots more in the tube tomorrow. I'll be reporting snow depths when snow flies this winter. I guess it's the farmer in me, but I like to pay attention to the weather. It's important for lots of reasons, and we seem to always have plenty of variety, so this is a fun thing for me to do, and it gets me outside early every morning. I expect that could get old after a while, especially in the winter, but we'll see.

Joe's Pond Association members, don't forget the spring meeting on Saturday. I'll see you there, 10 o'clock, at the pavilion. The side curtains will be on, but it may still be pretty cool according the the forecast, so come prepared. Also remember if you haven't paid your dues yet, I'll be happy to receive them at the meeting. I'll have a few copies of the printed directory with me if you'd like one. It was updated last spring, but there are a few changes, and I can help you with those if you'd like. See you there.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

This came from Pam Johnson today:

I wanted to let you know that yesterday my son Connor and I walked our dog from our place at 25 Edgewood Ave to Channel Drive and had some unexpected company along the way. On the old railroad tracks in between Old Homestead Rd and Brown Rd. we came upon a young bear 3 different times. It crossed in front of us heading toward route 15 and reappeared a couple of minutes later heading back toward the pond. Just before we reached Brown Rd it came out onto the tracks one last time, looked at us, and turned back toward Old Homestead Road.
We walked down Old Homestead Rd a bit and mentioned our experience to some folks who were sitting out back at their cottages, just so they would be aware. I suppose it wouldn't have bothered anyone. I have to admit though, the 3rd time it appeared I was a bit unsettled. I was surprised it was so close to us - especially because of the dog.

Just an FYI. Pam Johnson

Thanks to Pam for letting us know about the bear. I suspect the bear was more curious than anything else, but who wants a bear for a walking companion!!?

Experts say if you encounter a bear you should slowly back away or if it's too close, yell loudly to scare it away. Don't run, and don't climb a tree because if you do the bear will perceive you as prey and go after you. The ones we've seen haven't seemed at all threatening, and apparently this one wasn't - except maybe it was a bit too friendly . . .

Be on the lookout, be sure you have no bird feeders, pet food or garbage around to attract them to your property, and usually if you make plenty of noise when you're in the woods or where bears hang out, they will avoid you and you won't see them.

I hope everyone had a pleasant and significant Memorial Day. It was by accident that I spent much of Saturday afternoon searching for grave sites in four of Cabot's seven cemeteries. A lady who lives somewhere in England emailed me a while back about her ancestors, the Stone family, who lived in Cabot. She requested photos of grave sites, and since I needed to take more of the Cabot oral history books to Julie at the hardware store in Cabot, I took along the list of relatives she'd sent and my maps, and made the rounds.

I'm always impressed at how well kept our cemeteries are. I'm pleased that they are living up to the high standard set by long-time sexton and my friend, Velma (Urban) Smith. Velma retired as sexton few years ago, but before she left, each of Cabot's cemeteries had undergone a complete transformation. Weeds and brush cut back, stones straight and cleaned, fences in good repair and painted, fountains operating, grass always cut, and flowers blooming. She also saw to it that every veteran's grave site was properly marked with a flag. Before she became sexton, nobody was quite sure which graves should be marked, but together Velma and I were able to list veterans back to the Revolution, and every grave had a flag.

I first stopped at the Plains Cemetery. I know just about every name in this small cemetery, although there are some new lots I so I'll need to update my maps. Some Joe's Pond folks have lots in this lovely little cemetery with its 360 degree view. On summer evenings, it's not unusual to find one or two cars parked by the cemetery to watch the sun set. It's a beautiful spot in the summer, but brutal in winter, with winds sweeping across the unprotected landscape, leaving bare ground in some spots and huge drifts of snow in other places.

As I walked among the stones I thought about the Memorial Day celebrations we had when I was a kid at the Plains School. If the weather was nice, we would sometimes walk to the cemetery to place flags and flowers at the grave sites. There would sometimes be parents to give us a ride, but if not, we didn't mind. Some years we had Memorial Exercises at school, and everyone in the neighborhood would come - mostly mothers, as all the dads were busy with spring work on the farms. I remember at least once we were invited to join with the village students, and we rode in the back of a big farm truck with a stake body. I remember the truck, but don't recall anything about the Memorial Day service. Memorial Day usually signaled the end of the school year, too, so I think the anticipation of summer vacation overshadowed the solemnity of honoring our dead soldiers.

The Village Cemetery is much larger than the Plains one, and there are few lots left. The oldest section is on the left of the first driveway, and that's where most of the markers were that I needed to photograph. The photo here shows an older section, but not the earliest, and more recent grave sites are beyond the brow of the hill. Land for a new section has been secured just beyond and to the right of this picture.

I got pictures of all the Stone family stones we have on record. Most were at Durant Cemetery. Col. John Stone and his neighbor, Elihu Coburn, each donated 1/4 acre of land in 1813 for this burial ground. More land was donated in later years, and one of the most charming features in this cemetery is the Jennie Gould Bruce Sunken Garden. It's located at the back of the cemetery next to the Winooski. The amphitheater-like banks were covered with flowers. I didn't go there on Saturday; the care takers were busily mowing to have it looking nice for the weekend, but I like to stop there once in a while. My grandparents and one set of great grandparents are buried in this cemetery, plus several of my aunts and uncles.

My last stop was the Center of Town Cemetery, a favorite spot of mine. It was the first cemetery in town, established in 1799 on an acre of land given by William Osgood. It turned out that Osgood was the first to be buried there, in 1801. Cabot's first school teacher, Joseph Smith is buried there, and many other first settlers. About 90 people were buried there before it was closed in 1846. By then most of the settlers had moved from this, the geographic center of town, down the hill to where the village is now. This marked the second move of the town's seat of government. (The original settlement was on the Plain, then known as Johnson's Plain, but that proved to be too harsh for most, thus the move to the Center of Town.) The meeting house, and other buildings were moved and relocated by the Winooski River, or as one old timer is quoted as remarking, "to the swamp."
Left behind were the stocks and the whipping post. A marker and mounds of earth are all that's left now, and the tidy little cemetery with fragile field stone markers where nine Revolutionary War veterans rest.

Here's a message of interest to those who have homes or summer cottages at Joe's Pond. From our Joe's Pond Association President, Tom Dente:

The Board of Directors meeting Saturday morning disclosed a need to address a problem with phosphate and chemicals flowing to the Pond. These chemicals will ultimately "kill" the Pond. Unfortunately, some misinformation has been verbally communicated and to be sure all members have the correct information, the following is accurate:

The program [discussed at the board meeting] is not about cesspools or other member water or waste systems; it is, however, about how the water gets from the gravel roads to the pond, and the damage caused by use of chemicals on lawns.

Gravel roads can be a significant phosphorus source, depending on how the roads are maintained and upgraded. The majority of gravel road miles are maintained by municipalities, and Vermont towns average 46 gravel road miles each. Vermont’s gravel roads around Joe's Pond effectively become part of the stream network during a rainstorm or spring melt, with the roadside ditches more often than not discharging directly into Joe's Pond. The runoff is important in that it reduces the life of the pond. Where run off occurs from the gravel roads, it should be put through a filter before reaching the Pond. Joe's Pond Association Board of Directors believe the problem will be controllable if we start filtering the flow of water through culverts from the roads into the Pond, removing the problem material before it reaches the Pond.

Folks that use materials on their lawns add to this problem significantly. Members should stop using chemicals on their lawns, and those who pollute the Pond with the use of chemicals on their lawns need to deal with themselves and the future they cause for their children and grandchildren.

Members will hear more about this program during the JPA meetings this Spring and Summer.

We're back to more normal temperatures today. I just came back from our Joe's Pond Association Board meeting at the pavilion, and I have to say, I was really glad Fred had a nice fire going in our wood stove. Our meeting was outside, and we were in the sun, but there was still a cool breeze and while the side curtains at the pavilion really helped cut the full blast of the north wind, there were enough "currents of air" flowing about to keep us chilly. At right, Ray Richer, Tom Dente, Diane Rossi (with back to camera) and Ray Rouleau, before the meeting.

A few people showed up thinking this was the regular meeting - bless 'em! That's what's so great about Joe's Pond members - they're enthusiastic. It's always nice to see folks who have been away for the winter - Ray Rouleau, Andre LaPrade, George Anderson and Tom Dente - and this year we hadn't seen much of Dave Parker because of his achilles tendon operation. We firmed up the agenda for next Saturday's meeting (May 30, 10 a.m.) and we're ready to
roll. At right, more of our JPA Board, Andre LaPrade, Dave Parker, and George Anderson.

I took a picture of our new ceiling at the pavilion. It looks very nice. It has a matte finish instead of being shiny as the former metal ceiling was, and personally I think that is much nicer. Even if it doesn't work as well as we hope it will, aesthetically it's a definite improvement - and Larry Rossi said he thinks we'll notice a difference in the noise level. I tried to get Ray Rouleau to yodel to try it out for echo, but he declined, so next week's meeting will be the test. You can see a comparison of the new ceiling in the foreground and the existing section that has a shine. (Click to enlarge the photos.)

There should be a good turnout for our spring meeting. We always look forward to seeing everyone again after the long winter, and hope to see some new faces, too, so even if you don't usually come to the meetings, give it a try. We'll be glad to see you. I noticed on my way down W. Shore Road this morning there are a lot of people here - some will be just for the holiday weekend, but others are here to stay. I heard Ned Hamilton's plane taking off yesterday for the first time, and Ray Richer said the loons have already one egg in the nest - so summer must be here!

Another sign that summer fun has begun - Thursday I had a call from Carolyn Hamilton and also from Shelly Walker saying our aluminum boat loaded with buoys was floating free up the pond from camp. I haven't talked to Bob or Jamie yet, but apparently they had the boat loaded, ready to go out and set the buoys, but then needed to go to get something either in the village or at Jamie's and while they were away the wind took the boat off the beach and up the pond. They were able to retrieve it with no trouble and (I think) got all the buoys placed. I'll be checking with them later today. Thanks to Carolyn and Shelly for sounding the alert. Last year it was our pontoon boat that got away . . . (big sigh!)

This came from Liz Randall, our W. Shore Rd. neighbor:
On May 17, 2009 Matthew John Randall, son of Elizabeth and John Randall of Joe's Pond, Cabot, VT, and Miller Place, NY, was awarded a Batchelor of Science in Natural Science Cum Laude with minors in Chemistry and Geology, from Lyndon State College, Lyndon, VT.

Matthew also received the Rita L. Bole Award for Outstanding Scholarship which honors the highest-ranking scholars among seniors graduating from four-year programs. He also received the Arthur B. Elliott Honor Society award, which recognizes leadership, scholarship and service to the college and is awarded by faculty and graduates in honor of the second president of the college. Matthew also joins a select group of students to accept one of the most prestigious awards the academic community can bestow -- selection to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Matt will continue his education and has been accepted to the University of Vermont (UVM) Graduate School in Burlington, VT, where he has been awarded a fellowship to pursue a Masters of Science Degree in Pathology. Matt begins class at UVM on June 1, 2009, under the guidance of Dr. Albert van der Vliet. He will be studying emphysema and lung diseases.

Our sincere congratulations to Matt. He has obviously worked very hard and we're sure he'll continue to excel in his field.

Liz sent photos. At upper right are the pipers who led the graduating class to and from the ceremony. The photo below is Matt's brother Jason, who graduated from Lyndon State last year, Dr. Alexandre Strokanov, and Matt. Dr. Strokanov was the professor both Matt and Jason went to Ireland, England and Wales with last year; Matt also visited Dr. Strokanov's home country, Russia.

Liz writes: What a great experience both of our boys had at Lyndon State College and we are very grateful.

---

Melvin A. Friberg passed away on May 15th at Central Vermont Medical Center. We extend sympathy to his daughters, Nancy Pope and Carolyn Friberg, and their families. Services were held on May 19th. Obituary

*****

Mark your calendar - Vermont craftsman are holding "Open Studio Weekend" this weekend, May 23 & 24. Stop by Joe's Pond Craft Shop (shown below) and talk with Deb Stresing (she's a weaver and will be demonstrating the process on her loom) and pick up a booklet so you can find other crafts people to visit in the area. Fred and Bill Rossi stopped by Deb's place today and took some pictures. That's Deb showing Bill something at the counter (below), and you can see her loom in the background. Her shop has lots of new things in this year, so you'll want to stop by and see her.

It looks as if West Danville was a busy place this morning when Bill and Fred were there. Vehicles parked every which way (last picture). There are quite a lot of people around the pond already - some permanently, others just coming

for the day to take advantage of the nice weather to get their camps opened up.

Memorial weekend is often a very busy one, but quite often it's also very cold here at the pond. It looks as if this year may be a pleasant excepti on. Today we've had temps well into the 80's, and for Friday and Saturday, the forecast is for temperatures in the 60's or low

70's, with only a few showers late each day.

We can appreciate that - we always seem to need the rain, especially the folks who have put in their gardens.

CABOT FIRE DEPARTMENT
ANNUAL PANCAKE BREAKFAST
ALL YOU CAN EAT
PANCAKES, SAUSAGE, BACON, MUFFINS, COFFEE, JUICE AND GOOD COMPANY!
MAY 24TH 2009
7:00AM - 11:00AM
CABOT SCHOOL CAFETERIA

$5:00 PER PERSON

Here's something kind of special that's going on right now. There is a local organization called "Earth Mamas", and here are the messages I just received from them:

We are running down the line to find a few more dresses for the Cabot/Twinfield Earth Mamas'
Free Prom Boutique, to be held Saturday at Twinfield's cafeteria. If you
have one to offer, please call Anne at 426-3573 or Allison at 917-3789,
or drop it off at the Cabot coalition office Thursday. Thanks so much!
You will help make someone's prom special, and will be taking part in the ultimate act of recycling!"

Free Prom Boutique

Are you a Twinfield/Cabot girl planning to attend Prom? Does the cost of a new dress for prom seem challenging? Would you love the opportunity for a free dress? If you answered yes to these questions, then here is the event for YOU:

The Earth Mamas Free Prom Boutique

May 23, at 3:00 P.M. at the Twinfield Cafeteria

What do you need to bring? Just the type of shoes you’ll wear to prom! See you there!

The Earth Mamas

This is a really nice idea, so if anyone has a suitable prom dress that nobody in your family will be needing any time soon, why not get it to the Earth Mamas so it can be given to someone who can't afford a dress?