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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!
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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 t
here. We saw daught
er-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.
here. We saw daught
er-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.
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