Our day isn't one of the really nice ones like we've had in the past, but even though it's a bit overcast, it isn't all that cold and the sun peeks through from time to time. We walked down to Sandy Beach Road earlier this morning and found Dave Lavely and Dale Bird hard at work on the Gagne house. I'm sure they're hoping for no rain, but that may not work out for them. Looks as if the weather will be at least showery for the next several days.

We have it on good authority that we'll have another year 'rounder couple here at the pond soon. Within a matter of a couple weeks, we understand Jack and Sue LaGue will begin building a year-around home on their site on Sandy Beach Road. If our information is correct, they will be knocking down the existing cottage. We look forward to having them here in the winter. Sandy Beach Road will have a sizable year around community.

We went to do recycling yesterday. Fred went on Wednesday, but turned back after traffic was held up just outside of Hardwick. Turns out there is a short stretch of road just this side of Hardwick village that was some sort of test site when they repaved a few years ago. According to an article in the Hardwick Gazette this week, the state tried some kind of new preparation that used ground up tires with the regular tar mix for resurfacing and apparently that surface has worn away much more quickly than expected, leaving a very slick surface for about a three mile stretch of the highway. There probably was an accident there on Wednesday, but we haven't seen anything about that. However, there were large warning signs at each end of that stretch that the road was slippery. It does look very slick and we'd noticed that earlier in the summer. I would expect they will need to do something to correct that before winter, but the newspaper article didn't address that.

After recycling, we decided to go to Morrisville. We stopped by Price Chopper for a few items and then took advantage of a McDonald's coupon we've been carrying around for a while. Of course we hesitated all of 10 seconds before deciding to turn left instead of right as we left the recycling just outside of Wolcott. It was such a nice day, we just enjoyed the ride and while we knew we certainly didn't need the fast-food, and didn't really need to stop at Price Chopper, we haven't been up that way for quite a long time and I think we both wanted a short break from work at home.

In the afternoon, I had a call to do some research at the Plains Cemetery and then at the town offices, so it turned out to be a pretty busy day, but very pleasant.