I have a couple of announcements to post:

Hello all,

With the winter weather advisory that has been posted for today through tonight I want to be safe rather than sorry so … our first Cheerleading practice scheduled for tonight will be cancelled. I hope to see you all on Wednesday, December 8th.

Brigitte

Don't forget the Cabot Community Chorus is presenting a concert tonight at 7 p.m. at the church. Amanda Legare tells me this will be a fun collection of songs, featuring a western solo by Melvin Churchill. Remember I mentioned Melvin a while back as having a nice singing voice. Amanda says this rendition is a hoot! You probably shouldn't miss this concert if you can make it through the snow.

Actually, the Cabot road crews have been out today, sanding and I suppose plowing if needed. We don't really have that much snow, but it has been blowing about some, so there could be small drifts, but nothing most folks around here will find daunting. I'm not sure how the main highways are, though. That could be a different story; but if you drive carefully, you should be ok.

We've been busy most of the day doing puttering things. Mostly, we've been rearranging our phones. All this recent discussion about the emissions from cordless phones got us to thinking. We have phones all over the house. Most the cordless. We are also at our desks a great deal of time, literally a couple feet at most from our phones. We have one in the kitchen, and by my reading chair in the living room.

I should have said "had" them in all those places. We realized we also have a bunch of corded phones - a necessity if the power goes out, which happens often here in the hills - and figured out we really don't need all those hazardous cordless phones. I have to get up from my desk to reach the corded wall phone in my office right now, but when I get a free moment, I'll switch that to within reach at my desk. I don't think any of our corded phones have caller i.d., which is helpful when telemarketers are calling, but so what if we answer an unwanted call - it's easy to just hang up. Numbers show up on the TV when we have that on in the evening, so no big deal there. If we decide we can live without being able to walk all over the house with a phone to our head, we may invest in a new corded phone with all the gadgets . . . we'll see how it goes.

I know one thing I really enjoy about the older phones - I can cradle the thing on my shoulder and have both hands free. That just doesn't work with the newer streamlined phones - my neck isn't flexible enough to allow it. I have sometimes wondered how long it would be before we got into the "what ever's old is new again" mode. Remember a few years ago there was the return to turntables and vinyl records? I guess that didn't go too far, but some of us still have a pretty extensive collection of 78 rpm records . . . and maybe even a few 45's, if we could only find the adapter . . .

The road crews are preparing for a snowy night - they're saying the snow is light, but it does make the roads slippery. There are a couple of accidents on the interstate.

We just learned that Jenny Larrabee Rafuse has been hired at the Cabot Health Clinic. Jenny has apparently been working at the Plainfield Health Center for some time, and now will spend a few days each week in Cabot. That's good news. We'd wondered why we weren't seeing Jenny at the store much recently.