We went to the basketball game in Cabot last night. Our granddaughter, Jo-Ann, was playing - the 7th and 8th grade Waterford team against the 7th and 8th grade Cabot team. It was a really good game and they seemed to be pretty well matched. The girls on both teams did a super job, and since Cabot is my home town, we just cheered for everyone. It's fun to see those young athletes doing their best and playing a really good game. Jo-Ann was tired and hungry when she got back to our house. Her aunts and uncles showed up for the game and then we had a family meal here, so it was a fun
evening. That's Jo-Ann in the dark green uniform, No. 3.









New granddaughter, Tangeni, is about 7 1/2 months old now and has been to all of her big sister's games this year, so she takes in all the noise whistles, yelling and excitement like a pro. That's her concentrating on her Aunt Theresa above left. She even tolerated Cabot's mascot, a giant fuzzy toothy husky, above right, doing a little performance for her and some other youngsters. The mascot and a friend put on a pretty funny show at half time - I don't know who either of the boys were, or whether the performance was planned or them just goofing around, but we certainly enjoyed watching them - maybe even more than Tangeni did.

Waterford won, 17-14, but Cabot was ahead for a while and it turned out to be a hard-fought win for Waterford. Both teams played a really good game.

We've had a little snow over the last couple of days. We got a little over an inch yesterday and an inch and a half overnight. It's been well above freezing all day, so the snow has packed down and really didn't amount to much at all. We're wondering if the sap ran yesterday and today. I wouldn't be surprised if it did - there seemed to be a lot of warmth in the sun.

Fred and I had a nice surprise the other day. Cia Considine, one of the staff members of the Cabot Chronicle, stopped by with some delicious cupcakes for us and a special coffee mug for Fred. The printing around the bottom of the mug says, "Established 1920 Re-Established 2008." Fred helps with their website, www.CabotChronicle.org, and I sometimes supply historic information or photos from the Cabot Historical Society collection.

Speaking of the Historical Society collection, I'm working on a very old journal/ledger that belonged to Thomas Osgood, who lived in Cabot years ago. It is badly torn with many pages missing, and is quite fragile. I will scan what pages there are and then put the original book away so it will be somewhat preserved. On the last page I can make out the following: "1796 March the 16 and 17 days there was a very great storme of snow about eighteen inches deep and I was at Dewesburg at Esq. Colmans blocked up with the snow three days & we got home the 22 day a Sunday."

March storms can be doozies - lots of us are wondering if we'll have one of those big ones this year after such a snow-less winter.

Osgood's trip home from Deweysburg, which was a strip of land between Peacham and Danville, would probably have taken him over the old military road to Cabot Plain and then towards the Center of Town. The distance would be about six miles, but all tough going back in those days. Throughout the journal are references about his "mare," indicating he had a horse he would let others use for a price. When the settlers first came here, not many of them had horses. They used either cows or oxen for working the land.