I received the following a couple days ago - sorry, Jack, it got lost in the shuffle:

Hi Jane,

On our boat ride last night we retrieved a green and white golf umbrella with a St. Johnsbury Academy logo from the middle pond, in front of the Laperle camp.  Its owner can call me at 476-4505.

We also still have a bright orange 55 gallon plastic barrel that we found floating in the big pond last fall that we would like to return to its owner.

By the way, we've noticed a bit of confusion on what pond is what.  For some people, the first pond is the big pond and for others the first pond is the small pond in West Danville.  I suppose it might be different depending on whether one is from points east or points west.

So rather than call them first, second and third as we have conventionally, we are now referring ot them as big, middle and little.  It is great that life at Joe's Pond gives us such weighty issues to think about.  :>)

Jack

I don't know what to tell you about which pond gets called "first" - but I think big, middle and little are a good solution.  Personally, I tend to work from south to north and think of the first pond being in W. Danville, making the big pond the third, and then the Rogers Ponds (Kettle ponds to some) further up the channel the fourth and fifth.  It's too darned hot to labor of it, and I don't think there is any "right" or "wrong" to it.

Speaking of being hot - Woody was pretty hot again today, but found a cool spot in the shade on the deck.   He spent much of the afternoon out there while Fred was mowing the lawn.  He didn't even know I was taking his picture!

We're looking forward to some relief from the heat perhaps tonight.  I expect it may come in the form of severe thunder storms, but at least we should get some much needed rain, and a drop in temperature.  It's too bad it's coming on the weekend, but perhaps it'll still be pretty nice here at the pond.  We sure can't complain about "no summer" - we've already had more summer weather than lots of past summers.