I received this message this morning from JPA President, Tom Dente: 

Hi Jane,
 So sorry to have to inform you that Bob "Col." Lockwood passed away last evening at home with his family. He had been in declining health the past several months and his wife Marty wrote at Christmas that he was failing. He did a lot for Joes Pond from adding on a section of the pavilion to organizing and running as  “Commodore” the sail boat races on the pond. He will be missed as a friend.  
Camilla and Tom

Many present and former Joe's Ponders will remember Bob and Marty.  They bought the big island in 1976, but it wasn't until Bob retired from the United States Marine Corps in 1983 that they spent their entire summers here and became very active in the Joe's Pond Association.  When Jules Chatot was president of JPA, he designated August 13, 1987 "Bob Lockwood Day."  The Lockwoods restored and rededicated the small chapel on their island in 1988, opening it for ecumenical services and weddings.  They welcomed visitors and enjoyed relating how so many local people assisted in the restoration of the chapel.  About 2004, Bob and Marty sold the island to Abel and Kitty Toll and left Joe's Pond to be closer to their family.  We are saddened to learn of Bob's passing.  As soon as I have more information, I will post it here.

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We had a cold night, as predicted, last night.  My back yard thermometer registered -20 degrees when we first looked, and it's still only up to -18.  At the front of the house where the sensor is under the deck, we had a low of -13 degrees, and now it's up to -7.   Not a day for the beach, by any means.

 We went to watch granddaughter Jo-Ann play basketball last night.  It was pretty darned cold to be anywhere except inside, but we had fun, and her Waterford team won handily over the Lyndon girls, I think the final score was something like 35 to 7.  Waterford girls are unbeaten so far this season, but they still have some tougher teams coming up.  They are pretty good, though, for seventh and eighth graders. 

We didn't get to see much of little Tangeni - she slept through the whole game, whistles, yelling and all.  Monika said she'd been having a cold and hadn't been sleeping as well as normal, but she was sure making up for it last night.  We didn't stay for the boys' game, but Monika said they would stay, at least until Tangeni woke up hungry so they'd need to go home.

It was still very cold when we left St. Johnsbury, about 8 above zero, and by the time we got back to our house, it was exactly zero.  Not many people around - many of the places we thought would be open, like Anthony's and Tim's Deli, were closed, but I don't know if they would normally be closed on a Tuesday evening or if it was because nobody was stirring.  The pizza place on Portland Street was open, but there were no customers that we could see, and not much moving on Railroad Street.  We got sandwiches at Subway and brought them home, which we often do when we go to a game.  

I was out briefly this morning to measure snowfall for CoCoRaHS and clean off the front deck.  It was one of those nose-pinching mornings, for sure, and I was glad to get back inside.  We'll go out again around noon to walk/run the hill, but it will hopefully be warmer by then.  Maybe.