We heard from John and Liz Randall they have a lovely new grandson.  Of course we're waiting for a picture, but in the meantime,

Hi Jane and Fred,

We are over the moon with JOY!

John  Perry Randall was born on Thursday, June 13, 2013 he was 5 pounds 5 ounces 18 3/4 inches.  

First child of  Jason and Kerrin Randall.

He was born in Concord Hospital in Concord, N.H.     

Proud grandparents:  John and Elizabeth Randall of Miller Place, NY. and Debra and Perry Wilmarth of Salem, NH

First time proud Great-Grandparents: Hildegard and the late James McDowell, formally of Port Jefferson Station, NY; Harry and Florence Randall of Mt. Sinai, NY; and Gretchen and Paul Wilmarth of Salem, NH.

Congratulations to Jason and Kerrin, and to the grands and great grands - we know you'll have many wonderful moments with the new babe.  We're so glad everyone is doing well.

John and Liz have a home on West Shore Road which they have been visiting both summer and winter, and where Jason lived while attending Lyndon State College.  We've watched the family grow up (they are our neighbors directly across the road) and we're very happy for Jason and Kerrin.

I know people have been interested in the e.coli reports this summer and comparing them to last summer, so I contacted Kelli Merrell a while back.  She told me reports have all been very good so far this summer, even with all the rain we've had.  We haven't had the goose population, and several septic systems have been corrected, so we believe we're on the right course.  Kelli sent this graph to illustrate her findings.

 If you need to see it a bit larger, click on the image.

Fred sent me some especially good news - it was actually from a Walmart ad:

How great is that!?

This noon I met with the people who were searching their property lines up near the cemetery on Cabot Plain, and found what we were looking for.  It was wet in the woods, but not raining when we were there.  The rain started shortly after I got back home, though.   We went into some pretty dense slash country and it was fairly hard going some of the way.  Fortunately, we didn't have to go far.  Some of the area was very steep and we needed to be extra careful because everything was so wet.  It would have been easy to fall and do some damage.  But we made it safely, found what was needed, and weren't even too badly eaten by black flies and mosquitoes, although they were out in force.  I had used "Off", so I didn't get chewed at all.