Well, here we've had the first day of spring, mostly with snow flurries.  I have to admit the temperature got into the mid to upper 30's for a little while today, and there was some very mild melting going on along West Shore Road, but even though we're going to be treated to a pretty nice day again tomorrow, we can expect more cold weather Sunday and Monday nights - I mean really in the neighborhood of zero.  But then it looks as if March might go out on a gentler trend and the sugar makers might even get a run of sap in there somewhere.

Although right now we think summer may be a really long way off, plans are being made.  The Danville Fair Committee met recently and Kitty Toll let me know the fair is on for this year, August 8th and 9th (Friday and Saturday).  The theme is "Back on the Green in 2014!"   There is a lot of excitement about having it on the Green, especially since there are so many improvements - it should be a great celebration.

Those of you coming back to Joe's Pond will notice some changes in the landscape this summer.  There has been a lumbering operation directly across Route 2 from West Shore Road, where the road to Farmer John's is.  Much of that has been logged off, and today we noticed there's more logging on the south side of West Shore Road - that small piece of land that went with the Blackadar place just above the power line. These were mature stands of mostly soft wood and probably needed to be harvested.  Both the original Blackadar farm that Bill and Jane Ward owned, and the house that Dorothy "Pete" Blackadar built across Route 2 from the farm, have been sold fairly recently. 

We appreciate that spring is here, according to the calendar, at least.  With luck April will be a gentler month without being a too drastic change into summer.  But this winter has taught us that we should be prepared for the unexpected, so have the sun block handy and shine up the golf clubs - summer may come early this year after all!