Our nice weather is back, just in time for the weekend!  The Joe's Pond Spirits are smiling on us.  I haven't been outside much today - but we did our usual walk up Jamie and Marie's driveway around noon, and found this fairly large bear track in the road.  That's Fred's hand in the picture to show you how large the track is.  We could see where the bear had come out of the woods and crossed the newly dug ditch and then walked across the driveway which had been torn up earlier this week to dispose of old hardtop and hasn't been resurfaced yet.  There weren't many other tracks, but we could see that the animal crossed the road and  our neighbor's lawn, headed in the general direction of the head of the pond.  We didn't check West Shore Road for more tracks; we probably wouldn't have seen any at all except that the driveway had been recently dug up.

This was West Danville yesterday when we went to check the mail.  The weather was misty and wet, but everything is so fresh and green, it's a wonderful time of the year.  Fred got this pretty picture of the brook below the dam showing the new penstock coming out of the dam.  The water didn't seem to be terribly high, even though we've had quite a bit of rain in the past few days.  Things will dry out this weekend, though.  Now we hope the trend for nice weekends holds through the Fourth. 

We heard a lot of fireworks last night, but didn't see them.  Someone was celebrating something, I suppose.  Or maybe they were hoping to scare the geese.  The pesky birds are still being a problem, and we're hoping to be able to get the Wildlife people here to do a roundup before it's too late.  We've been hearing that other communities and states have a problem, as well, and the Wildlife people are very busy with roundups; I guess we've just been fortunate this is only the second year we've had a big problem.  Right now the birds cannot fly.  The young ones are not strong enough and the adults are molting.  Here are some "goose facts" if you are interested.  Since the young return at age 2 to wherever they were born, this year's crop is likely at least some of the ones we had here two years ago.  The numbers increase rapidly, so it is imperative to control the nesting.  Hunting season here may not be enough.