Time Line Video!

 

We just received another video from Jamie Dimick at Kingdom Access Television (KATV) in St. Johnsbury. It is called "JPA Timeline of Eurasian Watermilfoil: Organization of Resources 2024-2025." This is a short history chronicling the discovery of EWM in our lake and the extensive efforts to control its spread. Featuring JPA President Joe Hebert, and Barry Cahoon, the Director of our EWM Team, I found this to be both informative and entertaining. 

 

This will be an important document in years to come as we negotiate through the difficult process of trying to locate and control the spread of this very aggressive rapid-growth aquatic plant that threatens to overtake our beautiful lake. 

 

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 Here is a brief message from Jenny Gelfan and the late Frank Dolan's family: 

 

 Frank Dolan slipped away at the Jack Byrne Center at Dartmouth Health on August 6, 2025 from glioblastoma, a brain cancer. If you knew Frank, you know how much he was loved. And that he loved Joe's Pond and you his neighbors here.

 

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We have had a few very brief and very light showers in the past 24 hours, but it has not been enough to help our very dry conditions. Water is in short supply in almost all of the brooks and rivers, and pond levels are way down in most cases. Joe's Pond is lower than normal, but the dam in West Danville keeps the level as steady as possible, allowing only a few inches fluctuation. With more very hot, dry weather ahead next week, it is likely that it will be impossible to prevent the water level from going below where the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources has deemed it must be kept. Sometimes all the surveys, rules, regulations, and new-fangled gadgets that are put into service to control nature are simply no match for the elements. While it only sprinkled here, I just had a note from a friend who said it poured in Cabot Village.

 

Diane Rossi and I had a very nice meal tonight, thanks to the folks at the Cabot United Church. The chicken was nicely done and there were very generous sides of macaroni and cheese, cole slaw, a roll - topped off with our choice of desserts, which all looked great, but we both chose cream puffs which were specially made by Christa Sholtz - traditional cream puffs with fresh strawberries added into the cream! So good! I should have bought an extra meal to have later!! Or at least extra desserts! Why didn't I think of that!?

 

Tonight will probably be the last night I have my house guest, Thor. His family arrived home today and will likely come to pick him up tomorrow. I have to admit I will really miss his company. I won't miss guarding doors to be sure he doesn't sneak past me to explore the great outdoors, which he has never experienced; or his insistence that he must be fed at least three times a day, preferably getting his snack before I get my own meal. And I won't miss playing the "time for bed" game when he senses it's time for him to be "retired" to his own room and he suddenly gets very frisky. He enjoys the game, I think - I can see the sparkle in his eyes as he hides just out of my reach or races past me and makes a grand leap onto a high cupboard or over the back of a chair where he knows I'm not going to be able to grab him. Sometimes I lure him with food, or sometimes I just go back to my chair, turn on TV and end the game. He will usually hop up into my lap and then I've got him! Still, it's a battle of wits I'm sure he enjoys far more than I do. I'll miss him, for sure, but he will no doubt visit again the next time they head away on vacation.