AccuWeather was Accu-right: announced by two claps of thunder that did more than merely get our attention, rain began in the early afternoon and has continued for several hours. Not a drenching rain, however - none of the front-lawn wheat fields down toward Sangerfield were damaged nor was curbing installation halted on Madison Street and Park Place - and the temperature has dropped from the eighties to a pleasantly tolerable seventy degrees - quite chilly in comparison to yesterday.

In mentioning that mini heatwave to one of our more senior citizens, this morning, he calmly said that he had played golf later in the afternoon, and enjoyed himself, completely! That either says something about golfers or - more likely - about those who have seen ninety or more summers and are more accepting of any such seasonal discomforts!

It had been the writer's intention to save all Social Notes until after the Wednesday publication of the Waterville Times so as not to scoop the social column contained therein, but - because there really are a great many Watervillians who do not spend day after day looking at orange and white barrels and actually do go traveling to other cities, other states and - even - other countries, that we shall start working news of their recent experiences into this chronicle starting tomorrow morning.