Monday morning!

64.2F. AccuWeather predicts a mostly-cloudy day with thunderstorms this afternoon and this evening.

It was the Yankees over the Mets 16 - 7, and the RedSox beat Florida 4 - 3.

NASA has delayed the shuttle launch until the 4th of July, hoping that clear skies will shine on Florida and the launch can finally take place sometime between 2:37 and 2:42 P.M.

There WILL be GARBAGE Collection today, just as on all Mondays, but there will be no Village Board Meeting tonight. The next will take place on the 17th.

A gentleman who nearly always knows what's going on in the Highway Reconstruction Department hints that very little work - if any - will take place today; none, of course, tomorrow, but that on Wednesday morning ALL phases of work will come on like "Gang Busters" and that a great deal of paving will get done during the rest of the week.

8:00 A M. Update: Sidewalk prep is taking place in front of the laundromat and road scraping on Sanger. All we can do is hope that we have no torrential rains between now and Wednesday!

These views of the countryside around Waterville are especially for those readers who live in crowded cities and, even, in foreign countries. If there are any other sorts of views that you would like to see, please advise! And if you have travel pictures of your own that you would like to submit, just send JPEGS by E-mail to - homeinthehuddle@aol.com.

The Ride in the Country begins on Lewis Road, E. of Route 12, where - high on the hill - someone is building a private castle. There appears to be a great deal of work yet to be done on the edifice, but - once finished - the residents will have a 360-degree "Million Dollar View."




'Way out on White Street, at the Huggins farm in "Sheepskin Hollow," Colleen's gardens glow like jewels






and, sparkling on the lawn, this very happy Holstein planter!






On days like this, the windmills on Stone Road are nearly invisible and most motorists travelling Route 12 would hardly know they were there. But once you get close to them, at the end of Tinker Hollow Road, they are enormous! (Not that the cattle in the lower left-hand corner of the picture pay any attention to them!)


Still muddy from the rains, the Sangerfield River would beckon a paddler north from Loomis Road were it not for the "blowdown" blocking the route. Our ride had begun as one band of thunderstorms passed eastward and ended as another overtook us from the southwest, but along all roadsides (as to the left of the stream in this picture) Elderberry Bushes are in bloom. Does anyone still make Elderberry Wine?












And can anyone identify for us this mystery crop?


Remember: to better view any of the pictures, just "click" on it and magic will happen!