Brisk out! 35.2 degrees and clear at 7 o'clock.
In re: old-fashioned weather forecasting --- Mrs. Aldridge of Madison Street has observed (with pleasure!) that the bees that have bothered her throughout the Summer seem to have either left or holed-up early.
An all-brown woolly-bear caterpillar was sighted on the Sanger Avenue sidewalk. Does that prove anything? Only that brown woolly-bear caterpillars are not extinct!
Hundreds - or, perhaps, thousands - of geese have been circling in the skies over Waterville for the past few days. Some gaggles aim North; some set out toward the East or West. Very few head South.
No: hazelnuts - used for flavoring coffee and simply eaten whole - don't come from Witch Hazel. (I wasn't sure, so I "googled" hazelnut and found lots more than I ever wanted to know about them!)
On Madison Street
On Putnam StreetIt'll be a nice day to decorate. Send me a picture of YOUR front door!
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