Heigh ho and a tale of woe! My computer conked out during the last week. How aimless a life I now lead, with no calendar to beep reminders at me! Ah well, it will strengthen the aging memory. Find the good in everything, Joanna! (Snuffle, don' wanna! Wanna sulk.)
Some cheery reminders! The Friends of Fort Edgecomb will be hunkering down for Hasty Pudding with a whiff of grapeshot this weekend. This encampment will include their monthly members meeting for July. Wander over and see what they are all about!
On Saturday the 10th, lobsters will be doing their quadrille for your dining pleasure at the Edgecomb Congregational Church, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Chicken also available. This dinner is for the benefit of their H.O.M.E. project, housing for the homeless, in Orland.
Some of you may have been inconvenienced this week, owing to road work on the Cross Point Road, just before the Mill Road turnoff. Our Road Commissioner, Russell Griffin, and crew are replacing a major culvert at that point. Before you phone with your complaints, stop and think. How much louder would your complaint be if that culvert were not replaced?
Speaking of roadwork, MDOT has sent out its roadside brush control spraying alert. During the month of July, all state and state-assisted roads will be sprayed "A combination of Triclopyr and Dicamba are mixed together with water to make a spray that is ½ percent herbicide and 99 ½ percent water. Depending on roadside conditions ... a very dilute mix of Fosamine Ammonium with water will be used." Besides Route 27, Edgecomb's state-assisted roads are the River Road, McKay Road and the Eddy Road. If you have concerns, call MDOT's Senior Landscape Architect Robert Moosmann at 624-3107.
Written on Friday, July 2, so wishing you all a Grand Fourth of July in retrospect, from 234 River Road, 633-2978, and yes, still bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.