Daphne and the kids came tumbling in around 11:30 Thursday night. We all went over to the School to eat spaghetti, and we admired the book fair, but Ben and Kate were too tired to wait up for the Bread and Puppets and Edgecomb Eddy Students' performance. So we came home. Someone please tell me all about it!
We had a wonderful Balducci-smoked duck for Easter dinner, and enjoyed the company of Bruce's sister June from Bristol Mills. Going over to pick up the duck, I showed young Kate the llamas and emus. Don't know what she made of them, but Daphne and I had fun! Went over the Davey Bridge to peer at the water/sewer pipe barge, and back home by way of Eddy, Cross Point and Mill Roads. Meanwhile, Ben helped Bruce plant seeds in the big starter flat down cellar.
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The Edgecomb Historical Society held its first spring meeting last Thursday. We reviewed our activities of the last year, circling around the probable site of the Rosicrucian Springs, and planning the Fort Edgecomb Bicentennial for 2008. We plan to conduct an inventory of historic and scenic sites in Edgecomb, with, as one object among several, to develop a useful map. I have become the new secretary, after the long, capable tenure of Sophie Quinn. Thanks from all of us to you, Sophie!
We are enjoying a good old-fashioned mud season, and our driveway proves it! Warmer weather, bright sun, and slow snow melt, perfect for refreshing the ground water and soaking the soil for planting. Snowdrops, chionodoxa and crocus are out; narcissus and daffodil spears are visible, also some iris. Our two little Japanese maple trees are vibrantly red! Buds are swelling on rosebushes, lilac trees, and the one remaining forsythia tangle. Big question: What will the elderly apple trees do this Spring? We have counted up to eight turkey toms gliding around like war galleons, wings sweeping, tails spread, drumming and gobbling at the hens. The whole flock must be around 25-30 strong, has added a few members. It seems like a large male-to-female ratio. Probably the several tom poults who were beardless youths last spring have fully matured. I will not be surprised if the flock splits up after this summer.
Family Klemme departed Sunday at noon, made it home to Guilford CT in a bit under five hours, much squabbling in the back seat reported. Meanwhile, Bruce and I turn our attentions back to whatever it was we were doing before Easter at 234 River Road, 633-2978, bonesukl@midcoast.com. This column appears in several local papers, and at www.Edgecomb.org.