Here's a way to take advantage of the hot summer weekend: invite yourself along on a friend's boat for water skiing. The lake temperature yesterday was 77 and it will likely go up another degree or two over the next couple of days. It doesn't get much warmer that, folks, so head down to the Town Beach or out on a boat and enjoy the heat. Snow skiing isn't the only game in town!
But will it solve the problem? The center of the West Village sports hefty granite rounded corners and (we hope) replanted begonias. Will the trucks make the turn without crushing the corners and axing their axles? We'll see. But for now, it looks promising.
Yesterday was another beautiful, perfect summer day. One of the few this year, but it was a very good one. The Charlotte News was in production so we had to spend most of the day in the office, but we snuck out for a half hour of bliss, watching the boats go by and the raft bobbing in the water, calling...
This is Logan. He likes to lie on the dock with his ball. Sometimes the ball rolls off his paws and falls in the water. Then Logan looks at the ball floating in the water real hard. Then he looks at people on the dock. It's clear he's saying, "Doesn't anybody see that my ball fell in? Again?" Eventually, if no one retrieves it for him, Logan will walk to the shore and swim out to get it, but he'd rather just telegraph his message to the swimmers and sunbathers. Then he'll take his ball and lie back down on the dock, right next to the edge, and the whole process starts again.
Thanks to Lisa Beal for sending in this photo and report of a successful family fishing outing. Lisa wrote, "It was my husband's birthday (Erik Beal), but it was 10-year-old Shane who caught this large mouth bass in Lake Champlain in July. We threw it back, but based on our estimates from the photo, we believe it was as much as 4.5 pounds and 19 inches long." That's Shane's sister Heidi on the left.
Congratulations to Shane and his helpers!
Here are a few scenes from yesterday's 15th annual Town Party. The weather held, adorable kids played with the rescue pugs and tried out the fire engines. Hazel Prindle was there, chatting with Mary Lighthall at the Historical Society table. The Charlotte News staff posed for a group pic and served Judy Laberge's cake to those that stopped by. A big Thank You! to everyone who left their donation - we'll be drawing the winners of the raffle later today. It was great to see so many Charlotters catching up with each other, hauling around their books from the sale.
