Weathersfield News Week of August 26, 2013

Where, oh, where, has summer gone?

There are only 22 days left until Autumn. I was visiting with a good friend, Roger, from South Carolina today when the yellow leaves were falling around us.

There are vegetables in the freezer, homemade spaghetti sauce cooking on the stove, waiting to be canned. Apples are ready for picking, the pumpkins are huge and already turning orange.

School is starting tomorrow for Weathersfield students. Later this week for Springfield. The air is cold and crisp first thing in the mornings. The hay loft is full. The pigs and turkeys are getting big.

Wellwood Orchards Customer Appreciation Day 2013 is scheduled for Saturday, August 31, 2013 

This is OUR day to celebrate YOU, our loyal customers.From 10 am to 3 pm on Wellwood Orchard Road, Weathersfield, VT. There will be a MAGIC SHOW by "HOCUS POCUS" from 10am to 11 am

*See your Local Fire & Police Departments, *Face Painter Extraordinaire- Linda Weiser, *Enjoy Balloon animals with "Cheryl the Clown" and *Acoustic Guitar by John Laware.

FREE: hotdogs, chips, soda, kids games, petting zoo, face painting, balloon art, contests, wagon rides and prizes.!!!!!!Games and food begin after the MAGIC show!!!

The early winter forecast from the Farmer's Almanac says:
So, what’s in store for this winter? The “Days of Shivery” are back! 
For 2013–2014, we are forecasting a winter that will experience below average temperatures for about two-thirds of the nation. A large area of below-normal temperatures will predominate from roughly east of the Continental Divide to the Appalachians, north and east through New England.

With a combination of below-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation the stage will be set for the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Central and Northern New England to receive lots of snow. Farther south, where the thermometer will be vacillating above or below the freezing mark, Southern New England, Southeast New York, New Jersey, and down through the Mid-Atlantic region will be seeing either copious rains and/or snows

Significant snowfalls are forecast for parts of every zone. Over the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, we are “red-flagging” the first ten days of February for possible heavy winter weather.

And mid-March could bring a wave of storminess stretching almost from coast to coast, bringing a wide variety of precipitation types as well as strong and gusty winds.

Keep the hope. Spring is only 200 days away...