Weathersfield News, Week of January 6, 2014

What a wild ride the New Year has been so far. I woke up this morning to rain pounding on the metal roof right over my bed. Just a day or so ago it was sub-zero temperatures and snow!

If I were a cartoon character, my nemesis would be my alarm clock. Mornings and I do not get along well. I usually like to start my day around 9. By then, the dogs are usually awake and Meeka, the pug, is singing to me that she has to go out! With all the extra things going on in my life right now, sleeping is harder to do. Going to bed is no problem. Shutting down my brain so it stops going over things again and again and again is harder to do. Sigh.

There have been a couple of fires here in Weathersfield in the last week or so and a few accidents, one with a fatality resulting. The weather conditions in Vermont in January are, to say the least, difficult. Please, please, please do not skip on safety and patience to do what you need to do or go where you need to go. Frozen pipes, frozen roads, treacherous conditions make even the simplest things most dangerous.

The Weathersfield Food Shelf is opening for business.  Food will distributed on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month from 4:00 to 6:00 pm beginning on January 9th. It is currently located at the Country Creemee at Downers Corners (junction of Routes 103 and 131).

The Weathersfield Historical Society will lead a snowshoe hike on Sunday, January 19th, on a historic "throw-up" road from Upham's mill site to Barrett's Mill Site along ALdrich and Boynton Brooks. The three mile hike is of moderate difficulty with minor bushwhacking and several brook crossings. Participants are meeting and parking at Wellwood Orchard on Wellwood Orchard Road at 1 pm.

If anyone would like to volunteer to spot a car at the end of the hike to bring hikers back to the beginning point, please come at 12:30. If there is little snow, the hike will go on foot. For more information, contact Jeff Pelton at 802-885-9517.

Poetry 180 was the 2013 Vermont Humanities Council pick for the Vermont READS program, the statewide One-Book community reading program. This selection focused on  adults and high school readers. Drop by the library - it's not too late to pick up a copy of Poetry 180. Visit the Poetry 180 website and read a poem a day as an experiment and let us know what you think.

Come to the Weathersfield Proctor Library Book Group meeting with Lynn (at the Library) on Wednesday, January 15th at 6:30 pm and/or come to the Perkinsville Potluck lunch on Tuesday January 21 (at the Perkinsville Community Church) where Nancy will talk about the book and have copies available.

Everyone have a safe and happy New Year!