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Yes, Swap and Shop has been a daily program for decades. It used to be a full hour from 10 to 11 am but now starts at 10:15 and runs to about 10:50. The younger generations tend to buy and sell on the Internet.

Recent heavy rains have raised lake levels to 67.7%.

That is high enough to remove drought watch water use restrictions but so far the city council has not done so. Hot weather has started so the lake levels may soon drop again.

Warm enough to sit out on the porch today. Local Oldies station is playing many summer-themed songs. Trying to jumpstart the season. ;) Mrs.V already has 2 concerts scheduled. She was gone most of yesterday at a rehearsal. Today she has 2 rehearsals one this afternoon and another this evening. The N...

Wildfire in Canada forces thousands to evacuate as smoke causes dangerous air quality https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfire-canada-forces-evacuate-smoke-dangerous-air-quality/ Thousands of residents from a Canadian town are being urged to evacuate amid a fast-growing wildfire that has resulted in p...

Quite a life.

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 12:32 pm This article brings to mind the two things those of us who live in tourist areas worry about:

1. No one will show up.
2. Everyone will show up.

If it is autumn on the North Fork everyone shows up.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :lol: New York’s North Fork is the cooler cousin of the Hamptons https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/north-fork-new-york#:~:text=Actually%2C%20exactly%20as%20far%20as,has%20become%20the%20cooler%20peninsula. The Hamptons in the summer is like Midtown Manh...

Bombshell NY Times report claims Trump could owe $100M after double-dipping on tax claims https://www.rawstory.com/trump-taxes-2668234251/ Former President Donald Trump could owe the IRS more than $100 million after claiming dubious tax breaks on his skyscraper in Chicago, a bombshell New York Time...

Since most of the houses here are weekend and/or summer cottages, lawn care is a weekend thing. It is early in the season. Mrs.V and I are the only summer people opened up so far on the Circle. Our favorite local restaurant will open for the season on the 15th. Bad timing since they will miss the Mo...

Too chilly to sit on the porch this morning.

But fear not! I can still hear the lawnmowers. Recent rains have encouraged the grass giving the mowers something to do.

Sigh.

I was in college and grad school in Boston/Cambridge from mid 1969 thru mid 1974. That was the time of student activism opposing the war in Vietnam including the student strike following the Kent State shootings. Looking back I think that the MIT administration handled those as well as possible. For...

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 9:26 pm That's our Jem

Local WLNG radio news just reported that only a small number of Peconic Bay scallops survived the winter. Spawning will be below normal this year. This fall's scallop harvest season will once again be dismal.



Scientists continue to study the causes of this.

As forecast, raining on the North Fork this morning.

Cold front on the way.

Great sunny weather today on the North Fork.

Dew on the grass right now. High temperature today in low 70s.

Rest of the week will be rainy and colder.

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 3:58 pm Oh, dear. Does he live there year-round?

Yes. His younger daughter recently moved to a new home just four miles away so he has help nearby now. Older daughter lives up Island.

Our neighbor to the right broke his ankle today. He is 11 years older than we are.

Both his daughters are here. The younger one just brought him back from the hospital.

Mrs. V spoke with the older daughter. Neighbor should be OK but for a while he can't go upstairs.

Temperature has risen to the mid 60s and the sun has come out so sitting on the porch listening to someone to the west running some sort of noisy machinery.

We have been back on the North Fork for 11 days and opening up the cottages is well underway. :biggrin: Yesterday we mostly took the day off and attended the Spring Concert of- https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d7235d_bf8d86a0997b447abf147f34758ab700~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1813,h_302,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_...

RIP Gregg.

Eastern Easter.

Ex-Rep. Santos asks former colleagues if they would draft expulsion resolution for Cuellar https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4643252-ex-rep-santos-former-colleagues-expulsion-resolution-cuellar/?utm_source=press.coop Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) went after former House colleagues Saturday, a...