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One of the NoFo's nicer restaurants has just opened a grab and go shop near here which features frozen pot pies handmade in the restaurant. Also soups and such.

Mrs.V has picked up a chicken pie and some seafood bisque for dinner.

Mrs. V's cousins who own the cottage to our left have arrived to open up for the season. They are the brothers of Mrs. V's cousin who lives down by the bay. Meanwhile in the DC area, that cousin's doctors are finding more medical issues. That is so often the case once you enter a hospital in my expe...

Turtle visitor to our cottage today.

A good thing about heavy rain, no lawnmowers!

Rain!

The North Fork had 5" to 6" of rain overnight. Flooding reported in some places. A few power outages reported.

Rain continues today into this evening.

Also windy.

Our cats are not asking to go out on the porches this morning.

They are all wearing those satanist lapel pins.

We have been expecting Mrs.V's cousin (who lives in the DC area and has a cottage on the Circle) and her husband to arrive this coming Monday to start their North Fork season. Cousin just called. She is in the hospital. Heart problems. :eek: Not coming Monday. Looks like the doctors suspect cardiomy...

A bit to the west a large commercial size mower is making a huge noise first thing in the morning.

:eek: Covid has struck the early music community on the North Fork! Mrs. V's recorder rehearsal was canceled yesterday because one of the players tested positive. Now another rehearsal has been canceled due to another player testing positive. Local early music folk tend to be elderly. That may have ...

First the duck farms closed (1 left), then the potato farms closed (1 left) and now the last cobbler shop is closing. :( Last of the East End’s cobblers planning to close https://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2024/05/120248/last-of-the-east-ends-cobblers-planning-to-close/ Earlier this year, F...

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.