Another passing

Valerie Ledyard left our area in the 1990s but I am sure many around here still remember her; I know I do. She died in Honolulu on July 21.

Changing his spots. Not.

Scene: Neighbor's back yard, littered with the remains of two large locust trees splintered from Sunday's storm.
Dramatis personae: Your blogger. Neighbor (Life-Long Farmer).
Your blogger: "I really wish you wouldn't use the chain saw by yourself. I worry."
Neighbor: "If I died, they'll all say at the memorial service, he died doing what he loved."
Blogger: "Well, that's true, we would. But I still don't want you using the chain saw by yourself."

Goodbye

Diana Volcheck, who died this past week, was a sweet woman with whom I had the pleasure of working at the Unionville Community Fair. She was quiet and self-effacing, always pleasant but with an old-fashioned sense of reserve; as the British would say, she kept herself to herself.
She was too ill to work at last year's fair -- breast cancer, poor thing -- and we missed her. We sent her flowers, and I'm told she was delighted at how lovely they were.
May she enjoy a restful afterlife.

Infrastructure

A "tennis mom" reports that construction at Unionville High School is proceeding apace. She says every week it seems she has to find a new route into the campus, avoiding cones, barriers, heavy equipment and piles of girders!

Smooth

We appreciate the nice smooth paving job they did on the lane behind the post office and new fire house. Before, it was rutted, rocky and either dusty or muddy. Although you did feel virtuous obeying the one-way arrows and taking the long way back out to Route 82 (instead of sneaking out from the post office lot), you pretty much had to go straight from there to the car wash.
We also noticed that behind the fire house there's a large red contraption, sort of like the trailer part of a tractor-trailer, that is a fire training simulator. I'm sure our dedicated Po-Mar-Lin folks will have fun with that!

Thanks...

To all the generous souls who offered amenities to this blogger while the electric power was out on Sunday and Monday. After much hard work from the PECO tree-clearing guys, the power came back on at 2:30 p.m., to my Immeasurable Relief.

Kennett is Kool

Just did a double-take driving through Kennett. There's a new store at Union and State, a boutique called "Frolic." Except that's not what the sandwich-board sign outside looked like; I thought it said "Erotic."
My first thought was, poor David Miller. Two bad cops, a crooked borough employee and now a sex shop in town.