Buck & Doe

Congratulations to Amy McKenna, new president of the Buck & Doe Trust, a conservation group based in Unionville. Amy, a real-estate agent with Country Properties, takes over the position from Terry Corkran. Other officers are Joe Huston, vice president; Nina Seder-Burnaford, secretary; and John Goodall, treasurer. Board members are Billie Bailkin, Liz Bailey, Gus Brown, Richard Buchanan, Terry Corkran, Jeb Hannum, Anthony Jenks, Brendan Miney, Joe Nolan, Jamie O'Rourke, Maria Pfeffer, Kate Poole, Soctt Richard, Bill Rubin, Janet Sidewater, Ann Givens Sinclair, Susannah Small and Pam Smyth.

Thouron Road

I was getting concerned.
8:15 p.m. had rolled around, the West Marlborough supervisors were zipping through the agenda of their monthly meeting -- but nothing had happened that was remotely Tilda-worthy.
With a worried face I turned to my neighbor and pointed to the blank page in my notebook.
Then, as has happened so many times before, Richard Hayne came to the rescue.
Township roadmaster Hugh Lofting said that because of the extensive construction that Mr. Hayne has done on Doe Run Farm, Thouron Road has been "pretty much destroyed from Route 841 to the Thouron driveway and beyond."
Mr. Hayne has agreed to repair the road at his own expense, and Mr. Lofting assured the residents that "we'll be watching over that."

Thanks again!

In last week's column I was applauding the PECO workers for restoring our electricity after that awful crash on Route 841 in West Marlborough on Easter evening, and the second and more important paragraph of the item got dropped (no biggie, it happens), so here it is:
"Even louder cheers are due to all of the rescue volunteers who dropped everything, gave up their Easter dinner and family time and rushed off to help with the rescue and clean-up efforts. We are so lucky to have such selfless folks in our community."

Grooming

Most people talked about the bride's stunning gown, the guests' creative hats, the awe-inspiring setting ... but not from where I was sitting. I watched the royal wedding with a friend who has two horses, and her favorite part of the whole early-morning affair came when the royal party rode to Buckingham Palace in horse-drawn carriages.
The caffeine kicked in and she sat upright on the edge of the sofa.
"Those horses are beyond spotless," she said. "And look at the tack! It's perfectly polished. The hours that must have taken!"
She noted that the horses' manes were "perfectly pulled" and "every hoof" was polished.
However, horses will be horses: one of them got spooked by the noisy crowds and commotion and threw its rider.
"Oh, thank God it wasn't me -- for a change," said my pal.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!

A friend laments: "Paid a guy to install a post-and-board fence around the lovely shade tree in one pasture to keep horses from messing with it. Another pasture has lots of [lesser-quality] trees with nibble and rub marks all over the trunks. So guess which pasture just had a tree fall down, destroying the fence in the process? And the moral of this story is.......?"
It's too bad; it was a pretty -- but, as she discovered, rotten -- cherry tree.

Remodeling

Hugh Lofting Timber Framing in Kennett Square got a nice mention in the remodeling industry website http://www.daily5remodel.com/ for the work it did on the Dansko headquarters and store in Jennersville. You can read about it and see some cool photos by visiting the website and navigating to the April 22 edition.
(Thanks to a Lofting family member for the tip!)

Estate of the week

Dick and Sheila Sanford have put their 43-acre Brinton's Bridge Road estate up for sale, with an asking price of $12.9 million. The 23-room main house is 16,000 square feet and includes six bedrooms, a pub, a great hall and a library -- not surprisingly, it has been the site of many large charity functions.

According to his website, Mr. Sanford is a "serial entrepreneur and philanthropist" who founded Intelligent Electronics. In 1998 started Operation Warm, a nationwide charity that provides brand-new winter coats to children living in poverty.
(Thanks to Prudential Fox & Roach Realtor Shelley Mincer for the tip!)