Island Falls news: Visitors and goings on

Mr. and Mrs. Brenton Colson, from Hudson, New Hampshire, have been recent guests of his cousin, Charlene Webb and husband, Clayton. While here they toured the area and also took a ride up to Mapleton to visit with a college friend of the Colsons that Brenton hadn’t seen for 28 years. They had a great time reminiscing. Brenton also hadn’t seen Charlene for about 17 years so they had a lot to catch up on. The Colsons have since returned home to New Hampshire.
    Walt and Gwen O’Roak, who will be spending the winter in Camden with son, Jeff and daughters, have been in town for a few days visiting around and checking out their house to have it ready for the winter months.  They hope to return once in awhile to visit during the winter.
Katherine (“Tat”) Springer, who is now in Nebraska with daughter, Anita, has recently under gone heart surgery there and is reported to be doing very well. According to reports from daughter, she will soon be home from the hospital and following recovery there, expects to be home in Island Falls sometime in November.
I have not seen any gold finch at my feeders recently, but I have suddenly been seeing a lot of chickadees and one lone blue jay.  I keep the feeders well supplied with seeds to keep them all happy. The black cat is seen only now and then — think he only comes around to check on the feeders and see if he can snatch one of the birds there.
I have been having a ball watching the deer playing in my back yard, which I am sure they regard as their playground. The other day there were five deer there, three does and two lambs and those lambs were really having a ball. One (the smallest) was running and leaping when one doe and a lamb ran into him and almost knocked him off his feet. He stood there a few minutes to get his bearing then took off again. When it gets colder, I plan to put out some old apples for them.