Gail Webb (Davis) recently made a quick trip from her home in South Carolina to Portland and northern Maine to visit with an old friend in the Portland area, and then to Aroostook County to visit with her mother in Patten and her brothers, Ronald (Juny) and Roger Webb, here in Island Falls.
While here, the blizzard of the year struck and she spent a few extra days in Portland, enjoying the storm, so her brother says, before flying back to South Carolina.
Due to bad weather conditions in the Bangor area, the minister of the Whittier Congregational Church was unable to make it to Island Falls on Sunday, Feb. 1, to conduct Sunday services. Weather permitting the services will be held as usual on Sunday, Feb. 8.
Sure has been a chore for me this week getting out in frigid weather to make sure my feathered friends had enough to eat. They really go for the peanut butter/lard mixture I give them and are sure happy when they see me out there putting it on all the limbs I can reach and almost before I am in the house it is all gone.
The young man who comes to plow my dooryard is always very careful to get the snow away from the feeders so that I can have easy access to the feeders. And all the birds, big and small, flock to the cedar tree to eat up the mixture they all love.
I still haven’t spied the pair of cardinals, but I hope they are nearby and come when I’m not looking.
I’m hoping that the deer will return for their nightly treat. During the recent storms that we have had, they opted to stay in the woods, I guess, so I haven’t seen them in a couple of days. They used to arrive about 4:30, so I will be on the lookout for them then.
