I've been down the newly named Connor Mill Trail a lot this month, going to the site of the Bacon Brook Bridge. On a rainy workday, Bob, Tess, Arlene and I got the logs into place and some decking down. It's wonderfully satisfying to walk on the few feet we have finished. We've had a lot of rain lately and with the water high, I'm glad we put the supports high up on the banks. I'm relieved to see that the design actually works. What do I know from building bridges. Renovation is now happening in two locations. The roofers are about halfway done here at the lake, the floor of the porch is started and the stove is in. At 93 Main, Daryl is replacing the shingles on the back side and Jason has been ripping out old sheetrock.

Alewives will bring 85 people to a forum on a Thursday night. Who knew? The lake association's Mary Ann Hayes put together an educational forum on water quality focusing on alewife stocking. This is the sort of topic that can bring factions of the lake study (limnology) crowd to fisticuffs. The lake is an amazingly complicated system. A little project that began with monthly breakfast discussions in the dining room of the Heron when Bob Fordyce stayed with us had some milestones to celebrate this week, which is why we look so cheery at our monthly breakfast meeting at the Homestead. The project is Bartlett Shore, a retirement facility with some very Unity characteristics (green, integrated with community). I'm a big fan of breakfast meetings. They can only last an hour and you get to eat. Jayne Sullivan was passing by and I got her to take this picture.

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