9-29-25 VERMONT: My reunion is in full swing. My class’ 65 reunion makes most of us 87. About 400 of the original 800 or so matriculands are still alive, and the health status varies from vigorous to doddering. Turning up here are about 55 alums and an equal number of friends, caregivers, children, spouses, widows. Also in attendance are members of the classes that were 5 and 10 years before us, but I don’t know how many of either class. The class from 10 years before our graduation would be about 97.
We drove around a few days ago—we went to Peacham, Danville and Joe’s Pond and found a little color, but not the dramatic foliage that we have seen in other years. We also went to Chelsea and Tunbridge and Royalton, there was no color, but a fair number of trees are still green. The disappointing fall color is due to the summer long drought, it is widely assumed.
The big rain that we had delivered about three inches here and filled the big pond half way up. The upper pond will need lots and lots more precipitation to fill.
The robins are still here. The robin parents raised three broods of three or four chicks for 9-12 total chicks, all a few months old. They are all busy flying around the yard and eating crab apples and whatever else prepping for the big commute in a month of so. Some of the winter birds are arriving, juncos, chickadees, nuthatches and are looking for the feeders that I can’t put out until the bears are sleeping. Lots of warblers are busy in the yard also.
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