A visit from Jack Wesley

Today is Wednesday, which means Ellen had the afternoon off and Jack Wesley came to sit with me. Ellen had lunch with Katie at the Upper Bend Cafe in Turners Falls, MA, and then they went to see early wildflowers at a place in Sunderland, MA, including bloodroot and trout lily. Meanwhile, Jack and I had a good talk, especially about him and his wife, Julie's, connection with the Guilford Church - very reviving for them -and then John arrived to do a job for us and he joined in the conversation, and Jack asked about John's background, and we heard all about his work with whales and his connection with Roger Payne, who was the original whale song recorder and guru. He also shared a lot about the legal issues around Cynthia's ownership of a share of the land where they live in Westminster - the Ashling Association - which Jack was quite interested in because as a lawyer and then judge, he had been involved in such situations, and immediately grasped the nuances. John had come over to see if a TV signal booster he had bought would make it possible to move the TV from the upstairs bedroom down to the livingroom, which makes a much longer kead-in wire from the antenna, and thus a weaker signal. It worked, and he installed the wire so that now we can move the TV down any time. Which means I can watch TV from my chair and won't have to go upstairs. So, all in all, a good afternoon. Jack got a good picture of John with me.

The Upper Bend Cafe in Turners Falls, MA (photo from the web), where Ellen and Katie had lunch today. They like it a lot.

Trout Lilies.

Julie and Jack Wesley (and me behind Jack), a picture taken in 1993 at Jack's inaugeration ceremony as a judge.

A recent photo of Jack and Julie with Howard Dean, who was Governor of Vermont back in the decade of the 1990's, and ran in the Democratic Primary of 2004 for President. Julie worked as his liaison with the Vermont Legislature when he was Governor, so they know him well.

A picture Jack took of John and me.