Today, as most of you know, is the annual meeting of Weston Forest & Trail Association. Before that, at 2 pm, there is a walk at Case Estates (meet at the Community Center). Then at the Scout House across from the Weston Public Library at 4 pm there is the short business meeting of WFTA, and a presentation about Weston’s
Read moreOkay, Weston, I’m trying to get better about work-life balance and not post on weekends but…. TACOS! Yes, tacos are in Lincoln, and while we’ve been unable to annex their awesomeness so far, you can just get in your car or on your bicycle and go get some TACOS at Codman Community Farms! And look, there are even vegan tacos!
Read moreThe following post is a review, or perhaps a rumination, about resident Tom Seeman’s deeply touching memoir “Animals I Want to See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds.” The Owl’s credentials as a book reviewer are slim to none, though I love a good memoir, especially one that features animals and a happy ending. I
Read moreHappy first snow, Weston. As I write this from a couch with the sleepy dog tucked in next to me, our huge family room windows are filled with snowflakes rushing down, layering up, floating and blowing. I’m 10 minutes from wandering out the door where my favorite first snowstorm activity is to stand with my arm raised and just look
Read moreThis morning I asked Alexa to play classic Christmas Carols while I was baking Christmas cookies. Not the carols that put your nerves on edge in the big box stores, but the a capella and soaring carols that make you wish you could really sing. Even the crazy-making “Little Drummer Boy” was amazingly done by whatever choir it was. If
Read moreOn Friday afternoon, I drove down to my hometown of New Canaan, Connecticut. I am very fond of my hometown–and had a wonderful childhood and high school experience before leaving for college. I have to hold a lot of those memories only in my heart because my hometown street is unrecognizable–our medium-sized (in the 1980s at least) house was squashed
Read moreIt’s been a while since the Owl has posted a Sunday Gratitude. It’s not because there hasn’t been gratitude; it’s just that there is too much of it to post. And much of that gratitude has to do with an organization of which I am very clearly fond: Weston Forest and Trail Association. Yesterday was a very good day for
Read more. And now for what some would term a fluff piece. Listen, the Sunday NYT Magazine this is not but would you rather read about a found cat and the importance of good neighbors, or about anti-addiction medication causing women to lose their children’s custody? What a week it’s been in the US so let’s just go to kitties, okay?
Read more. On May 24, the Owl “published” a callout to support Weston Forest & Trail Association, the 501c3 organization that preserves and cares for the open space in our town. That is 90 miles of trails through 2000 acres of Conservation land. The goal was to raise money for trail care– a $5K for WFTA Challenge with National Trails Day
Read moreThe Weston Owl is two. I believe that makes it the cotton anniversary but I cannot imagine how I can work that into a story. I am mostly trying to work in a celebratory cake somehow. Celebratory tacos? Probably celebratory shoveling and laundry. Happy Sunday. For last year’s anniversary (the “paper anniversary”), I reviewed the Owl’s most popular posts of
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