So here it is Memorial Day weekend, when the summer season is supposed to begin with picnics, cookouts, and a full menu of outdoor activities, and how did we spend our week? Bundled up in layers trying to keep warm. For a while, as the temperatures drifted down toward the 30s at night, I thought The Bee was bound to have yet another Ram Pasture skating photo on its cover this week.

But somehow nature does seem to be shaking off the cold and moving on toward summer. As Wildlife Rehabilitator Toni Baranowski wrote in her letter to the editor in last week’s Bee, “It’s that time of year again.” Wild babies, such as fawns, squirrels, birds, ducklings, goslings, and possums are being born in our gardens and yards, and we would do best to leave them alone. Enjoy watching them grow, but let Nature take its course.

Toni might have added fox kits to her list since I’ve heard of two fox families now being raised in town. Bee Reporter Susan Coney has been watching a family with three kits living in a den under her barn off Head O’ Meadow Road. “The parents have dragged a deer carcass up to the den entrance, and there are legs and hooves everywhere,” said Susan. She added the kits are growing so fast they are having trouble squeezing through one of their two entrance holes. Maybe that’s because Susan has been feeding the foxes homemade waffles that she tossed in the direction of the hole. “I couldn’t give waffles to the dogs because they’re on a diet,” Susan noted.

This cute picture was taken by Casey Day who has been watching a litter of five fox kits play in front of their den under a shed in Sandy Hook. Casey and her parents, Diane and Lee Day, enjoy watching the pups from their deck off Crows Nest Lane, and they sent the photo to The Bee along with the following comments. “They are adorable, romping and playing… It looks like a bone yard out there. There are bones and feathers all around the shed. We are hopeful now that her babies are eating small animals, the mama fox will take them some place else soon.” The Days say they have opened up their backyard pool and would actually like to use the space for themselves. That is, if the weather ever warms up.

Bob Tendler found a five-dollar bill in front of The Bee office this week. Owners are encourage to line up in front of The Bee anytime during office hours. Give us the serial number, and it’s yours. Otherwise it will be donated to the charity of Bob Tendler’s choice — which just might be Bob Tendler.

Trees and telephone poles around the borough are standing a little straighter this week after the Borough Board of Burgesses ordered the removal last week of about 20 outdated tag sale signs posted throughout the borough.

I knew it was a big day when I walked into the town clerk’s office at Edmond Town Hall on Wednesday. Assistant Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia’s desk had a large clutch of colorful helium balloons floating above it. There were almost enough balloons there to lift the desk off the floor, or at least enough balloons to hoist some unsuspecting hamster. A few inquiries led me to learn that Debbie was celebrating her 40th birthday that day. Happy 40th, Debbie. It’s a milestone.

The Newtown skyline is changing. Steel erectors have assembled the beams that will carry the structural load of the new bank office building now under construction behind Newtown Savings Bank on Main Street. When seen from the rear parking lot of Edmond Town Hall, the view of Trinity Episcopal Church and Newtown Meeting House is decidedly different.

If they hadn’t heard before the beginning of the season, chances are a few young musicians from Newtown haven’t heard the riddle about Carnegie Hall by now. (How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice!). Laura Buchman, Hadrian Kim, Kellie Kravarik, and Bryan Lacouture were all on the roster for a performance at the celebrated New York City venue this week. All four are members of Norwalk Youth Symphony’s Principal Orchestra, a group of nearly 80 musicians from 16 communities in Fairfield and Westchester Counties that performed on May 25.

Jane Sharpe has always been rather stylish, but lately her sartorial sense has gone a little animalistic. Not only has Jane been running around town in the chicken costume to help publicize Tercentennial events, but last Saturday she donned a Clifford the Big Red Dog costume for Elizabeth Mawdsley’s fourth birthday on Great Ring Road. She was even seen attempting to enter a doghouse made for a black lab — she did not fit.

I hope everyone has a nice long holiday weekend. Despite the short week, I’m sure this column will be as full of news as ever, so be sure to …

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