I've checked with the registrar. Everyone who is on the waiting list is in. The deadline for preference for FSGW members has expired. There is even still room for another couple of dozen. (Though applications are still coming in, so don't procrastinate if you want to come and haven't sent in your application.)

Nobody needs to bring peanut butter and bread (unless you LIKE peanut butter and bread so much you feel you need your own private stash--but there's usually peanut butter and bread AND jelly out on the food table at almost all times.)

If anyone is not on the meal plan because they have a special diet they don't think can be accommodated, well and good. But anyone who has subscribed to Debby McClatchy's catering will not be disappointed. There is food for all.

Climate update: storms Dennis and Floyd have filled our streams but not to the point of serious flooding. The drought is over (or at least stayed). We've had the first few nippy nights of Fall (lows into the 40s). As time gets closer, I'll try to post an update on weather.

--Charlie Baum