To the Editor:

I write to correct the record on the matter of the binoculars and the notebook, which recent correspondence has presented in a light I can only call creative. The binoculars were trained on the bay, where a pied-billed grebe had been reported, and the notebook was a bird list, as it has been every summer since 1994. If the list happens to note, in passing, the condition of vegetation visible across the water, that is called thoroughness, and I commend it to all serious observers of nature.

As to the gate: I read with interest that it is infrastructure, and that infrastructure is not correspondence. I agree, and I note only that a man who widens his gate in July is telling the county what he expects of October, and that some of us prefer to let October speak for itself. My own gate is the width it has always been. My cart is the cart my father used. The vines on this side of the bay are very healthy — a condition I report as fact, facts being, as we have all recently been instructed, cumulative.

I will be at the weigh-in on the twenty-second, at ten, having arrived neither early nor late but on time, which is a punctuality that requires no announcement in the newspaper. The scale is recertified, the county is satisfied, and the arithmetic will be public. Nine pounds, for those keeping notebooks of their own, is a figure with a birthday coming.

The scale will mind itself.

C. Bjornstad
Rural Misquah