So much of last week's column pertained to Saturday, Oct. 13, let me just digest the several items:

1) The Morris Farm is offering Beginning Spinning Saturday, Oct. 13, starting 9 a.m. Call the Farm 882-4080 or Web site www.morris farm.org for details and fees.

2) At 9 a.m., the Edgecomb Planning Board is making a double site walk of the proposed assisted living complex as well as a surrounding subdivision to be independently developed, both on the crest of Sheepscot Knoll, a name with unfortunate resonance for many.

3) At approximately the same time, a jolly crew will gather to sweep out the Fort Edgecomb blockhouse, to further ready it for its Bicentennial.

4) Tired from all these exertions? Enjoy the Local Harvest Dinner on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 5:30 p.m. in the Edgecomb Town Hall, compliments of the Midcoast Unitarian/Universalist Fellowship! Call Mimi Moore of MUUF at 882-6299 for details.

And if you still want to avoid cooking supper, get your order in early, deadline Oct. 16, for the Soup Group's first autumn offering! For $6 per serving, $20 for a family of four (additional servings $4), you can reserve a choice of beef stew or pumpkin bisque with individual herb knot bread and apple crisp, to be picked up at the Edgecomb Congregational Church on Cross Point Road at 5 p.m., Sunday Oct. 21. To reserve this take-out supper, call Debbie Boucher at 882-8402 or call the ECC, 882-4060 and leave a message; they will call you back to confirm it, and arrange for delivery if you need it.

Just to remind you, the Soup Group is a cooperative venture by area Sunday schoolchildren to raise money for Heifer International, a charity which buys livestock to be given to needy families in the developing nations of the world.

To turn to news of national import, but with local concern, the National Marine Fisheries Service has agreed to a timeline for designating critical habitat in eight Maine rivers with federally protected Atlantic salmon by the spring of 2009. One of these is the Sheepscot. Since just calling the salmon an 'endangered species' doesn't guarantee its successful recovery, designating an area as 'critical habitat' protects the salmon's natural home as conditions necessary for the recovery to take place. (I am paraphrasing Sean Mahoney of the Conservation Law Foundation.). This additional habitat review for projects along river edges, wetlands, etc. will be required.

Tomatoes are just about done, time to turn our attention to our apples, if the deer haven't gulped them down. 'October's bright blue weather,' quoth the poet at time of writing at 234 River Road, 633-2978, jocam@midcoast.com. This column appears in the Boothbay Register, The Lincoln County News, the Wiscasset Newspaper, and at www.Edgecomb.org.