With the pandemic summer last year, we forgot how busy the last two weeks of July can be. Everyone seems to have a house guest, relatives snugged in or is entertaining other people’s house guests and relatives. Strong cocktails and equally strong WiFi are much in demand.

Tom Hanley reports: “Kathy and Tom have been enjoying an extended stay at the Helm cottage. Recently retired, they moved back to Connecticut after 14 years in Michigan. Megan and husband Jack visited from Portland, Oregon and Sean came from Brooklyn, New York. Sean enjoyed the tennis clinic and round robin doubles. Kathy’s sister Allison and husband Dave are arriving from North Carolina in August. The Hanleys played pickleball with your intrepid correspondent at the high school courts and encourage other JPVIS folks to take up the sport.”

Chris and Debbie Kurz have also had a full house. Debbie reports: “Visitors so far this summer at Winnegance cottage include Janet and Bill Rogers, Annapolis, Maryland; Debby and Steve Jencks, Baltimore, Maryland; Bonnie Grenier, Marblehead, Massachusetts; and our daughter Sarah Kurz with husband Ed Barker and their children, Phoebe and Charlotte Barker, Belmont, Massachusetts.” Curious about what Winnegance means, Debbie explained it’s a “carrying out place,” that there are three in Boothbay Harbor where people could portage and not go out into open ocean, e.g from their cove across to Townsend Gut. She cautions that this is “mildly correct information” but sounds right to me.

Has everyone noticed the osprey nest on the causeway? Dennis Clutter, a friend of Rue Judd’s granddaughter Alston Armstrong, is visiting with Alston from New Orleans. Dennis, an ecologist specializing in birds, said there’s a juvenile on the nest. Your correspondent saw an osprey carrying a large stick to the nest last week, maybe reinforcing it for the teenager in residence. Let’s hope our ospreys are as loyal to their location as the ones on the Southport bridge.

In tennis news, Dave reports that 4 JPVIS ladies travelled to Ocean Point for an inter club round robin social. Thursday the Juniors hosted Ocean Point. Tabor Allen, Emily Fish and her friend Adley, Max Mansourian, Jack Paler, Lucas Swan, Margaret and George Himes, Penelope Thorpe, Avery Khetani, Mia Derezin and Micaela Brown all participated. Amazingly Susan orchestrated what seemed to be an 8-8 tie in matches, or possibly a 9-8 victory for Juniper Point, depending upon which penciled-in scores were counted.

Over 30 of us attended Leslie Lipschitz’s stimulating talk on current economic events last week. While he gave no hard answers or solutions, especially on the question of whether there will be a spike in inflation, there were some good questions and discussions after. You can google Leslie’s recent articles in Barron’s and also articles that he and Susan have co-written.

The JPVIS Tournament begins Sunday, Aug. 1. Sign up with Dave and vie for a chance to have your name inscribed (well, actually painted) on the Community House tennis plaques.

A couple of tidbits: for those who miss the old Video Loft/Harbor Tech services, the library in town has a terrific new copy/scan/fax machine that takes both paper documents and downloads from your phone. Second, if your kids took off with your favorite water bottle or sweatshirt and you haven’t seen it since, look in the Lost and Found box by the piano in the Community House. It was emptied last fall and looks full now.

Don’t forget the annual meeting is this Saturday morning with coffee at 9, business at 9:30. One incentive to come: the printed directory is now available at the Community House. Thank you, Dave Kynor.

Once again, please forgive any misspellings of names. Any error in these columns is on your correspondent. That said, news of all comings and goings is appreciated. annedooley@mindspring.com