The leaves are appearing, the weather’s getting warmer, and that all-Canadian harbinger of summer is here – Victoria Day. (It almost lands on May 24 this year.)

In Meaford, that means one thing…the Net Shed opens for the season tomorrow with the first weekend sale of used books. For a free-will donation, you can find as many used books as you can read while supporting Meaford’s Friends of the Library. And Saturday will see the annual sale of perennial plants at the Net Shed. The late 1800s heritage building is a relic of Meaford’s fishing heyday, when it was a net-making, repair and storage building, and the present owners have kept it an active part of the community by allowing the Friends of the Library to use it for their weekend fundraising book sales.

Weekend book sale at Meaford Net Shed (photo www.simcoe.com)

Now, lest you think a celebration of May 24 with a book sale means things are tooo quiet ’round here, you can also take in the Riverside Hall Annual Yard Sale and a fundraising barbecue for the ever popular Great Meaford Duck Race.