Category Archives: Life at home

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The Tree Cometh Down-Misses the Bench

We’re in the middle of a severe thunderstorm and Tornado watch here in the Northeast Kingdom (a Tornado Watch in Vermont?) believe it or not and during as the very beginnings of the line of storms preceding a rather large cold front hit the Newport area, we got slammed with a huge amount of wind. [...]

The Mower the Merrier

There’s nothing like an obsession that’s been satisfied. Yesterday was sunny and bright after two days of dark and dreary and lo and behold, the grass was actually tall enough for the first mowing.
Ain’t life just grand though?
And so it was that I happily tossed the gas can into the back of my old Jeep [...]

Dark and Dreary, A New Moon and Related Matter.

Gah! It’s been gray and rainy for the last two days now and it’s enough to drive a semi-sane man into a hot shower on a permanent basis or at least for several hours. Either that or a nap until the sun comes out. Guess I was spoiled by an exceptionally warm April.
On top of [...]

I Just Gotta Mow!

Oh man, I just can’t stand it! With all this unusually gorgeous weather we’re having around here I have this god awful desire to mow the lawn!! I just gotta  mow the damn lawn!!
Okay… alright, I can handle this now. The grass isn’t up yet…it still thinks it’s…well…April fer heavens sake and April in the [...]

Feels Like April in Virginia in Vermont

Good God, it’s 80 degrees out according to my weather sticker in the sidebar or it was when I began writing this post and I have to agree with that. I just came in from working out in the yard with Laurie’s youngest son, Kenny (he and his family live upstairs) and by the time [...]

Crocus Among Us

The warmer weather is officially here! I looked out my front porch window at the old flower bed that the original owners of the house had planted who knows how long ago and lo and behold, there was a crocus (or whatever) in full bloom. Of course I had to take a picture of it [...]

Waiting for Warmer Weather

From a trip I made to Barre, VT last year to take care of some family business. There’s no highway to take you from Newport, VT to Barre so it’s scenic back roads the whole way and I always take my old Kodak digital "point and shoot" with me since it’s best at landscape [...]