Tag Archives: snow-days

Here’s to the Holidays

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Kirk M

Here’s to the holidays, with lights all aglow. Makes me all Christmassy, doncha’ know. Now I’d love to stay here, and just be mel-low. But I’m headed outside, to shovel the snow.

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Indoor Plumbing Appreciation

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Kirk M

An excellent reason to appreciate indoor plumbing. Continue reading →

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General Announcments

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Kirk M

Seems like every time I seem to be ready to sit down and write a bunch of stuff something always gets in the way. This time, as usual, it was a combination of a flare up (disabilities, three each, the … Continue reading →

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A 2 Day Snowstorm-Minding the Shop

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Kirk M

The Northeast Kingdom is looking forward to a two day snow storm beginning around 10:00 AM this morning and guess where my better half is right now? About 2 hours south of here attempting to take care of the usual … Continue reading →

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Another Snow Storm. Think We’ve had Enough?

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Kirk M

What you don’t see in the above photo is that the paths around the snow mound are the top of a solid base about a foot thick  packed down by previous freezing rain and ice storms that came in between … Continue reading →

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The Vermont Weather Shield

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Kirk M

Vermont has it’s own “weather shield” that becomes active during bad storms so that folks can get out and about before the weather gets rough again. Don’t tell anyone…it’s a local secret. Continue reading →

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And the snow blower is back!

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Kirk M

Blessed be the fix-it shop that will take the time to work on a neighbor’s snow blower on a Saturday when there’s a snow storm due on Sunday. He didn’t even charge me for today’s labor which is good since … Continue reading →

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And now the snow blower is busted

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Kirk M

In light of my previous post I’ll just add that shortly after I published that post I bundled up and went out to the garage to fire up our old (newly rebuilt last year) snow blower and didn’t get one … Continue reading →

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