Tag Archives: snow-days

Here’s to the Holidays

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

An excellent reason to appreciate indoor plumbing.

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General Announcments

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 really bad one), a snow storm with all the wonderful cleaning up thereafter and the [...]

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A 2 Day Snowstorm-Minding the Shop

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 quilt shop business that springs up around this time of the year (first sign that [...]

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Another Snow Storm. Think We’ve had Enough?

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 the many regular snow storms we’ve had so far this winter. It even held the [...]

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The Vermont Weather Shield

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.

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And the snow blower is back!

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 we’re counting pennies right now. We’ll have to invite him over for dinner sometime soon.
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And now the snow blower is busted

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 foot into the snow when I realized that the auger was not moving. Too make [...]

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