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2-26-21, 9:22am
I agree with rosa. I think grey would be really nice. IL suggested lacquer, which I could see, but also, have you considered chalk paint? I have an...
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2-25-21, 6:07pm
Thank you for that, rosa. It was just a case of "necessity is the mother of invention." It's amazing how "ambitious" you can be when you've had a few...
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2-25-21, 2:36pm
I think COVID, which is a present reality being conjoined with potential hardships due to the future implications of climate change have forced me to...
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2-25-21, 12:01pm
I agree--it reminds me of the Fountainhead where Rand casts the ambitious, self-serving people as gods and the people in the helping professions as...
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2-25-21, 11:18am
My millennial daughter was ranting about how she thinks her peers are a bunch of babies. She isn't a workaholic, but she is responsible and works...
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2-25-21, 11:15am
That's right... I think most people would prefer to go the route whereby they don't have to ask others to do them a favor.
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2-25-21, 10:54am
My neighbor pointed out to us yesterday that one of our fruit trees is budding. ??? After a week of Vermont weather in the low teens?? And 17mph...
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2-25-21, 10:50am
Yes, that is so nice of you, Tradd. I'm sure it was much appreciated.
When it comes to the inability for IL's do-gooder friends to find people to...
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2-25-21, 10:41am
I'm having a hard time distinguishing between "modest" goals and "reasonable" goals.
Since we're talking about finances (as opposed to other...
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2-23-21, 6:12pm
Beautiful, Kay! I like them both, but the heart one is so pretty!
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2-23-21, 12:41pm
For me it adds data to the answer to my burning question about earth-ceptionalism... If we are only one planet in a whole galaxy, and maybe others,...
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2-23-21, 10:49am
I saw that on TV last week as well, oldhat! It was amazing--I can't wrap my mind around how all that happens. It was so exciting being "in the room"...
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2-23-21, 9:18am
I read in the NYTimes (I think) that an example of this weird way of charging for electricity has resulted in one Texan on a fixed income having to...
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2-22-21, 3:15pm
Thank God for Sundays off!! Yes, I recall that you are correct in terms of the rules. When I was a kid, the lightweights would give up candy but the...
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2-22-21, 3:09pm
I love wood ash to clean the glass on my wood stove--it works like magic! This article mentions it as a silver cleaner, too.
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2-21-21, 5:07pm
I'm also in the "leave it alone" club, for the reasons you mention. I'm glad that a) the neighbors aren't here in the winter to complain, and b)...
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2-21-21, 5:02pm
Wow... I've seen smaller versions of that, but that picture is incredible!! How do that do that without risking the whole infrastructure?? But I'm...
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2-21-21, 3:41pm
DH made a really good vegetarian soup--his first foray into non-meat soups (I make and eat them all the time, but he has always believed if there's...
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2-21-21, 12:58pm
How about Steal This Book by Abby Hoffman?
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2-21-21, 12:51pm
You and your family definitely have a lot of farm-cred, and even when I don't always align with the way you do things, I highly respect it.
I...
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2-21-21, 11:07am
Agreed!!
Thank God it happened after the cold spell. And also, 25 years is a pretty good life for an HVAC system
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2-21-21, 10:29am
In the morning, The Earth is Flat by Thomas Friedman and in the evening, the book that dado recommended, Forest Bathing by M. Amos Clifford.
BTW,...
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2-21-21, 10:13am
I would beg to differ. Maybe they didn't make a mark in your world, but they did in mine.
Look who Thoreau is lined up with on my shelf. :)
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2-20-21, 12:24pm
I'm with IL. I adored American Beauty, but I have no desire to see it again.
I don't read fiction twice, but I've seen movies more than once for...
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2-20-21, 8:38am
I love comforters, but hate duvets. They are such a pain in the butt to put on, and then I find that they shift and look messy or lumpy--but I'm...
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2-20-21, 8:12am
Yes, I have definitely found that to be true!! There have been a number of movies, probably mostly movie musicals that hold no sway for me anymore....
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2-19-21, 5:53pm
https://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/george-saunderss-advice-to-graduates/
I just read this commencement speech delivered by writer...
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2-19-21, 5:36pm
I've found that it's hard to get people to agree on a) food practices and b) gardening practices. Strong opinions are usually involved in any case....
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2-19-21, 5:10pm
I think native plants formed a symbiotic relationship with the rest of the ecosystem, so that takes a bit of time.
According to the National...
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2-19-21, 10:49am
I was watching NOVA the other night and there is a research group that is tampering with one of the enzymes in plants that plays an important role in...
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2-19-21, 10:12am
I agree--I think it's a multi pronged issue. However, the negative impact on the environment of some of the broadly used chemical herbicides and...
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2-19-21, 9:00am
Gosh darn the USMC for souring DH on camping ;)
I'd love to have those experiences!
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2-18-21, 2:57pm
Plumbers are always in huge demand. When my "portly" plumber balked at doing a job in my crawlspace, he told me, "you need a skinny plumber." My...
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2-18-21, 12:25pm
DH wears shorts until Thanksgiving and goes back to them in early spring. He looks weird in pants, but now that we're in VT and he's getting older,...
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2-18-21, 12:17pm
My degree was in Theatre/Drama Criticism, which is, of course, how I wound up in pharmaceutical market research. To be perfectly honest, the skills...
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2-18-21, 12:03pm
I won't go into my "how I met my husband" story, but I will say that about month after we met, I broke up with him and was never going to speak to...
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2-17-21, 10:00pm
OMG, what a great story!! Wow! You have to keep that Cosmo!
DH always bemoans the fact that with COVID you can't meet potential relationships in...
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2-17-21, 3:36pm
It is a really crazy scene in TX. I've been following it on the news, and I can't believe the impact this storm has had on people in the state.
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2-16-21, 7:47pm
I just reduced my 2021 expenses by $685 by cancelling 6 subscriptions I don't use much: business ones like e-fax, and greeting card ones, and a...
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2-16-21, 1:35pm
No! Digits intact. The soup turned out really good, and we'll probably have it for lunch, or as an appetizer for dinner tonight.
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2-16-21, 1:14pm
Went to Mardi Gras once. New Orleans is a spectacle, that's for sure!! What a town!
As for our "Mardi Gras" in preparation for Lent, we're...
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2-16-21, 12:56pm
I'm with you. Too busy reading, probably like you.
By the time I was an adult, I couldn't cook, couldn't garden, couldn't knit, had no...
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2-16-21, 12:46pm
I am on three different Facebook groups that are there solely to post historical images of hometowns: so I belong to my childhood home FB group, my...
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2-16-21, 12:31pm
I wonder if climate change activists have their ladder against the wrong wall--or perhaps we need two ladders.
Bill McKibben built his activism on...
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2-15-21, 10:42pm
Really? Bland? I think it's so elegantly simple. When I was in Japan the breakfast buffet alone was just amazing!!
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2-15-21, 9:24pm
I did 25 miles once but it's been 40 years. :)
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2-15-21, 7:34pm
Your story reminds me of that restaurant scene in L.A. Story when Steve Martin is presented with a smidgen of food with a few garnishes and and...
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2-15-21, 5:05pm
Yeah, we have one "white tablecloth" restaurant here, but DH HATES it. We took a couple of friends there once and the service was bad, and the food...
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2-15-21, 4:51pm
Well, the Montpelier gospel choir online pictures looked appealing, although pretty lily-white. You have a point.
As far as diversity:
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2-15-21, 4:36pm
I think we all would be better off and happier with a better balance of head and hands work. The problem is we have "blue collar" vs "white collar"....
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2-15-21, 4:30pm
Funny you should say that. I really love gospel music--not so much for the piety aspect, but it is just so fun and rockin'. I used to sing in the...
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2-15-21, 3:35pm
Made bone broth so it will be mushroom barley soup today. Got the bones for the first time from a local farm here. I asked for oxtails, and I got a...
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2-15-21, 3:24pm
Yes, to Tybee's point, some people are natural family historians, whether their family appreciates it or not. I am my family's historian and...
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2-15-21, 12:26pm
My son is like DH, very gregarious. In fact just yesterday, DH and I were laughing because I was talking about how I hate it when people who sit next...
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2-14-21, 2:44pm
Wow. When was the last time you had snow?
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2-14-21, 2:01pm
DH and I had one of those older people conversations that seemed to go nowhere. We were trying to figure out how to get the wood stacked, because the...
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2-14-21, 1:54pm
Beautiful song. Truly. The lyrics are amazing.
Reminds me of Eleanor Rigby
Eleanor Rigby
Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has...
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2-14-21, 8:36am
I love his famous quote:"Politics isn't about the weird worship of one dude"
I wish he were more liberal, or at least more moderate, but he does...
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2-13-21, 1:08pm
I read Leaving and Loving the Good Life by Helen Nearing about Scott Nearing's death, and it was an interesting story--a point-by-point account of...
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2-13-21, 10:22am
I'm so impressed with that beautiful crown moulding!! It looks like it should have been there forever. So cool to see your progress. It must be fun...
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