For a Gareth Roberts story, I enjoyed it.

I know. I'm surprised, too.

Me being me, when I get into a pursuit or hobby, I want to write about my doings. This time, it's camping. Check out The Occasional Camper for my outdoorly doings.

Having an odd technology week ( Read more... )

That lightning storm with gobs of hail was a marvelous cap to a day of 90 degree temperatures and nothing but sun.

Just back from a pretty awesome weekend at the Lake Carmi (car-my, not car-mee, we learned) state park up near Enosburg Falls ( Read more... )

I've always wanted a camp, essentially a summer home, but usually with fewer amenities in a fairly rural, often forested and/or mountainous area. I still want one, but looking into homebuying has shown me it's going to be a long time before I could take the easy route of buying an existing camp with a structure, well, etc ( Read more... )

I've gone to the local public library to try my hand at writing there. I've come to find I have a particularly difficult time focusing on that endeavor at home. It's a little better here, but not ideal because there's free wifi. My perfect writing environment is Muddy Waters on Main St, because they have no wifi and all the adjacent networks have ( Read more... )

Today was a manly day. First thing this morning, I helped load my grandmother's furniture into a moving van, as she's going to live with my aunt and her family. I thought I would be expected to help unload as well in Lincoln, but they let me off the hook on that ( Read more... )

Watching a setting sun color rosy clouds over Lake Champlain while enjoying a chocolate-vanilla twist creemee is delightful -- no matter how cool the evening air may be.

Foolishly, while writing at Muddy Waters, I had two cups of coffee last night. That kept me up to all hours, and I do mean all.

First I took advantage of the insomnia to put together a crockpot dish -- my first attempt at such. After that, I mulled around the internet, randomly contacting some people. Then I called up a friend who I remembered is a ( Read more... )