So I'm retiring from LJ, as my "recent" activity suggests. Anywhos, I do have a blog of sorts with blogging sorts and pictures and awesome news of my life:

http://lesvertmonts.blogspot.com/

Seriously awesome news.

To: Old Man Turnpike
Re: Muffins

Beware, Beware the Ides of March. Also, muffin ghosts.

The other night I watched a short documentary on PBS about the Apollo 8 mission to the moon, and man, I just about stopped breathing. Part of the program emphasized just how novel and dangerous a trip like that was in 1968. Apollo 8 was the first time people, actual human people, left earth's orbit to travel elsewhere, an elsewhere 200,000 miles ( Read more... )

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As a special St. Valentine's Day gift from Father God and Mother Nature, Vermont is mostly snowed in today. 12 inches so far and rising. School cancelations today also meant that the Boys & Girls Club was closed as well. I ventured out and took a walk a few minutes ago just to see what I could. Visibility is pretty bad; about a city block in any ( Read more... )

Our MLK Birthday Celebration was in the paper! The weather was not kind, however, and virtually no one showed up to shop and/or party. Too bad for commerce and/or social equality. Incidentally, I was so busy dishing up birthday cake that I failed to get interviewed. Oh, well. Better luck next birthday.

Last weekend we got four inches of snow. This weekend it's 67 degrees and a little bit humid. Vermont is seriously freaking me out.

So I drove 2000 miles since Friday. And I am fatter because of it. Sweet food. Sweet family. Sweet Jake Sikora. All in three days. Now I am back in Vermont and real tired and want to fall down and lie very still. But I have to work.

On the way to Wisconsin I drove into this way fierce storm that made me hate life, and had I not been driving home for ( Read more... )

I realized something today. This is the first oven I've ever had where the self-cleaning function, err....functions. Considering that makes one out of three, maybe it's not a big enough sample size to mean anything. But still, it does make a body right proud.