Vermont Country Store Details

Vermont Country Store Details
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I noticed this thermometer (and the notes attached) just now at my local country store--the Adamant Co-op--where I'm hanging out on the porch, writing a letter and sipping coffee.

The yellow note on the thermometer says: "If this reads above 65 degrees you put too much wood in the stove."

The green one reads: "OR IT'S SUMMER."

The woodstove is not fired up today.

But soon.

Dinner

Dinner
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Not quite as tasty if you haven't just climbed Mt. Rainier.

But eating it from a bowl (rather than from the foil bag you've just cooked it in) helps.

Parents Say the Darndest Things

(Email exchange with my 85-year-old father)

From: Me
To: My Dad

(Re: Euphemism Generator website)Dad, This is a useful website on those days when you can't find just the right euphemism for a given situation....

_______________________

From: My Dad
To: Me

Thanks. I read about 50 of them, and none seemed to fit what i might need at any foreseeable time. However, you might enjoy what i found last week when I tried to find a work written by Benjamin Britten. The work turns out to be named "Hymn to the Virgin". Some very young (I guess) lady posted a note on the site I found which read something like: "I was humping real hard yesterday and after I was done, I found some blood. Does this mean my hymn is broken?" She needs a spelling lesson. Dad

Battling the Movie Crowds in Montpelier

Battling the crowds
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Montpelier on a Saturday night! We went to see "Extract" at the local 5-plex and the guy in the ticket booth didn't even recognize the title when we tried to pay. I guess Montpelier just loves its Jason Batemans and its Gene Simmonses. He said, ironically. (Two other people were in the audience for this one tonight.)

Falafel Spam Plea Non-Sequitur

Here writes Lady Amanda Williams suffering from canceruous ailment.I have a proposal of Five Million Great Britis Pounds which i want you to use to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged individuals as i have no childand my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons,i do want the money to be misused.Kindly contact me via my personal email for further enquiry. email address: am.williams05@gmail.com

(Falafel much like this one will be available tomorrow, Sunday 9/6/9, at the Randolph Vermont New World Festival, an all-day, all-weather festival of Celtic and French Canadian music and dance performed on five stages simultaneously. Falafel proceeds benefit my kids' school scholarship fund. Come early, eat up.)

Templeton Farm, 6AM VT

Snapshot taken on the way to work.

Morning, VT
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TEAGUE

TEAGUE
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Teague got into something today. Chicken scratch? He had a bit of a problem, but doing better now, we think.

He makes for a beautiful radiograph, I think.