Just one more reason to live in Vermont...The Views!
This is the view from The Brick House, home of the Webb Family of Shelburne, Vermont, founders of the Shelburne Museum and Shelburne Farms. Photos over the next nine days (through Deanfest) will be from my recent visit to The Brick House. Enjoy a little Americana, Vermont style! :-)
Department of Old News: Howard is always first.
ReplyDeleteI saw some posts at the end of the last thread about how cats move. Morticia-cat definitely zooms. Some of that's because her legs are so short that if she slouched she would never get anywhere. But despite the shortness of her legs, she can MOOOVE. I once saw her decide to let a dog chase her. She led him totally full-loop around the back yard before heading up a tree. Despite legs probably four times as long as hers (medium-sized dog), he hadn't a chance.
Reached a point in the grant application I'm working on where I need input from my boss/client to move forward. So that gave me several hours tonight to get started on Sawyer's Wake. Sawyer hasn't managed to throw me out of the book yet. :-D
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ReplyDeleteWow, listener! That looks like the cover of a magazine or a coffee table book. Just lovely.
ReplyDeleteGo Morty Go! :-)
ReplyDeleteOur old kitty, Mittens, lived to be 16 1/2. She was a mother cat one year. She came in for a quick bite one afternoon while her three kittens were out on the back lawn. The neighbour's irish setter came into the yard. She went off after that dog like a bat out of hell, while all fluffed up and even bouncing at the dog *sideways* to make herself look bigger! The dog saw her coming so fearlessly and just turned tail and fled! LOL!
Thanks, Cat! You made my day!
ReplyDeleteThe real thing was even better!
Ahhhhh. First morning of vacation and I slept in! Between responsibilities, the telephone and the heat, I can't remember the last time I slept in! But the morning was cloudy and somewhat cool (helped that I had the fan running up there), and now it is raining nicely, so I don't have to water the gardens!
ReplyDeleteThis afternoon I'm going over to Racine Campaign HQ to help with a mailing. I also need to clean house, pack for the weekend, and tonight Hubby and I go out to dinner and to the theatre with son and his fiancee. Sweet!
Cat stories (second hand) when Edwin and Jane got the cottage in the Catskills, they moved the city menagerie with them, amongst which was a very black cat. The local dog pack made the newcomers' lives miserable for a while. One day the leader of the pack showed up on his own, and was ambling around their front yard. Edwin observed the black cat mount the house and position herself on the roof, and station herself on an overhang above the path. When leader of the pack strolled under her, she dropped onto his back, claws out, and rode him a good ways before dropping off and walking calmly back to the house. That was the last appearance of the LOTP, who doubtless felt that the devil resided thereabouts, lol!
ReplyDeleteI, too, noticed the very nice composition.
ReplyDeleteNice trip to town. Am now restocked. Sad, though: the black cohosh has virtually finished blooming! It shouldn't have even started!! Just one tiny space in deep shade had any at all, and the bloom was right at the top of the flower spike. It'll be gone in a day or two.
ReplyDeleteAnd Cat's right listener: really lovely picture. Maybe you should work for the tourism board?
listener, I thought you said you were on vacation. Vacation=rest, low stress, NO WORK.
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ReplyDeleteOur black cat is very cute and a sweety, and a total wimp.