While relaxing (AKA avoiding work) just now, I was investigating what Wikipedia had to say about Vermont. I stumbled across the following, which features our friend, Gov. Dean The First:
Actually I started checking the number of Interstate highways in Vermont, wondering from the title of this thread if there might be but one, and things flowed from there.
Who needs a gym, indeed? Just read an article about the Obama administration's plan for a healthier America -- one of the points is more sidewalks so people can walk where they need to go. But not everybody needs sidewalks to be able to walk.
Sweet day here: never reached 80. Terrific working weather, not that I did that much physically. More a bookkeeping day, but relief that that's done. Bit of garden work at dusk. And have to say that the garden Elmer 'dozed, is really beginning to look good. Very different from the old one, but it's starting to grow on me. For reasons that I don't understand, this is the first time in ten years that the daylilies have gotten as far as blossoming. Usually the deer have chewed them down to stubs before that happens. I'm delighted!!
We have two: I89 which runs from NW Vt at the Canadian border to Hanover, NH and I91, which runs from NE VT at the Canadian border down to W. MA. I was referring to "the interstate system" as a whole. But everyone here just calls it "the Interstate." The only place in the state where they need to be more specific is in the Norwich/Hanover area, since the two intersect there. :-)
I've seen that whale fossil! It's less than a half hour from my house. And I proudly remember when Howard Dean made it official. My backyard was once part of the Champlain Sea, and it's nice to imagine that maybe whales played there once. BTW, the pronunciation of Charlotte is not the same as for Charlottesville, VA. The French influence places the accent on the second syllable.
Today we are reminded of the whales every time we pass the Ben & Jerry's HQ along the interstate near Exit 12 on I89N: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=796304&site_id=1#import
Hearty thanksgivings for the traveling mercies!! ♥
Didn't discover until I saw the paper this morning (at the hotel) that Wiener resigned. Have to add that I am proud of his wife for having a spine and not standing next to him when he announced it. That's a hard thing whichever way you decide to do it, but I'm glad she got to do it her own way and didn't feel she had to follow what others have done.
Okay, I'm off to journal a bit then get some sleep for the big day tomorrow.
In all the prep and planning and driving and meeting-having these last few days, it hadn't dawned on me until tonight that I'm going to see a whole slew of my own and my husband's relatives tomorrow...many of whom I haven't seen in a really long time.
That should be...interesting. Keep those mercies a-comin' my way, please! 8-)
Oh, add to the above that since they didn't RSVP to me, I have no idear which of them I'm going to see and which I'm not. Adds to the...experience. ;-)
Patty doesn't believe in walking on the sidewalk. She walks, and takes me in my wheelchair, smack down the middle of the street. Even on a residential street that scares me silly, especially at dusk. And she makes fun of me for demanding we go on the sidewalk. If there isn't one, that's one thing. But if there is, you ought to use it!
Howard's the one we've been waiting for.
ReplyDeleteAnd listener, I speck you get a good many "lucky shots" ~~ who said, Luck is the residue of hard work? And this case, of a very good eye. . . .
While relaxing (AKA avoiding work) just now, I was investigating what Wikipedia had to say about Vermont. I stumbled across the following, which features our friend, Gov. Dean The First:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.uvm.edu/whale/state_fossil.html
Actually I started checking the number of Interstate highways in Vermont, wondering from the title of this thread if there might be but one, and things flowed from there.
ReplyDeleteAlready walked da puppy three times. Who needs a gym?
ReplyDeleteWho needs a gym, indeed? Just read an article about the Obama administration's plan for a healthier America -- one of the points is more sidewalks so people can walk where they need to go. But not everybody needs sidewalks to be able to walk.
ReplyDeleteLol! I'd be in trubble if I needed sidewalks -- sixty mile round trip to sidewalks, here.
ReplyDeleteSweet day here: never reached 80. Terrific working weather, not that I did that much physically. More a bookkeeping day, but relief that that's done. Bit of garden work at dusk. And have to say that the garden Elmer 'dozed, is really beginning to look good. Very different from the old one, but it's starting to grow on me. For reasons that I don't understand, this is the first time in ten years that the daylilies have gotten as far as blossoming. Usually the deer have chewed them down to stubs before that happens. I'm delighted!!
ReplyDeleteWe have two: I89 which runs from NW Vt at the Canadian border to Hanover, NH and I91, which runs from NE VT at the Canadian border down to W. MA. I was referring to "the interstate system" as a whole. But everyone here just calls it "the Interstate." The only place in the state where they need to be more specific is in the Norwich/Hanover area, since the two intersect there. :-)
ReplyDeleteI've seen that whale fossil! It's less than a half hour from my house. And I proudly remember when Howard Dean made it official. My backyard was once part of the Champlain Sea, and it's nice to imagine that maybe whales played there once. BTW, the pronunciation of Charlotte is not the same as for Charlottesville, VA. The French influence places the accent on the second syllable.
Today we are reminded of the whales every time we pass the Ben & Jerry's HQ along the interstate near Exit 12 on I89N:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=796304&site_id=1#import
ROFL! That'll never fly in VT! You can't get there from here with or without a sidewalk! Side of what?? LOL!
ReplyDeleteSidewalks make walking easier and safer though, Bill.
ReplyDeleteHearty thanksgivings for the traveling mercies!! ♥
ReplyDeleteDidn't discover until I saw the paper this morning (at the hotel) that Wiener resigned.
Have to add that I am proud of his wife for having a spine and not standing next to him when he announced it. That's a hard thing whichever way you decide to do it, but I'm glad she got to do it her own way and didn't feel she had to follow what others have done.
Okay, I'm off to journal a bit then get some sleep for the big day tomorrow.
In all the prep and planning and driving and meeting-having these last few days, it hadn't dawned on me until tonight that I'm going to see a whole slew of my own and my husband's relatives tomorrow...many of whom I haven't seen in a really long time.
That should be...interesting. Keep those mercies a-comin' my way, please! 8-)
Oh, add to the above that since they didn't RSVP to me, I have no idear which of them I'm going to see and which I'm not. Adds to the...experience. ;-)
ReplyDeletePatty doesn't believe in walking on the sidewalk. She walks, and takes me in my wheelchair, smack down the middle of the street. Even on a residential street that scares me silly, especially at dusk. And she makes fun of me for demanding we go on the sidewalk. If there isn't one, that's one thing. But if there is, you ought to use it!
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