Sunday, February 05, 2012

Team Vermont wins National Snow Sculpting contest!


































"Inner Peace"
More Photos here: https://www.facebook.com/usnationals?v=wall
Burlington Free Press article

25 comments:

  1. Team Vermont and Howard Dean are First!!

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  2. Sorry for the delay. When I posted this pack of photos last week, I managed to miss the 5th of February. Skipped right on by it. Fortunately, I noticed the error about 3 minutes after discovering the news about Team Vermont's big win. Voila! New Thread topic! :-D

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  3. Buncha notes on the last thread. :-)

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  4. Bill Thomasson2/05/2012 11:40:00 AM

    Re Alan's comment at the end of the last thread: Caucus turnout is always low, even in Iowa. I believe only about 10% of the people who vote in the Texas primary attend the caucuses that evening. The key to victory in a caucus state is to actually get your supporters to the caucuses. That's why the traditional wisdom has been that support from established in-state party organizations is crucial, though that no longer seems to be so true.

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  5. That IS a fine snow sculpture, listener! Thanks for sharing, and congrats to Team Vermont!

    Amazingly, after needing two crutches to get to bed last night, I woke able to walk more or less painlessly without any; but I'm still a trifle nervous about it and intend to keep a crutch or cane handy. Beautiful day, but pruning and much of anything else risking further injury IS going to wait. I will go out and buy a new pair of work boots at a place that specializes in remainders, and come home with pizza for dinner. (I figure pizza includes two of the basic food groups: round and triangular.)

    TTFN

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  6. Bill Thomasson2/05/2012 05:19:00 PM

    Great news about the quick vanishment of the pain. But you're right to be careful for a while.

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  7. Sounds like Fate at work.

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  8. Pizza *IS* a basic food group.

    Good Lord, Alan. I go away for a couple of days and come back to find you on crutches? Guess it just goes to show, bloggers need to stick close to the blog, or else terrible things happen. Mea culpa!.

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  9. And, yes, that is a really neat sculpture.

    Go Team Vermont!

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  10. Hey, Cat! Welcome home!

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  11. Hi Puddle. How's by you?

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  12. You'll be happy to know your Cat is hard at work on more quizzes; a couple on my favorite Dickens novel and one of my two favorite novels of all time, Bleak House as well as more on Engelbert's music. It's a hard job, but somebody has to do it. I console myself with the knowledge that I'm performing a service to Society.

    LOL

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  13. http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/404245_317397841645157_162809620437314_985438_813077651_n.jpg

    Before the prize, the hard work. . . . I sometimes wonder why so many think the hard work part is skippable?

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  14. Great, lol! Got TWO, count 'em 2, naps today. Good sized, usable, naps. Finally feel mostly caught up on ma sleep. And done without the help of either naproxen or acetaminophen. . . .

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  15. Naps are definitely good.

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  16. Sheep-herding bunny:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/03/sheep-herding-bunny_n_1252145.html?ref=mostpopular

    Might it be a distant or better behaved relative of this other famous bunny?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

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  17. You being temporarily absent has no relationship to my more or less constant whining, Cat! So rest easy. I presume your sister and others in the family are now resting easy too.

    Hmmmmm.....should I continue reading some Darkover short stories? Or see the movie of The Mouse That Roared? Or both? Both, yes. Finish one Darkover short story, then to the movies; there is time enough.

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  18. Thing is the hard work part is, well, hard, and often not much fun, depending on the nature of the work and on the attitude of the worker(s).

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  19. Had some difficulty playing that first video, but I could clearly see the bunny chasing the sheep. What a hoot!

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  20. Thankful's bunny herds their cats. . . . Cats just hide when the bunny's out.

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  21. Obviously, we need a bunny to herd our kitties. LOL Never knew bunnies were so clever.

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  22. The rabbits hereabouts have remained prolific despite the best attempts of the local red and gray fox tribes. They are incredibly smart and even faster. ;-)

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  23. Had a full day! We had VT*Grand most of the day, then watched Downton Abbey, then I got a photo montage completed for Mah*Sweetie to hang in his new office tomorrow. Off to sleep go I!

    On Monday, I have a print order to fill and deliver. Then four (4, count 'em!) Library Journals to preuse. I am hopeful that by at least the end of this week I can get back to the book illustrations. Mah*Sweetie and I actually had to take turns taking naps while Grand was here! She didn't need one at all. LOL! But WOW has she taken a growth spurt! Age 4 and she did a 100 piece puzzle in less than a half hour! She has a great eye and mind for it, would pick up a piece and as I'm thinking "that won't fit there" she'd rotate it 270 degrees and pop it in place! Again and again. We took her to the Library to see a music concert, and she enjoyed it in spurts. In between spurts she would venture into the children's room and put on a little puppet play with another 4 year old she'd just met. She was socially very adept and kind to the youngers around her, and I saw older kids being nice to her too. Lots of fun, creative games all afternoon. My throat began to relapse just a little, though. I'm going to sleep all I can tonight. XOXOXXX

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