Photos and tales of our glorious Green Mountain State adventures.
Tonight, A. and I had different reaction to our latest round of house-hunting. She passed out. I sat down and looked over even more listings and crunched even more numbers. To put it bluntly: the Burlington-area market is nasty and stilted and tough. The feeling I get is that properties are over-valued but the supply/demand […]
House hunt goes very average. Price points are tough in greater Burlington. We saw a half-dozen places in 48 hours that have left us feeling very flat. We’re not afraid of a little elbow grease to get a place in order but it also seems a little ridiculous that something should need $10-20k in immediate […]
When your house is on the market, cook lots of tasty, good-smelling things in the crockpot. Get that thing started in the a.m. and let it run all day. Let people think about how good your house smells in addition to how good it looks. Whatever works, right? currently playing: Sasha & John Digweed “Delta […]
A crazy couple of weeks tearing by. Seems like we just got through the grand’rents’ 50th and then our own kitchen counters ordeal and things just keep grinding on. Aside from the usual hands full action (work for me, dissertation writing for A.), all the other down time is filled with those all-important projects like […]
Apparently I can now add re-laminating kitchen counters to my repertoire: currently playing: Candy Machine “Anderson’s Lookout”
Picked my way through the Breadloaf Wilderness today to climb Mt. Roosevelt with Adam and Sue. Parts of it seemed like an arboreal post-apocalyptic landscape. Other parts were just very much Vermont wilderness. Very enjoyable 6.8 mile round trip. Some highlights: Great hike. What made it challenging wasn’t the distance or the elevation but the […]
currently playing: Front Line Assembly “Justify My Love” >> Jeff Bennett “Involvation”
Spring is settling in and so we’re settling into it. The temps are up to the balmy 60s during the day and even know my WeatherDock is telling me clear and 55. Makes me want to smile. The cat is in every window a lot and seems to want nothing more than to escape and […]
Mt. Worcester, VT. Elevation 3,293 feet; trail ascent 1,790 feet. Trail distance approximately 2.5 miles (one-way). Still some snow up at the top there. currently playing: Roni Size/Reprazent “Change My Life”
What’s up with the recent rash of zombie dreams, eh? Where has that come from? Anyway, with March over, it’s time to start on the revisions on my novel. I took a dive into it last night, plowing through some of the early chapters, my pen scribbling wildly in the margins. The whole time I’d […]