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R.I.P. Jimmy and condolences Brent. He sounded like a great friend, which can be rare.

RIP to beautiful Sophie. Condolences to you and Yumi, Shelly.

See what happens when you are not paying attention. You miss all the fun stuff, like using the word cunt™.

Wasn’t me. I have a Rega.

Happy Birthday, Antonio!

A big congrat (1 each) to both you and Kathleen!

Me: Looking at plans for an ark.

Happy Birthday, Birgir!

Happy Birthday, Jose!

Happy Birthday, Greg!

A belated Happy Birthday, Justin!

Yesterday we visited Sterling Pond, which just so happens to be the highest elevation trout pond in Vermont

Sorry I missed this. The master touch comes with these Weber Charcoal baskets which makes it easy to set up dual zone cooking. They also make a cone shaped heat deflector for more options. I also forgot to mention that Peter is in his last week of his wilderness EMT course and he is having a blast He is in the orange sweatshirt.

Happy 60th Birthday, Kerry! and welcome to the 60’s.

Finished putting the new grill together I owned two original Weber kettles previously and loved how they performed as grills. But the original had two major problems. First, the ash collection was simply awful it was exposed and removing the ash tray was an ordeal. No longer … Both the original premium and the Master-touch have the new and improved ah collection. The second problem was adding charcoal during the cook as you had to lift up the main cooking grill. That is no longer a problem on the Master-touch with side panel hinged grates It also has the gourmet BBq system that allows you to remove the center section and replace it with another option such as the griddle a wok, pizza stone or sear grate it also has a removable heating grate So all-in-all it is a pretty nice upgrade from the last Weber kettle I used.

We hiked a little higher than usual to the summit of Mt. Abraham.

Yeah I gave up on Drobo about 15 years ago. I could never get it to work the way I wanted to so when it came time to upgrade I went with a Synology NAS and never looked back.

Don’t tell it to me, tell it to the snake.

It was a rainy day today so rather than hike we saw a couple of historic sites in Vermont. First we saw Billings Farm and Museum and the Calvin Coolidge Birthplace and Home . Learned a hell-of-a-lot about Coolidge and was impressed.

I had a lot of snakes and lizards growing up but my favorite was a beautiful California King Snake whose favorite activity was me carrying her around draped across my shoulders. She was very content to just chill there for hours.

You nailed it. A pretty adult milksnake with a very chill attitude.

Was straightening up our upstairs garage and I came across this trespasser trying to be inconspicuous

Condolences, Todd. RIP “Aunty Joyce”

Yesterday we took a day trip to Montreal so I could practice not speaking French. Visited the Archaeology Museum, had a nice lunch at an Asian bistro and walked around the city for a few hours.

Not that I am aware of, though I’m not so sure about mushrooms.