Have any of you been to Vermont?  I want to go there, as I live pretty close now, but have never been there...

I need a good "excuse" to go - a Destination.  So far the only place I know if is the Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory... but there's got to be other stuff in Vermont, right?

Ideas??

Whoo hoo.  Nearing the end of the second quarter and the Pats are leading 21 to 3.

Yay!  Go Go my adopted home team!! :)

UPDATE:  Uh oh.  It's 4 mins into the 2nd half and the Colts are catching up....  Pats are still in the lead tho - 21 to 13.

UPDATE AGAIN:  Oh.  We lost.  Booooo. 
It was a really good game though.  I know many Pats fans will ( Read more... )

Last night I met some friends for bowling. When I got there I found out that it wasn't ten-pin bowling - or "big ball bowling" as they call it - it was duckpin bowling.

Duckpin bowling is popular around here, and I've heard people talk about it for years, but I'd never been ('til last night, that is)...

The Equipment:
The balls remind me of ( Read more... )

Living in New England, Lesson 45 - Furniture LimitationsHouses here are old. That means that often ceilings are low, stairways are windy and doorways are narrow ( Read more... )