It's been awhile since I blogged here. So much has happened. I am delighted to say that we bought 25 acres in Maine, and we plan on plugging away at the things that need doing, until 2021, when Rich is old enough to get his full-boat Social Security. Then we'll be selling this place, in Vermont.
Vermont has not been my home (in my heart) for a very long time. The cidiots have taken it over and have the worst set of mixed up priorities I think I've ever seen. It is a place of deep delusion and illusion. The rivers and lake are all kinds of polluted, because the state did not step in and do proper conservation soon enough. It would be easy enough to pay someone to do accountability, concerning farms and non-complying camps, but instead of this, they just keep paying millions to have a consultant tell them the same thing, over and over. Yes, you need to stop dumping sewage in the lake. No brainer, right? You'd think, wouldn't you? Instead, they worry about their air, that they share, with every other state in the world. The waterways are the biggest problem they've got here, and the locals know the score, so their kids leave in droves, when they graduate. Instead of fixing the problem, the state is offering incentives to those who don't know, to come live and work here.
Did I say it's a place of complete delusion and illusion, now? Sad.
Anyhow, we won't be here much longer, and isn't that a good thing?
I have never liked Middlebury much, either, I only moved here to be with Rich.
It's got some significant entitlement going on. The whole state thing of not enough common sense definitely trickles down to this town. Instead of worrying about getting the lakeside farms and camps, compliant, they are now outlawing single-use plastic bags. There was a write up by the local rag, about these women, who are making totes (from fabric), to encourage peeps to not get plastic bags (like they even have a choice now, right?) and to use (and pay for) one of their 'home-made' totes. Meanwhile, the world is staggering under the load of used clothing going into the ground and the ocean. From what I read, the world makes enough clothing waste, to fill a 10-foot high mound, every second. If these ladies really want to help, why aren't they making these totes from old clothes (vs. fabric that is killing the environment, to make)? It begs the question, doesn't it?
Did I say that this state is a place of complete delusion and illusion, now? Double sad.
Anyhow, on a brighter note, I will be trying to spend as much of the summer over on The Lot, as I can. I am taking a page from the very elitist Hammacher Schlammer and The Sharper Image, and naming everything "The" something. lol. (The Lot, The Privy, The Bathhouse, The Laundry, The Wild Food Trail, The Woodpile, etc. etc.) Cracks me up to thumb a nose at blatant Elitism!
We have a gas generator, but we also have portable solar coming. I really don't want to be 'one of those neighbors', who moves in and destroys all the quiet.
I will be trying to use thermo-refrigeration. I have heard and read, that you can bury a plastic bucket, with about 2-3 inches of sand in it, in the very cold spring, up to the first ring of the bucket and place another bucket (with lid) on top of that one, to act as a refrigerator. I will be trying this, first thing, as even though the camper refrigerator works, I have read that the alcohol refrigerants, don't work in high heat, so I probably won't bother with it. I also don't want to use precious solar power on it. If my thermo option doesn't work, I'll go to using the energy star dorm one, that we've got. We'll just have to see how I make out. Buckets are cheap! (One good thing about here, is that you can still get them, if you pay attention, at the CoOp, small blessings, but we'll take em').
Anyhow, before that, we've got to build a potty box, a mailbox, and a bathbox, probably not in that order, but hoping we can get to it, sose we can hit the ground running!
Here's to hoping! :)
These are two photos direct from Google Earth. The first is where we live now.......pretty congested, hey? The second is our lot, with the camper, and the dug well (last years big project), slightly visible.
Vermont has not been my home (in my heart) for a very long time. The cidiots have taken it over and have the worst set of mixed up priorities I think I've ever seen. It is a place of deep delusion and illusion. The rivers and lake are all kinds of polluted, because the state did not step in and do proper conservation soon enough. It would be easy enough to pay someone to do accountability, concerning farms and non-complying camps, but instead of this, they just keep paying millions to have a consultant tell them the same thing, over and over. Yes, you need to stop dumping sewage in the lake. No brainer, right? You'd think, wouldn't you? Instead, they worry about their air, that they share, with every other state in the world. The waterways are the biggest problem they've got here, and the locals know the score, so their kids leave in droves, when they graduate. Instead of fixing the problem, the state is offering incentives to those who don't know, to come live and work here.
Did I say it's a place of complete delusion and illusion, now? Sad.
Anyhow, we won't be here much longer, and isn't that a good thing?
I have never liked Middlebury much, either, I only moved here to be with Rich.
It's got some significant entitlement going on. The whole state thing of not enough common sense definitely trickles down to this town. Instead of worrying about getting the lakeside farms and camps, compliant, they are now outlawing single-use plastic bags. There was a write up by the local rag, about these women, who are making totes (from fabric), to encourage peeps to not get plastic bags (like they even have a choice now, right?) and to use (and pay for) one of their 'home-made' totes. Meanwhile, the world is staggering under the load of used clothing going into the ground and the ocean. From what I read, the world makes enough clothing waste, to fill a 10-foot high mound, every second. If these ladies really want to help, why aren't they making these totes from old clothes (vs. fabric that is killing the environment, to make)? It begs the question, doesn't it?
Did I say that this state is a place of complete delusion and illusion, now? Double sad.
Anyhow, on a brighter note, I will be trying to spend as much of the summer over on The Lot, as I can. I am taking a page from the very elitist Hammacher Schlammer and The Sharper Image, and naming everything "The" something. lol. (The Lot, The Privy, The Bathhouse, The Laundry, The Wild Food Trail, The Woodpile, etc. etc.) Cracks me up to thumb a nose at blatant Elitism!
We have a gas generator, but we also have portable solar coming. I really don't want to be 'one of those neighbors', who moves in and destroys all the quiet.
I will be trying to use thermo-refrigeration. I have heard and read, that you can bury a plastic bucket, with about 2-3 inches of sand in it, in the very cold spring, up to the first ring of the bucket and place another bucket (with lid) on top of that one, to act as a refrigerator. I will be trying this, first thing, as even though the camper refrigerator works, I have read that the alcohol refrigerants, don't work in high heat, so I probably won't bother with it. I also don't want to use precious solar power on it. If my thermo option doesn't work, I'll go to using the energy star dorm one, that we've got. We'll just have to see how I make out. Buckets are cheap! (One good thing about here, is that you can still get them, if you pay attention, at the CoOp, small blessings, but we'll take em').
Anyhow, before that, we've got to build a potty box, a mailbox, and a bathbox, probably not in that order, but hoping we can get to it, sose we can hit the ground running!
Here's to hoping! :)
These are two photos direct from Google Earth. The first is where we live now.......pretty congested, hey? The second is our lot, with the camper, and the dug well (last years big project), slightly visible.
