Fire in Town
Close to 10:00 last night my wife and I looked out the window after hearing mysterious loud noises and saw the horizon aglow. It was clearly a fire. It was coming from the center of... More »
Close to 10:00 last night my wife and I looked out the window after hearing mysterious loud noises and saw the horizon aglow. It was clearly a fire. It was coming from the center of... More »
I needed a solid run this morning and headed to the Hinesburg Town Trails. It was muddy but not too muddy for a run. I try to be conscious of using trails when they will... More »
The word "quagmire" has come to be synonymous with a conflict from which one has become so engaged that one cannot extract oneself. The simple definition is a soft ,wet or marshy area that yields... More »
I ran 15 miles today. By the second half of it the temperature was close to 80 I am sure. It was over 80 when I got back home. I was hot. My total for... More »
My wife woke me at about 1:00 AM to tell me we had a bat in our room. This is the second time we have had one flying around inside this month. At least it... More »
Straight from the pages of weird but true news comes this headline from the Burlington Free Press: " Governor Hit by Pie During Parade ." One of the ongoing political jokes in Vermont is... More »
Our babysitter came over today so my wife and I went for a run. We ran for the second time on the Hinesburg Town Forest Trails here in town. They were created by a bunch... More »
That's what I was doing--watering the pepper plants I just transplanted when it started to rain. I made sure they had enough since it seemed just a shower and then quit. I planted a zucchini... More »
Back in the middle of winter, when the temperature was below zero and the wind blew wisps of snow across the frozen meadow, I said, "It will be just a few months and it will... More »
For several years on the Sunday before Memorial Day my wife and I ran the marathon in Burlington. I haven't run it since 2002. It happened this past Sunday and I keep bumping into people... More »