Problem is that neither 158 nor Family Table even comes close to what Jana's was. I fucking moved to Jeffersonville at one point just because of Jana's - just two years or so before they closed.

They're actually way underpaid. It's a problem. The only way you can afford to be a lawmaker is if you have a good source of $$$ from elsewhere. If we paid them the state's average income, they'd all get a well-deserved raise.

Legislators make less $$$ than teenage pizza cooks. It's why the legislature has long been dominated by old-ass rich people who can afford to work for nearly nothing. They're bringing the state's average income down right now.

I’m from the now-nonexistent Kellysburgh.

I'm a chicken guy, so I've been following the fucking awful spread of avian influenza and the culling of millions of birds. This is one of the weird circumstances where the normal "economies of scale" reverse. The flu has hit large producers and small farmers alike, but with fewer birds, smaller firms have been more able to protect their birds from the flu and when they are infected and the birds have to be killed, a smaller flock is easier to build back up, so they're recovering faster.

Keep in mind that everything that is currently happening with chickens could absolutely happen with beef (it already did, during the pandemic), milk, corn, vegetables, wheat, nuts, or almost anything else. Large food producers can make things cheaper and cheaper but it always comes at a cost to resiliency. Smaller ag producers are the most resilient parts of any economy (any society, really) and while they may not always be cheap, they're what works when nothing else does.

Buying local isn't always cheap. But if there's one place where it really really matters, it's food. Local farms will only be there to support us when the big producers are falling apart if we support them the rest of the time.

Felt like early April. My chickens are horribly confused.

Cricket Hill is the right call. I haven't been up there this year, so I don't know if they have enough snow yet. But if they do, it's great trails and free, free, free. https://www.vtcng.com/news_and_citizen/news/local_news/cricket-hill-trails-get-new-signs-and-map/article_a6d45190-a622-11ec-b6e4-6b92d55855ed.html

The nest is a gem.

This list sucks. Gremlins is a good one, but the absence of Edward Scissorhands and Nightmare before Christmas is fucked.

I have a few co-workers in there. I've been in one - it looked fine, but not exciting inside. They like the convenience. Nobody seems to have a problem with it. I could for sure hear everyone in the hallway and I bet that gets loud during busy times.

Right? I love alpacas and hate taxes - I could be into this deal.

If you would consider Boston, check out the Dartmouth Coach. They run a bunch of big coach busses every day from Lebanon to the airport and it's cheap. Park in Lebanon, save all the driving, it's way cheaper than paying for parking at the airport, and all you have to do is hop on a bus and fall asleep.

No joke. Some of those holes are deep.

Burger Barn in Jeffersonville

Jericho is fictional for sure. Snowflake Bentley is made up. MMU is really in Underhill. Essex is bigger than you think.

Gomez lives in Cabot. https://vtdigger.org/2020/09/25/luis-guzman-vermont-one-of-safest-places-in-world-right-now/

Doesn't LG close at a set time each year though? And the notch closes when AOT deems it unsafe? Not sure why it's different, but it seems to be.

I'm saying you can overrestrict, but you can't underrestrict. And if you buy a normal-sized aftermarket cat, you aren't in danger of overrestricting. These things are not that picky.

FWIW, I spent a decade fucking around with the exhausts of seven different POS lemons racecars. I've fucked around with every possible cat-delete configuration on a bunch of japanese and american cars. Modern emissions systems are really really tolerant and have enough map range to accommodate almost anything an amateur mechanic can throw at it. These are not high-strung race cars operating at the edge of their envelope. They're grocery-getters built to keep running fine under all kinds of environmental and maintenance conditions. Chill.

Not accurate. You can fuck things up by putting on way too small of a cat so you’re actually creating excess back pressure, but there’s no such thing as too little back pressure and unless you’re totally choking the exhaust, the computer will adjust and you won’t notice any difference.

Moogs Joint.

First, you’re wrong. We need more providers more than we need more beds at existing providers. And second, he doesn’t need nor warrant your criticism. The man just accomplished something a lot of people have tried and failed: he opened a new residential treatment facility in Vermont. He deserves praise for that.

Quit shitting on good things that other people do.

Awesome. I know some people are complaining about this (locals who didn't want it built, others who are upset that it won't serve all the needs they want), but we need more treatment options at every level in this state.

Props to Trey, props to everyone involved in making this happen. This required some persistence on his part. He's a rich guy and it would have been easier to put his money into something that ruffled fewer feathers, was more visible, and less meaningful. Instead, he stuck it out through the permitting process and made it happen.

I hope this is the first of several.

Elmore Mtn. and Belvidere Mtn. for fire tower views. Peek-a-view trail in Sterling Forest for cool views with a swing at the top. Stowe Pinnacle for nice views. Hunger Mtn via Waterbury Trail for the same. Camel's Hump by Burrows Trail. If you get sick of climbing up mountains, try the Devil's Gulch trail near Eden.

While you're there, rent a bike and ride the rail trail - it's a great ride.