Thursday, October 18, 2012

I suppose some of you, at least, have wondered where I've been these past few days when there was no entry on the blog.  Not to worry - all is well.  We just took a few days to "get away from it all" and went to the coast in Maine. Just got back this afternoon, so I'm catching up on announcements, etc.  Later I'll have some photos to share, I hope.

Click on the image at the right to see what that's all about.  Diane Lashoones at Water Tower Farms said tickets are $10.


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Just before we left on our mini vacation, we found some trucks on West Shore Road (we'd actually seen them working out on Route 2 a few days earlier) that seemed to be a new internet service.  We stopped to ask what was happening, and were told it was, indeed, a fiber optic company and that it was a "government project."  Fred thought it might be the Vermont Fiber Connect Project, so got in touch with them.  Here's the replay: 

Fred, those trucks are indeed working on the Fiber Connect Project, which will 
allow us to connect schools, libraries and other anchor institutions throughout 
Vermont to our fiber network. It will take at least another year to complete 
that phase of the project. After that, we expect that businesses, smaller 
organizations and even some residential cooperatives will explore ways to use 
the new fiber network.

For now we are fully concentrating on phase 1 but please keep in touch as we 
move past the anchors next year.

-Judy Eshelman, Customer Service
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From Henretta Splain, for the Pope Memorial Library in Danville: 
 
Our next inspired dinner will be on November 4, at 5:00 pm. Dee and Bruce Palmer have generously offered their home to us for a PIZZA inspired dinner. Our inspiration is a movie called I Love You to Death, a hilarious movie starring Kevin Kline and Tracey Ullman about a womanizing Pizza owner and his long suffering wife. So we thought a pizza party would be in order - here's the menu:
APPETIZER: Nona's Peasant Style Minestrone
ENTREE: Assorted Handmade Artisan Pizzas
Caesar Salad
Italian Bread
DESSERT: Tiramisu

I think that's all the announcements I need to catch up on right now.  I need to go out and coax Woody off the hood of the car.  He has been crouched there ever since we got home a few hours ago.  Jamie stopped in to feed him and said Woody was very lonesome - followed Jamie everywhere, and kept up a very loud conversation each time Jamie was hereJamie said he felt sorry for Woody, knowing he was definitely missing his folks.  We think perching on the hood of the car was a direct message that that care was not to move again, ever. 

When I went out just now, I petted him and then he followed me into the house.  He's having a bite to eat right now, but I expect he'll be joining me here at my desk momentarily.  He'll be a little nervous for a few hours, but once we settle back into our regular routine (and his!), he'll be fine. 

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