What a great day - a little cooler than yesterday, but still really nice.  We were on a short road trip today, through Waterbury, Stowe, Morrisville and down Route 15.  We stopped in Waterbury at Green Mountain Coffee to pick up a supply of coffee and grab a snack. They had freshly made biscotti with cranberries and almonds.  Is there anything better than coffee and biscotti?  If you haven't visited there (it's the old railroad depot and very interesting inside) you should do that.  

It was close to noon and there were lots of people enjoying  the park, like in summer, eating their lunches, sitting in small groups soaking up the sun, or just strolling around on the beautiful young, green grass.  The trees are much further along than here, and almost everywhere the grass WAS truly greener than here!  Even yesterday when I was in St. Johnsbury it was noticeably warmer, greener and springier.  It's pretty nice living in a higher, cooler location because then we get to enjoy spring a lot longer.  We just have to go a few miles in either direction, and by the time those locations have begun to lose the spring buds and flowers, we'll be getting them here.  Pretty neat, actually.

Stowe area wasn't quite as far along with spring as Waterbury seemed to be, but it was still very pretty driving through the area.  We don't often go that way, so it was fun seeing the changes.  We actually took Route 2 instead of the throughway from Montpelier to Waterbury, and that was interesting, too.  Not much traffic, and although the road had some potholes, it wasn't awful.  I used to take that road frequently when I was working in Montpelier and had to go to the Dept. of Vital Records about every week.  

Actually, we were impressed with Route 2 from here to Montpelier today.  The last time we'd been over it was back in the winter sometime and it seemed very rough, but today was much better.  That's more than I can say for our dirt roads from Walden Heights to Route 2.  We've been very fortunate not to have deep mud, but none of the three towns have done much to smooth out the bumps yet.  Brickett's Crossing road is mostly Walden's, and from Barre Avenue to Route 2 is Danville's, while the stretch in between, most of West Shore Road, is Cabot's.  I think Cabot will be out with the big hone pretty soon - the frost must be mostly out by now.

You may have noticed there was a brief period when our website was down today.  Our site is hosted by Go-Daddy, and they are changing something about their service that is supposed to make it better, and in the process we were knocked off.  No surprise there - that's the way these things go; it's technology showing us all how dependent we've become on it.  After spending most of the afternoon on the phone with tech support, Fred was able to get things ironed out and we're good now.  It will be interesting to see if we notice any difference in how the site loads, etc. 

Here is the schedule for the Cabot Library - click to make it bigger.

They have some interesting stuff going on there.  The Willey Building will soon have more parking available, too.  At town meeting it was voted to purchase land adjoining the lot the building stands on in order to make extra parking. 

There is also an upcoming struggle for Cabot folks to decide how to solve the problem of extensive repairs on the satellite buildings at Cabot School. There are water problems, dwindling enrollment, increased overall expenses, a gym that needs attention - all of which adds up to a pretty penny.  The School Board is trying to come up with the best solution to a host of problems. One of the biggest problems is that the school was built in a swampy area and it's very difficult to keep things dry.  We will be hearing a lot more about this issue, I'm sure.