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Ponds. A DIY Adventure & Pictorial Guide for Water Loving Property Owners and Vermont Homes
September 4, 2024
Driving up a nearby Vermont mountain pass one day I noticed a new pond being built; adding ponds is a fantastic property improvement as almost everyone loves water and waterfront property. Pulled over, knocked on the door of the house, and got ...
You’ve Got the Power. Taking The Leap. Getting Solar Power & Solar Panels for Your Vermont House.
December 18, 2023
You've Got the Power. EVs (electric vehicles) are everywhere. EV power stations multiply. Gasoline prices soar. Is your power bill high this month? Did your utility company really just jack the rates again? Don't the Mazda CX-90 plug ...
An Artificially Intelligent Conversation. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman & Microsoft’s Tech Officer Kevin Scott Filling Us In
February 10, 2023
AI. It's all the rage. Take a deep dive by listening to this NYT podcast on the releases of artificial intelligence by Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing and how ChatGPT has sparked a revolution you can now experiment with and that will affe...
A Cuckoo Clock Obsession
December 26, 2022
Obsession can strike out of the blue. 30 years ago my father gave me a cuckoo clock from the Black Forest of Germany. It sang for years before falling quiet. One thing lead to another and some of its parts went missing. After decades of sepa...
Act 146. “Reserved Forestland”. Current Use Program in Vermont Expanding Old Growth Forest + Other Changes
November 14, 2022
Change is a coming. Landowners of 27 or more acres in Vermont have, since 1980, benefitted significantly from Vermont's Current Use Program and it's lower tax rate on land farmed or forests managed through judicious logging. It's estimated e...
The Taste Atlas; Vermont International
April 14, 2022
Are you an epicurean? A foodie? The galloping gourmet? Here's a story. This text drops from AT&T saying I've wracked up over $100 in international calling and I may want to put on the brakes and look into it before destitution sets in. Ri...
Covid Pandemic Pandemonium. Deciphering the Eviction Moratorium for Vermont Landlords and Tenants
February 3, 2021
US President Joseph Biden has signed, among the barrage of executive orders, an extension of the Eviction Moratorium through at least March 31st, allowing federally-backed mortgage forbearance applications continuance. Landlords all over th...
Vermont Real Estate, An Adventure Raising Pigs and the Joy of Living Far From Cities and Covid-19 Corona Virus Concentration
April 30, 2020
Living in the country is something I have always cherished and, from a very young age, believed so much better than congested urban sprawl. Both my parents chose large cities from Caracas, Venezuela to Manhattan in New York. The money, cu...
Epic Vermont News. Alterra Mountain Resorts to Purchase Sugarbush early in 2020
November 13, 2019
The Ikon Pass. The Ski Travel Revolution. The writing was on the wall when Vail Resorts forked over $41 million for Stowe in 2016. We here in the not-a-single-stop-light Mad River Valley felt the tremor and when Sugarbush owner Winthrop ...
