The view from the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum's look off at Hogback Mountain on route 9. We left the sea, crossed southern Maine, made it up through the White and Green Mountains, ferried across Lake Champlain then followed the upper half of the St. Lawrence Valley home to Easlakia. 12 …

In case you are wondering we are doing OK but you would be if you had Beal's Ice Cream (hard ice cream specialists), Red's Dairy Freeze (soft serve specialists), Maine Diner on the way here (lobster roll and chowder), Gritty McDuff's (lamb burder and cask ale), 3 Dollar Dewey's (fish sandwich but …

A new $320 canoe has been sighted. Ungabelievable.

So we are out early at the ball park to get a good seat behind home.  We are all covered in red to fit in with the minor league Red Sox crowd.   The kids say they want to get the balls signed.  I had three that I had bought for 500 Up and the kids wanted to bring them just in case and away I go …

Now that I am missing the Kings undergrad reunion, I will not be able to go see the Charter from 1754 signed by George II...or was it the one from 1802 signed by George III... that sat on the wall in the room where I took my freshman year classes. The first was granted to the school at its first …

One last look at Coco before the drive home  •  A huge thank you to Chris whose extra tickets gave me and the lad an unforgettable evening. And it was not just having the tickets. It was not that the tickets were in the sixth row. It was not Tina. It was not that the Sox hammered the Jays 8-0. It …

...I shall eat a hot dog. Nothing better to watch a crumbling home team better than by eating a hot dog. To be fair, tomorrow's game will see Halliday on the mound so a Bosox loss would not be a fraud upon the gods but I will still root for the last knuckleballer and eat a hot dog and so will the …

Hah! Denied! I defy ratty desire!  •  While I am lazy as the next guy, I do plan from time to do something. Yesterday I made the compost big mouse proof. We are a heavily composting neighbourhood and an exceptionally well mammaled one as well. We have mice, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits and the …