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« on: June 27, 2013, 04:58:36 PM »
Anyone got any? We found a carpenter ant crawling around our house last night.
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« on: April 08, 2013, 06:31:23 PM »
Yes, sorry about the confusion, but due to lack of vendor commitments, we have had to cancel the Home Show With a Local Flavor for this year.
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« on: February 26, 2013, 09:08:12 AM »
cross thread has his sign in the back of his truck now
Where is that?
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« on: February 26, 2013, 09:07:17 AM »
I'm not sure if he does paving, but we had Larry Young lay down a couple loads of stone for us last year, and he treated us very fairly. His number is 849-6679.
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« on: February 25, 2013, 11:48:04 AM »
Thank you.
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« on: February 25, 2013, 08:04:31 AM »
Does anyone have a good recommendation as to where I can get some local, dry, seasoned firewood this late in the season? I'm looking for anywhere from 1/2 a cord to a full cord.
Thanks,
Harold.
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« on: February 23, 2013, 05:57:29 PM »
On February 20, Nicole, Rosemary and I officially welcomed Maggie into our family. She weighed in at 6lbs, 14oz, and measured 19 inches in length. Both she and her mother are healing up and doing very well. We spent two nights at the hospital and made our way home yesterday just after noon. Please join us in our love and cheer over this beautiful, little blessing. 
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« on: January 22, 2013, 09:56:33 PM »
Thanks, Henry. We've got the heat lamp on for the chickens tonight.
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« on: January 05, 2013, 06:18:20 PM »
I'm curating a blog called Rural Church ( http://ruralchurchvt.wordpress.com/), focusing on rural expressions of Christian faith, and specifically what it means to be the church in rural places. I would like to highlight and share some stories of local, faith-filled farmers. If you are, or if you know, a farmer whose relationship with God has deeply impacted your relationship with the land and Creation, I would love to hear from you. Please email me at ruralchurchvt@gmail.com. Thank you, and many blessings, Harold.
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« on: December 31, 2012, 11:46:43 AM »
If you know me, you probably know that I adore the works of Wendell Berry. It should come as no surprise then to have sensed my anticipation and excitement building since I first heard that he was gearing up to release a new collection of stories from the Port William township.
I was not let down.
In A Place in Time, Berry fills in some gaps in the Story of Port William, Kentucky, a fictional town in which he concentrates his colloquial creativity. The collected stories in this volume span from 1864 to the present day, covering themes such as the multiplicity of sides in war; commentary on marriage and love, life and death, and specifically death that comes too soon; the art of imagination and remembering; the necessity and beauty of keeping sabbath; the power of forgiveness, of others and of oneself; dying, and dying well; returning to a well known place after an extended absence; finding one's identity, and the ways others can have an effect on that journey; the disintegration of community, in large part by the military industrial complex; leading a bifurcated life; and the unnecessary suffering and sorrow that we put ourselves through. And in all of these, Berry writes not with a disdain for, but a love of life.
Though there are many melancholy moments, A Place in Time is, overall, a great deal less depressing than some of Berry's previously released volumes. While reading the story, Down in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows, I was overcome with a bout of belly laughter like I haven't felt in some time, having to stop and wipe the tears from my eyes, I was laughing so hard.
As is always to be anticipated when reading anything by Berry, there are many clear, concise and pointed statements of wisdom and beauty laced throughout A Place in Time.
In closing, I will leave you with two such morsels that I've been continuing to chew on, as they seem particularly poignant today:
On sorrow, and the way we often bring more of it upon ourselves than we even realize:
"He would never know even the extent to which it's suffering had been unnecessary... He thought...of our half-lit world, a speck hardly visible, hardly noticeable, among scattered lots in the black well in which it spins. If all it's sorrow could somehow be voiced, somehow heard, what an immensity would be the outcry!" (P 237).
And, to end on a positive note, the essence of community:
"a membership, as Burley liked to call it, a mere gathering, not held together by power and organization like the army, but by kinship, friendship, history, memory, kindness, and affection" (p 193).
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« on: December 17, 2012, 08:33:04 PM »
A gaming store!  Board games, role playing, video games, etc...
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« on: December 07, 2012, 09:15:18 PM »
Scored tickets to see with the film Critics on Monday the 10th at the 1st showing, very excited
I'm a little jealous, not gonna lie.
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« on: December 04, 2012, 06:36:06 PM »
Sword & Lazer is the one with Tom and Veronica right?
That's the one.
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« on: November 20, 2012, 05:37:10 PM »
Thanks for those links, Chris.
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« on: November 20, 2012, 05:30:56 PM »
When's the party?
Happy Birthday, Henry!
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