Yup, great work. I woke up Saturday morning without power, and by the look of the snow, I thought it would be off most of the day. Nope, it was back on within 90 minutes.

How was the skiing? Have they groomed Big Dipper and Willoughby yet?

I get embarrassingly choked up when I visit the chapel.

Four fenced-in dog parks that I know of are in Essex Junction (Burlington area), Derby (near the Canadian border), and Newbury and White Rover Junction (Connecticut River Valley, both near Dartmouth). The one in Derby is probably the nicest, but its a toss-up if any other dogs will be there. The park in Essex Junction always seems to have a good group present.

There's an unfenced park in Montpelier, but I've never taken my dogs there.

This is the only possible answer. Look up AM Foster Covered Bridge on Google maps and images.

As much as I love my dogs (and that was my Bernese enjoying the recent snow that started this kerfuffle), I always keep them on leash when I take them out. You never know who you'll encounter on the trails and how they might react, so I prefer to keep them on lease and under my control. Even at Dog Mountain, where dogs are welcome to roam free. Most people here seem to love dogs, but I din't want to be responsible for an incident if someone doesn't appreciate a 90 lb goofy furball jumping up to give them a big wet kiss.

Pictures like this make me glad I moved to New England, although I'm in Vermont.

That was my intent. We've been waiting for our first big snow storm, and now that we have it, I wanted to show how one particular Vermonter was enjoying the arrival of winter.

Maybe I should have framed the shot with the mountains in the background.

I've only driven through a few times, but I daresay it actually looks kind of nice these days.

Well, in that case, how about an extension to Germany, Austria and Switzerlamd?

A light rail extension from Waterbury to Stowe, with several stops on the way to the resort. Something similar to the Zugspitzbahn in Garmisch-Partenkirchen or the system of rack railways that transport skiers from Interlaken to the various mountain towns in thr Berner Oberland.

Has your primary tried any treatments? If you're getting migraines, that should be within the scope of primary care to manage.

I generally only refer headache cases to neuology if the patient doesn't respond to the usual basic treatments, or if its a more complex syndrome.

Talk to someone addicted to drugs (and those people n their lives) and see how well they're handling things.

Good catch!

And their presence is barely noticable in PA today.

Shakers by definition couldn't breed. So, you only had to wait them out...

Didn't they catch two of these thieves just this week? If I remember correctly, they operated all over the state.

You are exactly the type of person that Vermont needs.

NEK. Very spotty coverage out here.

In the NEK... we just don't get Ikea stuff. Both Montreal and the south side of Boston are just a bit too far to make a daytrip worthwhile.

From what I've seen around here, if you want cheap furniture, you wait to see what your neighbors leave on the curb.

Jupiter and Mars are not too hard to tell apart. Minus the moon and Venus, which is only visible near the horizon in the evening or near dawn, Jupiter is by far the brightest object in the sky. If you're looking up at a prominent star-light object that is clearly visible even in moonlight that saturates out most other stars, it likely is Jupiter.

Mars isn't quite so prominent, although still pretty easy to find if its out and you know where the ecliptic lies. Jupiter has a faintly yellow color to the naked eye, whereas Mars is noticably orange.

Because the moon is waxing currently, you likely saw one of these two planets.

I don't doubt it. The sky really was a weird but beautiful color this morning.

Are mail carriers that punctual anywhere?

Yup, there was definately some interesting lighting this morning.

I can confirm the section west.of Joe's Pond is finished and open, although I'm not sure how far it extends.