So a marriage that a battered spouse can never leave.

Put a small chicken coop in the bed of an F-150 and WAM, your vehicle is a mobile coop farm vehicle that makes beer and grocery runs in between Agway and Tractor Supply.

Costco muffins are the best.

Vermont's a constitutional republic and your claim of Vermont being a democracy is just as aggravatingly false and misleading as calling Vermont a monarchy.

You'll pay more for zee bugs when your social credit score gets dinged for publicly complaining about it.

Checkout the Cabot Trail Network. https://www.cabotvermont.org/cabot-trails.html

Been waiting two years due to a parts shortage. lol.

There's a statutory exemption from inspections for farm vehicles. My neighbor has a hatchback beater for farm use with an orange reflective triangle attached to the back that he uses to run errands in town for farm supplies and travel between crop sites (wink wink)

Ever consider becoming happy by being disposed of owning property and eating bugs to fight climate change?

Vermont roads aren't car-worthy yet your car must be roadworthy of their car-unworthy roads.

My lab has a favorite dog walking spot because the local kids hang out there and drop chicken nuggets and french fries.

Railroad workers agree.

Good to know. I'd happily pay more for milk knowing that my money goes to paying dignified farmer wages and local family farmers not Big Dairy Inc. I'll avoid the Hannaford brand. Perhaps they wont sign on because they source their milk from far away across multiple suppliers not New England?

They sell the same milk as any other store though.

Life is resilient so wouldn't that same ecosystem rehabilitate around 50 year old forest? I own land which was cleared for farming in the early 1800's which fell fallow so the forest encroached and there's living fossil neolectica irregularis mushrooms growing from the soil. All sorts of diversity.

How old must a tree be to be considered old?

Vermont is 78% woodland acres, more woodland acres than 130 years ago. It's okay to manage your forests and selectively lumber to make income on meeting home heating and building material needs.

Snow on dirt roads is like spackle that fills in all the ruts, bumps and pot holes. Smoothest driving ever.

You think people in the 19th century took craps under other people's window sills after stealing and eating their pies left to cool?

Imagine what Burlington would be like for you if the weather and climate was akin to southern California.

What's included in that?

I head a large flock of geese flying overhead a few days ago. I wonder if they were these.

Do you leave the greasy paper plate on the car floor like I do? That's my tell.

I remember watching Captain Phillips in the movie theater and the whole theater started laughing at the scene where Tom Hank's character was driving in Vermont on a congested 4 lane interstate highway.

FYI, Marshfield Village Store has a deli which makes surprisingly good pizza. I recommend their philly cheese stake pizza.