On the other hand, Pindrus has said he's in favor of "blowing up the Supreme Court". As a Vermonter, I think I could get behind that, given the current state of the court.

Between Struwwelpeter and the folktales collected by the brothers Grimm, Germany has a long tradition of horrifying children's books.

You get to have a party. They get their house cleaned for them. Sounds like a win for both sides.

Ask your doctor if sildenafil is right for you.

Made with yogurt instead of milk, and the batter is thicker than American pancake batter or crêpe batter.

/5 is also easy. Double the amount and move the decimal point over by one place.

Ah, but we have maple creemees*. You can't get better than that.

(*) the local name for soft-serve ice cream made with maple syrup

I just have a night-light in my bathroom, aimed towards the toilet. That way I never have to turn on the main bathroom light at night.

If you're only storing a little bit of left-over paint, the original cans will have too much air space and the paint will degrade faster. Also, they take up a lot more space.

I don't know if there are other propane companies in your area, but possibly another one would.

I asked my gas company to take me off automatic delivery, and change my account to deliver on request only. I check the tank gauge every six months or so, and call them when it's down to about 20%. (Actually these days I don't have to call — there's now a link on their website to request a delivery).

A little bit, but primarily caused a massive avian flu outbreak — many commercial producers have had to kill all their chickens.

You can drive in any weather. Just not necessarily in the direction that you want to go.

Hanover (NH) did have a pirate for a mascot (they called their teams the Marauders), and they just changed to a bear. Raiding and pillaging is no longer considered acceptable behavior.

Needs to be holding a maple creemee, ready to fling it like Thor's hammer.

Good old Ethan Allen!

Absolutely. If you're paying to dig a trench anyway, the extra cost for a 2" conduit is pretty small. And run a pull-string (or 2) through the conduit so that when it's time to install the fiber, it can just be pulled through. The same conduit can be used for fiber, phone, coax, or other low-voltage services as long as it's big enough.

See a performance of Midwinter Revels (just across the river in Lebanon NH).

The Market Basket in Claremont NH is only 6 miles from the border. Not too far out of the way if you're in Windsor or Springfield.

For the benefit of others reading this post, T-Mobile also has pretty good coverage on the east side of the state, not not so much west of the mountains. But looking up specific carriers on a coverage map is really the only way to tell.

Not for someone going through Saratoga, obviously. But OP was coming from NJ, and one reasonable route to VT is taking I-84 to Hartford CT, then I-91 north.

If you're coming up I-91, there are superchargers in West Lebanon NH, which is just a few minutes out of your way.

That's because their menus nationwide used the word "maple", and in Vermont you can only make that claim if it's real. If they had said "pancake syrup" they could have continued to serve the fake stuff.

IHOP decided it was cheaper for them to serve real maple syrup than it would be to print two different menus, one for Vermont and the other for the rest of the US.

You're correct, I misread the original figures. Even at the proposed new spending level of $78 billion, it's still only twice as much as we spend on beer. And practically invisible compared to the $2–4 trillion cost to taxpayers of the 2017 corporate tax rate cuts.

Last I checked, we've committed to send about $4.5bil to Ukraine. (Maybe that's been increased but it's a good ballpark estimate). For comparison, that's about 0.6% of our defense budget. Or about 1/8 as much as we annually spend on beer.