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Half a mile is probably right at the limit of the moderation effect of the lake from what I've observed.

I'll follow up with that this was 10+ years ago, their polices may well have changed since then. We just happened to be there on a slow day and I had no idea at the time who the lady helping us was.

You don't have to take lessons at Cochran’s but if you do you might just be lucky enough to get an Olympic gold medalist to teach you.

That was my son's experience when he was learning to ski. Barbara Ann personally showed him the right way to put on his boots and how to use the tow rope and most importantly how to stop! All for the cost of a lift ticket and renting the boots and skis.

I was reading recently about a company that is working on a seedless cherry developed via CRISPR.

https://www.fooddive.com/news/a-pitless-cherry-pairwise-uses-crispr-to-change-produce-dna/584743/

Yeah, we moved here 20 years ago, that first winter we took a picture of my now 21yo son up to his neck in snow. Not a snow drift, just regular snow in a large lawn in South Burlington. Been a while since we had that much snow in one go...

That's a great spot to see them landing from, but they tend to take off in the other direction.

A reminder that Avgas is generally still leaded.

Anything more than 10 years old is pretty useless.

It's a poorly designed web app that looks like it's from 2008.

It eats bandwidth like crazy, don't even try using it if you are on restricted mobile bandwidth.

The scaling is all out of whack. Looks fine on an iPad, unusable on a phone.

It takes days to show transactions that show up much faster on the desktop site.

Even their own internal employees have voiced their hatred of the app to me.

Compared to the app it replaced it slid back a decade in usability.

If you use apps primarily for your banking interface then ask them to show you the app before you decide on which credit union.

The app that NEFCU uses for their credit card is total junk. Avoid.

I bring mine into the office where it's a fairly constant ~76F and ~50% humidity over winter. That's not really hot enough or humid enough for ideal conditions but I've found Scotch Bonnets to be tough enough to survive and it's what I have available to me.

The biggest problem I've found is keeping them aphid free.

This is a good guide:

Overwintering Peppers - Keep Your Plants Alive for Years - Pepper Geek

Depends on how well you baby them, Scotch Bonnets are the easiest by far to overwinter though. I'd had some for 4 years now and going strong.

You can actually over winter a scotch bonnet, they are one of the few perennial capsicum species and grow to the size of small trees in the tropics.

Yes, I'll recommend but please buy them locally at Outdoor Gear Exchange or the likes. Jeff has more than enough money for 100 lifetimes.

Those silos have not been used since 1963 or so, targeting them would be just a waste of a MIRV.

The lady working at the Vermont Welcome Center in Alburgh, which is next door to the silo, told me that she remembers them being raised up out of the silo on occasion for drills etc.

Unlike the Minutemen missiles that replaced them, these had liquid fuel that had to be loaded before they could be fired and they could not be fired from inside the silo.

This is what they need: https://www.autoblog.com/2013/05/15/clever-water-stop-sign-prevents-tunnel-crashes-in-australia/

We plant our Dahlias in pots to make it easier to move them inside for the winter.

Just as another commenter mentioned, I have left lilies and irises in the ground with no ill effects. Just cover the ground over them with some bark mulch or the likes to help insulate them. These are generally planted 8 or 9 inches deep and unless we get a really brutal winter they should be fine.

Last year was the first year I planted gladiolus and I followed the instructions and dug them up in October. The corms really grew a lot!

Anyhow I obviously missed a bunch of the new baby corms because a bunch of new gladiolus stems came up this spring before I planted last years corms. None of them flowered but they grew well. So I'm just going to leave them in the soil this winter and cover them up well with bark mulch and maybe some plastic film to help keep the salt off.

One thing that did not survive was Cannas, the first frost killed them and rotted the roots.

Pretty much anywhere in range will do, the hardest thing will be finding a place to stay overnight...

Yeah, been there, done that.

I couldn't make it up the slight incline outside the Winooski parking garage once when driving my son's car that he still had summer tires on, it just couldn't get enough traction to make it up the incline to Route 15, it was just light snow with a very light ice on the road. I ended up letting it slide back down to the bottom of the incline and parked it in the garage again and took the bus home.

If you live in town and never travel beyond the main roads in winter you’ll be fine with all weather tires as long as you stay home on snowy or icy days.

If you actually want to go places in winter then get snow tires.