I read this a different way. This was the key statement in the article: "Following these events and further interactions with Enosburg administrators and school officials, Enosburg does not seem to have addressed these issues with the robustness that is required."

It states that administrators and school officials did not do enough. It says this happened over a three year period. Enough already. Therefore, I support the players' decision to not play the game. This does need to blow up into a state wide discussion among teams.

Enosburg should be embarrassed, as should all of the school administrators in that entire district.

I heard it as just ‘fa-ah’. Two syllables. someone broke a rule or got called away for a chat with the teacher. I only heard it from kids.

Now they say ‘bust-Ed’.

Nah. That is not true.

I spent 20 years driving in places like Seattle, Oregon, Nashville, Denver and California. This whole time, I had this impression of Mass-holes being crazy on the road.

Then I returned home. I started driving in Boston, Vermont, the Maine coast, and highways in New Hampshire.

Boston and Maine drivers were delightful. When I put on my turn signal in traffic, there was space for me to fit. When I was on the freeway, people would pass and then move right. I rarely saw a slow car camping in the fast lane. The flow of traffic is amazing. I always had room to go where I signaled, or , where it was my right of way. At an intersection, people took their turns, and got out of the way. Not one car tailgated me. Not one car has cut me off. Not one driver or passenger gave me 'stink eye' or a middle finger in traffic. Not one car pulled out of a driveway in reverse, across 2 or 3 lanes of traffic, to go the other way. Not one car tried to make a left turn across traffic when it was not safe. (They turned right, and made a safe U turn. ) These are regular hazards in those other places.

Use your turn signal.

Do what is expected. Go when it is your turn. Standing in the way when it is your turn to go is annoying. And not safe. So move it out of the way.

Interesting. I have read, and been told that they do eat tics for so many years.

It depends on the land. If it is a forest or wetland , leaving it alone might be best. If there is a stream, planting things to shade the water helps keep the water cold. Knowing what is growing there, what should be growing there, and what should not be there helps.

As for tics, encouraging animals that eat them helps. Opossum and skunks come to mind. Two animals that people do not want near their homes eat a ton of tics. Chickens and other birds eat tics too.

I agree. It is hard to tell. And it is easy to make it look like they are in the flowers, while staying on the trail. That was the intent of my comment.

I do trust OP to do the right thing. I read other comments by OP. Others read this too. So having a good smack down telling people to stay on the trail is a benefit to the people reading this, and not commenting. I also tried to word it as both supportive, and firm.

Yes. Is it LED that is so bright? Or Halogen? I don't know. We can do better.

Exactly. I got some nasty comments and a bunch of down-votes for saying that.

It might not be high beams. Some of the new headlights are just plain obnoxious. I forgot what they are called.

Edit to add: Halogen Lights and Fog Lights

Yep. The lights at that hour are not for you to see. It is for that guy over there to see you!

I know from experience.

July, but that is not a safe bet. Predicting when they will show up is much easier closer to that date. And, I have seen good flowers in July. Flowers start their season as early as possible. And it is a quick season, since winter may be coming any day now.

Please do not walk off the trail to stand in the flowers. It looks like these two might be doing that, but it is possible it is just the perspective. Or, the photographer might be doing that. Or a good photo shop job.

You can get a good photographer to photo shop to make an illusion. I hope that is what this is.

Hey, shoot in RAW format, and I will do the photo shop for you. No one needs to know. In fact, you will earn the respect of many people if you openly say you photo shopped out the trail to make it look this way.

What kind of projects? I live on the west coast now. I get wood for bowl turning several ways. I get what they have. I get wood from companies that cut down trees for homeowners, parks, power companies, etc. They need to either shred it up, or pay to dump it at the 'green' landfill. If I take it away, it helps them.

You can search for portable sawmills. Tell them what you are looking for. Keep an eye on the 'materials' and 'free' sections of craigslist. Someone will mill up batches of what they have and post it there. You can put a wanted ad on craigslist too. I bet there is a vendor who has some slab wood in the area.

I have also connected with a couple of loggers who are on the look out for certain woods, like fruit wood or nut trees. A couple years ago, I could not get enough wood. Now I have too much, and more coming in each week.

We had a big parking spot at the top of our driveway. They plowed up all of the snow into one tall bank on the downhill side, and one on the uphill side. We would climb the bank on the uphill side with our sleds, and sled down the hill. But the bank there was too big on the downhill side that winter, and that ruined it.

So some of the older kids dug a long tunnel up through the lower snowbank. On the uphill side, we make it like a bob sled run with walls. That way we would hit the tunnel. Then somebody sprayed the hose on it to ice it up. So we raced down the uphill bank, through the tunnel, and then down the long hill. It was about a half mile down. The adults would sometimes meet us with the snowmobiles and tow us around the field, back to the road and back to the top. Sometimes we had to walk over to the driveway and rode back up in the back of the pick up truck. I was 8 that winter.

It was Christmas time in Wilmington. All of the cousins were here and staying at my grandmother's house. The snow was up to the kitchen window. The drift here led to the top of our regular sledding hill. There were 9 cousins and some neighbors, so maybe 15 or 18 kids, and about 6 dogs.

We would bring our sleds into the kitchen, and my dad or uncle would lift the kid into the sled. Then down we went, with a dog chasing us. There were two windows, and after a while, we raced each other. Grandma sat there smoking cigarettes and sipping bourbon laughing at all the kids and sleds and dogs passing through her kitchen.

Yes. When I ask someone out, I offer a time and place. She can suggest a different time or place. That means yes.

Chain enforcement in Washington, and BC, Canada have changed to Winter Tire enforcement, and only during a storm, and only if you are stopped.

The reality is you get a ticket if you cause a crash, block traffic, or need a tow because of summer tires.

Good question.
Chains are needed in only the most severe conditions. I have used them once in Vermont. It was more than needed. Good tires will help more In snow.

Get good tires and drive for the conditions is better advice.

I have used chains more on ice with freezing rain on top of that. All in other places. And then, only for the worst hill, or curve. Drive for the conditions.

Yes means yes. Suggesting an alternate plan is yes.

Every thing else is not yes. Which means no.

Whoosh. Sarcasm.

You are being down-voted because ethical hunters do not use food to attract prey. Ethical photographers do not use food to bring in the subjects. They learn the habits of that animal and go 'hunt' them. They find them where they belong and 'capture' them legally.

Ethical neighbors do not put out food to attract unwanted critter. What damage do those animals do getting to and from your property?

Its one thing for a wildlife management program to put out food to support animals during a weather event. Putting out extra food to get more animals in a particular area is called bait. That is unethical and illegal.

I down-voted over the ethics of it.

Sounds like you are 'grooming' the deer. Don't let the conservatives find out. They will ban my cooking with fruit cookbook!

That's your branch manager? I think he is biting off more than he can chew.

Forests and natural resources. Resources do include minerals and wildlife. And standing trees. Preserving forests close to streams and rivers help keep a healthy fish population. We do not have commercial fishing in our rivers, that I know about, but we do have people who come to fish particular streams. Keeping that stream healthy is a resource. Who benefits? The travel industry.

My family owned three different properties that were logged regularly. When ever we logged, the forester would mark what to cut this year, what to leave, and what would probably get cut next time, in 3 or 4 years. And by rotating what property got cut this year, we had a harvest almost every year. Or, to be more accurate, when we needed cash we would harvest some trees. Over 35 years, the trees became both taller and thicker. So we cut the same number of trees and produced more board feet and better logs for the mills. That led to more profit, and steady income.

I use my scary voice back. He hangs up in a hurry. I think I blasted his eardrums a couple of times.