We found a post it note on one of the bathroom doors that said ‘girl’s room’.

We went away for the weekend to Montreal when our kids were 18 and 20. Came home and the house was clean, nothing broken. We congratulated ourselves that they hadn’t held a party. Later that day, I walked by a back seldom used bathroom. There was a post it note on it that said ‘Girl’s Room’.

They absolutely had a party…..

Where does it say they were UNDER 18? Where does it say she allowed it?

My take when I posted the first article of his arrest for the Rolex was ‘I bet this wasn’t the first time’. How sadly predictable.

As a Vermont gramma please accept my apology for all of the assholes that have never faced a problem they weren’t prepared for. Geez, this forum is brutal. Glad you found help. Please note, we aren’t all like this!

Propane is auto delivery. They didn’t schedule anything. And way to be an ass to someone asking for assistance.

Not very neighborly or Vermont of you. Hope you found help OP.

Love, Gramma.

Good luck answering someone looking for a ‘cheap caregiver’.

If the caregiver is on 24 shifts, a room is required, not a perk. Caregivers don’t generally work more than 3 24 hour shifts a week as we tend to have LIVES outside of our jobs. The way it works is there are 2 and sometimes 3 that rotate out and use the same room for night sleeping shift.

Folks that think they can rent out a room and require 24/7 care of gramma are going to get a potential nightmare squatter/crackhead/thief to deal with, then still have to pay for competent care.

Folks that think there are ‘cheap caregivers’ get what they pay for.

It’s been adopted by the ‘I am a racist and proud to be’ jerks. See also Ram pickup.

Last time I noticed, dry wood was running around $300 a cord. Our beast used 6 cord before we sent it down the road. That’s not exactly cheap. Pellets run about the same for way less work, and gramma doesn’t have to chase spiders all over the parlor. 😉

The problem with a wood stove is it requires a lot of work to get your heat. Even if you buy your wood, it needs to be stacked (somewhere outside), dragged into the house, and loaded in the stove. If you source it yourself, add craptonnes more. Then, stove needs to be shoveled out daily and pipes disassembled and cleaned monthly. Say nothing of the poking and prodding during the day.

That’s fine for a youngster, or even middle aged, but we old folks can’t handle that kind of work anymore. When we bought our house, it had a beast of a wood stove. I was really excited to be burning wood again. With no land, the cost these days is ridiculous, our beloved porch became a wood crib and every time I loaded up my arms with wood, I bruised myself for days. The corners and weight of the wood is not kind to aged flesh.

We gave up and switched to a pellet stove. Still more work than adjusting a thermostat but doable for the old fogies.

Call BROC tomorrow morning, they have emergency money for fuel. The income cap is way higher than for fuel assistance.

Did you get it sorted?

I’m afraid so.

Why, you can see the diversity right in the picture, what do we need a statement for?…. SMH

She was out there this morning about 7:30 crossing Florence rd. heading your way. I think they den up in the marble slag pile off of North st. That’s where we hear the noise coming from in the summer. We don’t spend much time outside in the winter to hear them.

We watch the red foxes walk through our yard most every day right above your house. Here’s a YouTube video of their calls, sounds just like you describe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFTEuT3d4I

Ah, the old ‘what watch, which watch, where watch?’ defense.

It’s probably at the bottom of the lake right now.

I know that. This is an update that includes the item he is accused of stealing.

This is an update to include what the trooper is accused of stealing. There was a lot of speculation in the first post about what he might have stolen/been stealing from evidence room.

We use Credo. Prices are good, good coverage, good company.

Where did I say fire? I said paid leave.

Paid leave. Paid. Imagine any other job where you get a paid vacation while they investigate you for theft.

New England boiled dinner. All you need is one pot and some heat. I actually made it outside on a grill once when our stove broke.