Posted on 08/05/2018 6:26:49 PM PDT by EdnaMode
We came back the next day, and they were still out there selling lemonade, and we stopped again. The road was so pretty and relaxing, we repeated the ride...:)
We also stopped to eat, and there was a house across the street with two kids in bathing suits, a little girl of perhaps eight or nine, and a little boy of maybe six.
While we were waiting, my wife and I watched them play, running through the yard, and we thought that they HAD to play with each other. There weren’t any houses nearby...all they probably had was each other to play with...they were pulling limp reeds out of the ground and doing sword fighting with them, whacking each other in the head, but the reeds were so soggy and limp they couldn’t have even left a mark...it was fun to watch!
I was driving out of Baton Rouge, a Union Shop and I was low man on the board. The only long hauls that were not taken up by the A buttons were the North East. I cut my driving teeth on NY, eastern Pa. and points north so I got to see a good bit of that country.
And you didn’t stop to visit me?
HUMPH!
Wish I knew you were in these parts.
Burlington, and now Brattleboro are full of socialists. They came in the 60s and have made roots. Not many native Vermonters like them; but they tolerate them.
What I love about being up here [our village is less than 1K people] is the integrity of the people. Hardscrabble, common sense types who step up help you when needed, and generally mind their own business.
You touched upon a old-fashioned virtue that has been lost in places south of here. That is the *honor system*.
Case in point: my son made arrangements to buy a double L kayak from a guy, who said he would meet him at the house at the appointed time; guy couldn’t get out of work to make the meet, so he said, open the door of the house and leave the money on the hall table, and take the kayak. Transaction complete. No stress. No hassle. That’s how the honor system works here.
Used to be you could leave your doors open, and your keys in the car at the store; still like that here; don’t know for how much longer; like double L had to change their guarantee policy b/c so many people took unfair advantage of it.
When I go to town for supplies, I never go over 35mph to drink in the beauty of Vermont; I take back roads on purpose; always pull over if someone seems to want to fly past [a rarity]; more often or not, they stop, back-up and roll down their window to ask if I am having car trouble. Kind folks. Let me know when you are up in the NEK again; drive slow, roll down your windows, smell the new mown hay and the wildflowers and freshly spread manure.
I’ll put up a lemonade stand for ya! And give you directions to the loveliest 18th C church in all of Vermont.
There sure are some nice parts there...:)
#25. Re “Why would someone rob some kids for spare change, then leave behind a cool hat and a BB gun?”
Well, for several reasons.
* He’s a college graduate of a liberal university.
* He never heard of the fact that DNA can be collected from the sweatband of a hat
* Ne never heard of the fact that his fingerprints are all over the gun (it was used in a “felony” - hard time there, boychek)
* It’s No. Carolina where some law and order prosecutors and judges still do exist
Boy, some people are just batshit stupid. That is why God created jails.
Beautiful country but they still all had Yankee attitudes.I was born in the north, Illinois to be exact, but I got to the south as soon as I could. I was struck in amazement one day in the middle of the week and the bank was closed for Jefferson Davis’s Birthday. I live in Alabama now.
“Would it have been legal to shoot the kid with the gun while it was held against the other kid?”
In Washington state it would be.
Didn’t know you were a Vermonter, Daffynition!
LOL, the state is indeed beautiful, and I do the same. I see a car behind me, I pull over and let them pass...:)
Vermont just...well, feels like it is about 30 years behind in some way...a good way.
Case in point...we went up the the Cabot Creamery to take a tour, only to find out they don’t give tours anymore. Food security.
But we stopped in the little dinky town and went in to have some lunch at “Sarah’s Country Diner”, and when we entered the door, it looked like a...hardware store!
There was a counter with five stools and five people at it, one of them an eight year old (I think) kid. We were puzzled, because it didn’t look like they were serving anything but beer, and I asked if it were Sarah’s Country Diner, and the guy crooked his finger to a door way in the back and grinned. My wife and I laughed...where we live, there is likely some law against a kid sitting at a counter where alcohol was served!
We were the only customers, each bought a sandwich, and then spent the next hour chatting about all things in life with Sarah. When we took our leave, we both shook her hand, and she said that was one of the finest conversations she had in a long time, and since it was my birthday, she gave me a couple of her homemade cookies at no charge, one of which I am eating now...:)
I didn’t want to take it without paying, but I could not convince her otherwise. Just a wonderful day.
Of course, something to counteract that, earlier in the day, we were filling our tank near an intersection in another small town, and heard someone shouting. To me, shouting in public is a bad thing. It alarms people. We turned to see two cars stopped at a light, and a young guy in the car behind was yelling at the people in the car in front of him. He was shouting over and over again “Put out your cigarettes. You are breaking the law. You have children in the car. You can’t smoke in the car with children in it!”
Now, I don’t smoke cigarettes, never have, but I found myself thinking that guy should shut the hell up. Really nanny-statist. I know it isn’t good for the kids. But that scene grated on me.
Good for you...good to live in a state where you feel like you fit in politically.
I live in a very, very blue state, but I’ll probably never be able to leave. My wife is from here...I grew up in a military family so I would leave if I could, but she won’t.
So here I will stay behind enemy lines.
My wife and I were taking a car trip around the U.S., avoiding the anti-gun states, but we had to visit Vermont and New Hampshire. So, we made a non-stop drive across New York to get to Vermont.
We needed lunch so we stopped at a small store along Lake Champlain where we met a lady clerk named Irene. She made us a couple of sandwiches and described a nearby park where we could sit and look at the lake while we ate.
She was so excited to meet a couple traveling from California. She couldn't wait to tell her mom about our visit. I don't recall whether she sold lemonade but we made her day and she certainly made ours.
Figger’s
Rob’s an enterprising young capitalist for how much money.
Then ditches the BB gun, cash box and shirt.
I’d say thugboy probably got less cash then the ditched stuff cost BUT thugboy PROBABLY STOLE. THAT STUFF ALSO...
$17.00
Lesson one now needs to be don’t keep all the money in the cash box, that’s why store’s have drop boxes.
Lesson two, get camera of some sort and set it up hidden for getting thugboys first (probably not) Mugshot.
? No fingerprint, hair. footprint,tire tracks or DNA evidence found
Vermont is beautiful, I’ll grant you but a bit touristy and overated….try most of upstate NY, a best kept secret, especially in the fall. Upstate NY has much more land area, varied regions, quiet old farms that nature has reclaimed...more mountains and hilly plateaus and the rich dark soiled potato growing regions in the Mohawk valley around the old erie and NY state barge canals. How about great lakes regional wineries and those of the finger lakes?...I think NY state even produces superior maple syrup to that of Canada or Vermont! It’s only downside....it’s economy and culture is being destroyed by NYC/downstate tax and spend liberals. I curse the Cuomo family....even the old Italian mobs would have run NY State better than the what the Liberals have done!
Was $17 the amount stolen? I saw they found a BB gun and hat that the bad guy left behind. Wouldn’t a BB gun cost more than $17? The hat could easily cost that much.
I guess if he could do simple math he wouldn’t be robbing lemonade stands.
Ah ha! I couldn’t take Malloy any more .... left the likes of Dick and Murphy only to have Bernie. What a switch. [LOL] At least I have a modicum of respect for Crazy Bernie, he doesn’t masquerade his socialism like the other hypocrites do. We’ve been active with the Vermont pro-gun groups protesting the swarmy gov Scott.
Life is easy, relaxing, and way less hectic.
Yesterday we were having target practice with the shotgun off the deck; using ripe tomatoes like clay pigeons. It’s nice to not have to worry about a swat team showing up, at the sound of gun fire. Carry on.
Seriously, let me know when you are up this way again.
Glad you told me about Cabot. I was going to suggest to our house guests that we go over to the creamery, but we opted for a 4-hour breakfast. Really nice to see the folks *unwind* ....they were spellbound by my hummies feeding off the deck.
Our little village has no *touristy* things to do .... just sit on the deck and relax; wait for some wildlife to come across the field. Well, that is, if you exclude a trip to the dump on Saturday morning. :D
LOL, I have always had two things I wish I could do on my property:
Own and ride horses, and shoot guns off of my back porch!
Now we’re cooking with gas!
Union County WHERE??
VT is also the Oxy abuse capital of the US.
Same thing happened here in semi-rural AZ last week. Heading for the post office and passed some girls flagging down cars and thought it was a HS car wash thingy.
Somebody was smart, as on the post office door there was a sign "Lemonade at the Dixie Maintenance Station". The post office is a mile past them, but more or less a high traffic area (for us).
Stopped and got a couple of cups from some thankful 13-year-olds. Dunno what the function was, just glad to see kids making some effort to earn some money.
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