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happy easter

This year, an annual easter hunt uncovered a veritable treasure at Ron's antique shop around the corner on Main st.
The bottle in this picture is inscribed DAIRYLEA Dairy Men's League.
According to Ed who has lived in town "a long time", the Dairy Men's League was the name of the creamery where I have now set up camp. This was a cooperative established circa 1907 by a group of dairy farmers in order to increase their marketing power in the area. Ed talked of a friend he made in the creamery who would sneak bottles of chocolate milk out the side window that Ed and his friends would drink behind the train tracks. One bottle has been returned.

and now a word from our sponsor...

It may look like I'm about to spit at the camera but really the nuns were just cracking me up. It was easily the most honorable and surprising experience to spend the night with a couple of radical Buddhist nuns from Nepal.
Now, in return I would like to take a moment to promote their most nobel cause. These two nuns, Venerable Molini and Venerable Dhamma Vijaya, are building a school in Kathmandu to provide education and shelter for females at risk of becoming victims to human traffickers who sell girls, as young as six, to the sex trade in India: http://www.dhammamoli.org
I might exchange my pellet stove for a new wing at the school...or at least a few extra beds.

O-B-A-M-A

viewed this on an old friend's blog and felt it would just be wrong not to share...

chamfers

Finally warm and sleeping restlessly.
I had the stoves installed yesterday after long cold winter, but was up half the night worried about chamfered corners on this ugly pellet stove. I am allergic to chamfered corners. While defending my thesis in 1993, the main critique by a prominent architect boiled down to "too many square corners for an elementary school." Say WHAT?
Rudolf Steiner had some good arguments for curves in schools, but I was not designing a Waldorf school and this guy was suggesting castrated corners! Weak. I must have had a great project.

Someone tell me the chamfers are o.k.

lit my fire.