Charles A. Mayhood

I was delighted to learn that swallows play! Two found a bit of fluff and took turns flying it up high and letting it go, the second catching it and launching it again. The best of life comes with stopping to just really see the world we live in.

Reading this with the Benny Hill theme accompanying.

Independance Day parade in Vermont.

Can we borrow that for a few days? Nearest Ikea is in Canada ....

There were far too many Vermonters when the quilt was displayed at St Michaels College. Many in shared blocks. It would have been nice to memorialize more than one.

Vermonters memorialized on it???

Ha Ha! I never thought about how much time must be added to gardening, by archeologists and their specialists. As primarily a musician, my own work is affected only by the tempo of the music playing while I work. Driving too!

Vermont is friendly - and resoundingly voted against the color orange - order it here. ;-) Or any other blue state, for that matter. (But we are obviously the best.) The other historian's option would be to brew chicory or pine needle tea.

25 years ago today Howard Dean hid in a closet and signed the paper, fearful of any photographs of the signing being used against his further political desires. Howard the Coward.

In Vermont it is still only 4 inches high, but already looking forward to the first strawberry rhubarb pie!

I have been pointing out this 'coincidence' myself! I am fairly certain he bored the Pope to death.

Personally, I am awaiting the uproar - is it really 'coincidence' JD Vance met the Pope and now the Pope is dead? Pretty sure he bored him to death. (Too soon??)

Who pissed off Tom?

You have the mechanics worked out - now you need twenty more, in butter, and invite ten friends to Sunday Brunch to watch them melt. Well done!

I see a Nathaniel Hawthorne or Mary SHelley in your future.

As they come back to us for the North American summer - thank you. Vermont will see them on or about 9 May.

Really enjoying these Chinese AI videos taking the piss out of America.

Wishing I was a chocolatier... New Easter treats for the 20th.

The Don't Tread on Me Gadsden flag with a penguin

I am obsessed with the penguin Gadsden flag

The most difficult part is over - selecting the next project to work on. This time a series of journals not yet transcribed or translated, from throughout the French & Indian War in America, by French engineer Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, later the Marquis de Lotbinière. I'll see you in a year.

I just can't.. this is so frigging cute! 😽

Bargain basement prices! Perhaps Greater Britain wants us back? Please??

I ended my career as a health and safety specialist, enforcing OSHA rules. That’s the kind of thing that sticks out to me right away. Well, right after I looked for a date on it to see what time. We were talking about.

I'm sorry - but really. Poppa is near by AND letting him play with an open knife, an open safety pin and straight pins? And I thought out 1970s parents were passive...

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

Sooo ... Fiction??? Too unbelievable to be true. Wake me up now. Please - wake me up.

On the US side of the border, it is more believable when you have an administration that believes history and facts are inconvenient truths. As long as they control the computers, they can control what they pass as knowledge.

An important watch well worth 10 minutes out of your day.

These are a dime a dozen in US junque shops. Ok, a little more pricey, but readily available. Apparently, they missed a few.

A message from a lowly American - though I am a great (35X) Grandson of Ragnarr Loðbrók Sigurdsson - so I will dare be forward and comment. Do NOT bow down to this bully. Do not kiss the ring. False kings are only propped up by those who appease them.