Stephanie Elms

Erskine, Minnesota December 9 - December 18, 2025 Tue. 26° | 13° Light Snow Wed. 13° | -1° 30% Chance Light Snow Thu. 12° | 5° 30% Chance Light Snow Fri. 4°| -22° Partly Sunny Sat. -10° | -23° Partly Cloudy Sun. -1°| 0° Partly Sunny Mon. 9° | 3° Partly Sunny Tue. 25° | 17° Cloudy Wed. 15° | 7° 30% Chance of Snow

If it makes anyone feel better…here’s the weather forecast in NW Minnesota where my youngest lives. They are having a heat wave today. 😂

Love to see it! ❄️

Have to admit, I’m enjoying it!

We can blame that on Phoebe & Jason!

Looking forward to it!

Yeah. It sucks that Republicans eliminated the tax credits and created this time crunch. And then to have Solar Energy’s screw up on top of that. Ugh.

Every little bit helps!

Yay! My favorite part is only having to send Dominion $8/month.

Wonder if it’s a problem with demand being so big & growing too fast?

I found them through Solarize VA in 2022 & and they were great. Contracted in Aug expecting installation in Dec. City messed up permitting & then Dominion dragged their feet so was delayed until March. At the time, they were great to work with & I’ve been super happy with my panels & battery.

[AVA] Fw: New Rosemont listse... John Patrick via groups.io To: Group Notification +1 Dec 6 at 8:54 PM ••• Rosemonters, I am writing to the Beverly Hills - Rosemont = Del Ray listserv because the owner of the "Rosemont" (rosemontva) listserv repeatedly took down my response to to her own e-mail about the new listserv the Rosemont Citizens Association (RCA) recently established. (Both my e-mail and hers are below.) I"m confident the new RCA listserv, unlike rosemontva, will never take down an e-mail just because it happens to be about a different neighborhood listserv. To my knowledge, the RCA has never sought to restrict the flow of neighborhood information in any way. If you wish to join the RCA listserv, send a request to: RCA+subscribe@groups.io Best regards, JJP

< [AVA] Fw: New Rosemont listse... Rosemont neighbors, To clarify just a bit more, while the Rosemont Citizens Association set up the new, official RCA listserv to facilitate the dissemination of information to Rosemont residents, you, as Rosemonters, are also free to disseminate your own information on it, just as you have done on rosemontva. In addition to receiving RCA notices about neighborhood and city matters, you can use the new listserv for everything from passing on local news and publicizing local organizations and events to asking for recommendations and selling or giving away stuff you don't need anymore. The new RCA listserv differs from rosemontva only in that one person does not own it. It belongs to all Rosemont neighbors. Every Rosemont neighbor therefore gets a say in how the RCA listserv is run. If you don't like something about how the RCA listserv is administered, you can come to any RCA meeting and propose to change it. If you wish, you can schedule a vote on your proposal at the subsequent meeting so you and any other neighbors who come to that meeting can decide on it together. In short, the new RCA listserv belongs to you, so don't hesitate to use it. Best regards, JJP

Apparently you need to be on all 3 local listservs to get the full discourse on this? This was posted on AVA last night…I guess they’ll get everything sorted out eventually…

Happy, happy birthday! 🎂🎈🎁

Oh! Together We Bake cookies are amazing.

The fog…not the river.

But did it freeze?

Right?

Love this! I’m a sucker for old brick buildings, no matter the size. 😍

Butterfly Bakery of Vermont and Fat Toad Farm Goats Milk Caramel Premier makers of farm-to-fork hot sauce, goat's milk caramel, maple sweetened baked goods, whole seed mustards, salsa and more. Small farms, big flavor.

No help with local, but I love the caramel samplers from Butterfly Bakery and the jam samplers from Blake Hill Preserves. Both small local Vermont companies.

butterflybakeryvt.com

blakehillpreserves.com

Good reminder. I had plumber in a few months ago to replace my outdoor faucet. He didn’t believe me when I said there was no way to shut off the water w/out shutting off the whole house. Then he realized I was right. And he fixed that too. So I get to winterize this year. 😂

But I think you’d be surprised. Overall support is not as clear cut as you’d think it would be. And the devil is in the details…

Just watched now & it did not have a warning.

[heads off to check email]

Also interesting that they have not notified anyone on the former official Rosemont list…

And I only found out because I’m on the renamed Beverly Hills listserv. It’s getting so much more confusing. 😂

Right? I have no idea. I’m just along for the ride.

I guess? They are publicizing it and I don’t see any restrictions on who can join. I guess they didn’t like the moderation on the original list? 🤷‍♀️

I just joined yesterday. Current discussion is the traffic light issues & proposed changes on Russell.

Cut off the bottom of the forwarded message. It was from…Vineeta.

The Rosemont Citizens Association has created a new listserv since the existing private Rosemont list no longer works the way a good neighborhood list should. The new list is called rca@groups.io Please join and please share this information with your friends and neighbors. The new list will thrive if we support it. You can visit the group, start reading messages and posting them here: groups.io/g/rca The email address for this group is: rca@groups.io. Because our system allows for participants to post via web or email, you can use this email to post new topics. But most importantly, please add this email address to your safe sender list in your email client's contacts. This is the official email list for the Rosemont Citizens Association in Alexandria, Virginia, for announcements from the association as well as community discussion.

This was forwarded to the AVA (formally Beverly Hills) listserv.

No mention that Rosemont now has two neighborhood listservs? 😉