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I went to a new #RepairCafe today, operated by Sustainable Charlotte. It's a great scene with lots of fixers, a big space, all sorts of home-cooked food, kids running around. Very busy, with a huge list of people waiting for knife sharpening. Too bad I don't do knife sharpening. 😀 I fixed two bicycles, one that needed brake work and a tire re-seated, and another that needed the shifters cleaned. Then no more bikes so I fixed two lamps. #Vermont
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[ belated because we had no cell reception ]
We have a spot. The dogs have bully sticks. Now we just have to survive the next four hours or so.

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Wifey the two dogs one of them is wearing a coat they are chewing on bully sticks one is laying on the grass. The other is laying on a thin dog bed we have laid on it.
A view of Saint Albans Bay on Lake Champlain. the bottom of the photo shows the rock they have laid to keep this park from eroding away
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There are, apparently a lot of really impatient assholes on the road. Be careful out there, folks.

One of them that nearly forced us off the road by not allowing us to merge when a lane went away just tried to pull around a semi, on the blind side of the hill, in a no passing zone when the truck is also in the same long line of traffic that we are.

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We are about 30 minutes south of Burlington in the middle of nowhere farm country and this is the traffic ahead of us. In the past half hour we’ve gone from an hour and 15 minutes to our destination to one hour to our destination. We keep passing through teeny town centers where the speed limit drops, and it ends up making slow moving standing waves of traffic

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A line of vehicles on the road ahead of us. You can see a silo on the side of the road in the distance. There are a lot of silos around here.
A photo from a few minutes before of some frost covered farm fields with nothing on them
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It has begun… again.

It is 6:17 AM and there is already a stream of traffic heading north. I am just thankful that we didn’t do anything stupid yesterday and that the dog is not stressing out like he has in the past.

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A black and white dog rests his head on a flannel clad arm. Passed him you can see a shifter and center consul of a car. Also, the drivers arm and leg. The dog is asleep
A view out the car window. You can see the silhouette of a mountain with the light colors of dawn behind it. A few nearby trees poke above the Ridgeline of the mountains. Mirror to the car. You can see a pond with morning sunlight, reflecting off of it. There is a guard rail with heavy motion, blur, and the car mirror.
The line of traffic ahead of us you can see five cars stretching ahead around a curve. Decides of the road are lined with dark trees. In the distance you can see pale blue mountains. Beyond them, you can see a smooth sky, cascading from reddish Orange at the bottom to whiteish blue at the top
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It was… dramatic. I have thoughts. The first of which is that 3 1/2 minutes is not nearly long enough to wrap your head around everything that’s happening.

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