New England 101

[spook]

Maine, the place where you build a fire in the morning, turn on the AC in the house by afternoon and rebuild that fire around 3 pm as the sun sets behind the trees. And we go to bed when it gets dark under the table cause you just got in from chores.
Don't forget 4x4, Budwieser, black coffee, mud runs and tractor pulls!
The smell of a apple orchard in spring and its crisp apple smell in the fall sun with crickets churping. Roasting corn in the fire pit, hot dogs and going visiting with your peas, beans, or instead of May baskets, its Zucchini wars in September!

Everywhere has its ups and downs. Winter is rough, down right brutal at times. The critters wade through deep snow, we shovel it, plow it, rake it and everything is chapped!

 

[mamagardener]

Don't forget, wear your winter jacket with shorts- just in case!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Vermont

 

[clickie]

wow lol those are some nice pictures. I want buckets of blueberries lol. Wild ones are the best.

 

[spook]

Quote:
Um, I'm thinking Florida in winter is the place to be!

Just wish I could be a snowbird and find warm, hell, sunshine in the whole year.
Living in dreary rainy or snowing climate is for the birds. Folks say England is over cast a lot, but it just may be why we are called "New England" with the curse of clouds.

Saw sun today, yahoo, it was something else!

 

[Henrietta23]

New England is wicked cool!

 

[first time farmer]

Well I am only a teen so i love the winter snowmachining(sp) and all that gotta love it mudding in the spring summer and fall whats not to love?

 

[Widget]

Maine:
- Moxie
- Italian Sandwiches
-Lobster

 

[Rosalind]

Lobster rolls: big chunks of lobster with chopped celery, mayo & little bit of lemon juice, on a toasted buttered hotdog roll with a small piece of lettuce.

Beer: Harpoon, Red Hat, or "Uh, this is a brewery you're sitting in." You ask for a Bud Lite, the bartender will serve you a nice glass of dirty dishwater. We take our beer seriously here. In fact, I can think of some movies set in Boston area where their main failing was product placement of cheap watery beer, such as we do not drink in New England.

Driving: Don't. Public transit as much as possible. And never during rush hour. My cousins often call me to say, "Hey, I'm going to Boston, wanna meet up for dinner?" I tell them, you come to my house and we'll take the train in. Don't you try to drive. They always say, "No no, we'll drive, it's fine." Then I get a frantic call at 6pm, "There's no place to park! I've been stuck in traffic on the same stupid bridge for three hours! And I'm lost! And the road signs point the wrong way!" Well, I told you to come over...

Confusing non-natives with crazy directions, insane Mapquest directions and lack of road signs is the local pastime. Don't take it personally. Also, your GPS systems will not work, or will give you an error message saying that you need to install updates when you enter New England. The best way to understand our roadways is to read HP Lovecraft short stories about wandering tourists getting lost in the woods and then eaten by aliens from outer space; that's pretty accurate.

Unlike other states, we actually get stuff, good stuff, for our tax $$: public health, education, museums, state parks, public transit, are all comparatively good in New England. We have oodles of businesses, including more small businesses to support instead of big box stores. A typical day for most people, including the fairly wealthy, is riding a tax-supported train to Boston, walking past a tax-funded library, tax-supported hospitals and a bunch of public art, to work at a business run by MIT and Haavaahd grads who got tax $$ for a grant to start the business. Weekends, we go swimming and fishing in a state park. It gives you a different perspective on the relative merits of taxation when you actually get really good stuff out of it.

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New England! I grew up in PA, but New England is my home.

 

[clickie]

Saw sun today, yahoo, it was something else!

lol it was sunny today too, after like a week of rain, been too rainy here in RI lol. Just hoping this summer is not going to be too hot lol.​