Thought this was /r/woodstoving for a second! This is a very popular topic over there.

It’s the only way I’ll start my stove from cold (if there are already some hot coals I guess it’s not technically top down). The ol Jotul is gonna get a workout these next few days. Brought in almost 1/4 cord this week so far already and that will probably only last through tomorrow.

K well as many people have said this isn’t a font, and the font used on many many fire engines is standard across the country. I can guarantee you will not get a helpful answer by callingVSP - and when you call the non emergency number you’re still talking to a dispatcher, just not a regional e911 dispatcher.

You think the dispatcher at VSP knows the answer to this question?

Depends who your maple guy is. I literally get my maple from the guy down the road but he puts it in actual maple jugs because he owes me about 4gal/year and that’d be way too many mason jars.

It should also be protected from light so a clear jar is a bad choice.

The bottle probably says right on it - the ones I use do. Refrigerate after opening and in the odd event that mold forms just scrape it off the top and reboil the syrup.

It will last damn near indefinitely in the freezer.

The other morning I was cruising down 89 south by exit 15, yknow the one where there’s like 3/4 of a mile to merge but everyone merges the second the other lane is accessible.

A car that was not even remotely cleaned off came on and merged in front of me. Literally encased in snow. They had scraped out a hole the size of a dinner plate to look out of, and had the drivers window open so they could smoke their cigarette.

For some reason when I passed her and gave her the finger she got really upset…and then as she was trying to angrily speed pat me a huge sheet of compacted snow flew off her roof and smashed the car behind her…..

Fuck that noise. This is one time where I am a proud NIMBY.

>One root of the problem in Vermont is that so many people have so very little interaction with BIPOC

As a lifelong vermonter this is a huge part of the problem. The result is well intended people being overtly racist without realizing what they are doing. It's like they see BIPOC and HAVE to act different to prove how not racist they are. And in the end they are basically just being racist.

For instance my grandmother is a pretty open minded person, would never intentionally be overtly racist, loves her BIPOC neighbors, but every time she meets someone with a skin tone slightly darker than hers she just HAS to ask "where are you from!?" - and when they so "oh, Michigan!" she goes "but, like originally?" and understandably people are like "uhhh I mean my ancestors were brought here as slaves, so...."

So i see a lot of that. Racism wrapped in kindness and ignorance.

Yes I am 😘

Lol I was being pretty tame but since you’re gonna be like that - I don’t need to know anything about your families background to know that you’re just like everyone else coming here to ruin our real estate for your own good under the guise of wanting to live the VT life all the while not wanting to abide by the facts of life in VT (like not being able to get someone to be at your beck and call to build a house in this current economical/supply chain/manual labor climate).

FWIW I’m really not a VT NIMBY/gatekeeper but your post really rubs me the wrong way and makes me not want to have you as my neighbor.

lol good luck. I'm sure this post will allow you to circumvent the 8000 other people waiting for a contractor and will allow you to build your second home in a years time before people who need first homes. Lemme guess, ya wanna move up here cuz we're so "quaint" and "quiet" and "simple" - well guess what, quaint, quiet, and simple means that you're gonna have to wait for some stuff.

Also i think you're looking for a builder and not a contractor. Similar but different. Most builders are contractors (or have contractors) but not all contractors are builders. Ideally you need someone who is going to coordinate all aspects of permitting, design, and building.

After that attempt to find an apartment that you can afford and then a job that pays or exists.

COL in that area of upstate NY seems to be considerably lower than much of Vermont. And that's a relatively easy drive to multiple large job areas in VT. Add onto that the title loophole and you've got NY residents with VT jobs and VT vehicles.

My first thought as well - what in the phishing phuck is this?

Maybe take off the overlaid caption as well.

Runamok is the move for neat gifts. Unfortunately you won't find what you're looking for at the price you're looking at.

We don't produce our own but our neighbor taps almost 1000 of our trees and gives us syrup (and some cash) in return. He just gives me gallon jugs, and while I do basically drink the stuff I have to try to go through a gallon in a year. So we are left with usually a half dozen gallons or so of syrup which is way more than we need.

So what we do is have a day sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas where my wife and I have drinky poos, we warm up a shitload of the sryup in a giant carafe, and then we aliquot it off into smaller more decorative bottles.

This year we gave syrup to everyone in our immediate and extended family, all of my employees, and all of my wife's employees. It was over 60 12oz bottles. Final cost for us was something like $2/bottle but that's because the syrup was free. I honestly have no clue what a gallon of syrup would cost you (depends on many things) but I can buy one from my neighbor for about $40-$50 depending on the season. That will make 10 12oz bottles. So you're looking at about $7 per bottle in that case which isn't bad.

I haven’t eaten there in 5+ years but before that I NEVER had a decent dining experience there. The food was always great but the experience of getting it was always trash. Hope that’s changed.

Waterworks - where we have a waterfall so people think we’re a really good restaurant.

Recently acquired title of “restaurant everyone thinks is fancy but really isn’t” from Sweetwaters.

Literally makes me cringe seeing people trip over one another to talk about how amazing and unique waterworks is.

Just use your card and enjoy the sweet exchange rate.

Why don’t you just, like, bury them??

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Locked in our propane at $2.90/gal I believe, on the budget program to basically pre buy 800 gallons with the cost spread over 12mo. Works out to $250ish per month I think (lots of bills changed these past few months so I may have screwed that up). Much better than paying close to $1000 every few weeks in the winter, though. Just in the month of December we refilled once (300g tank, so about 200 gallon of propane delivered).

Have also burned about a cord of wood in our wood stove so far this season. Wood is free from our land (although I did buy 1.5 cord this year due to having a kid) Main heat is baseboard/hydronic.

House is 2400sqft, about 400sqft of which is a newer addition with vaulted ceilings. Woodstove is in the addition so most of the heat gets trapped in there with it being an addition with high ceilings.

All zones set at 65 but addition and first floor are 70-75 when the wood stove has been running for a bit. Second floor is always 65.

Same lol. Then once I finally did stop I called my dad who said I likely boiled my brake fluid. Told me I just had to wait for it to cool off.

So of course that meant throw snow/water at the rotors since that will totally cool the brake fluid.

He does have enough hipsterness to be from Brooklyn. Fair enough.

I love people who think class 4 roads are off-roading lol

I think every teenager who goes skiing at Bolton has to burn up their brakes on the access road at least once.

I tried to pour water on mine at the bottom. Boy did they pulse after that.

All of these words make me think you have no idea what you’re asking and that your car can’t do what you want to do with it…..