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We used to do 10-2 at a joint in Glens Falls, that sucked, and it was before I had a 3 year old climbing into bed at 6am. I'm glad we don't do that anymore. Our latest now is 12:30, and it's only 10 minutes home for me. We also don't play too much, but a busy summer schedule does get old between band, work and family. However, I miss it something awful when we're not playing, so I'll carry in as long as I can. I've never been one to party, it's all about playing music for me. I am the lame one, I duck behind stage and read a book on breaks, but I've been that way for as long as I can remember. Whereabouts in the state did you play out of curiosity? What kind stuff?

I'm really wanting to get a babysitter soon so my wife and I can go skiing. Is anyone skiing, and if so, what do the mountains look like right now with the lack of snow so far this season? We usually go up to Gore.

I'm in the same boat as far as parties go. They have essentially both become sports teams that compete for how outraged they can make their fan base. I participated for a while until I realized how miserable I was being angry all of the time.

I bought a Butterfinger when I stopped and got gas this afternoon. I thought that was an impulse buy.... Enjoy that car, it's a dandy!

That whole Rensselaer Plateau area is beautiful, and supposedly there are species up there that you'll find nowhere else in the northeast. I don't know that they've had any staff lay eyes on the moose up there, but he said they had trail camera photos, and had seen tracks.

I read about this in the current Conservationist. They are certainly making something of a comeback. There is a population on the Rensselaer Plateau, one of my colleagues at Dyken Pond had some on a trail camera this past fall.

I was just talking with someone about this the other day. It sounds like it will be a nice rifle. Those big bore guns seem to have regained some popularity in the past few years.

Enough to know that you're wrong for comparing your situation to it, and to find it shameful that you continue to defend it. I'm done, this whole conversation is wrong and disgusting.

What rights have you lost? I can agree with you guys in mandates not being effective or fair, and that you should have a right to choose. But to say that you are headed towards a totalitarian genocide because you can't get into a Grateful Dead concert is ridiculous and disrespectful to that whole period of history and the people who had to suffer it.

Not true, I might not be an expert on 1930's Germany, but whatever bit of discomfort you may feel for being unvaccinated is nothing like that. You can frame it like that, but it's not true. It's not even close, not even close. You are just taking that bar and movingly it lower with this stuff. Framing yourself as that much of a victim is despicable.

I'm sorry, I was going to ignore most of this, but it is despicable that you equate the "plight" of the unvaccinated to the genocide of the Jewish people. We get it, you don't like it, you feel singled out and disadvantaged, but you are not being shipped to concentration camps, you're not being systematically killed for your beliefs. Dial it back a little Grouse, you might feel like a victim, but your not in the same league.

I've got a volunteer who is going to take me out this winter. My goal is to put together a 4-H program for next year. There's a ton of cool projects we can do with it. I'm hoping to get some grants for fish finders and cameras as well so the kids can see what's going on below the water.

There's some truth in the 2nd part of your statement. In the end, it's clear that you and I view the world through drastically different lenses, which is fine.

Here's one of the cabins she has, I think there are 4 of them all together. I think we've actually stayed in all 4, and I haven't hated any of them. https://www.airbnb.com/s/homes?guests=1&adults=1&c=.pi0.pk347348896_92333422234&sem_automaid=true&gbraid=0AAAAADz55Lkni2kZ3wd9yzEz4eBjrfBjb&gclid=CjwKCAiAxJSPBhAoEiwAeO_fP6tyY7BvDuSi4-yLVi1ziTV1bk6s3gJqbHir3-slPdBrNGxpetWJxxoCAHMQAvD_BwE&dynamic_product_ids[]=2367883&omni_page_id=27964

Woodstock looks beautiful, but I've only driven through it. We stay near Stowe. Since it's got the mountain, there are plenty of restaurants and stuff, and in the off season, it's pretty quiet. However, most of the restaurants and shops are open. Our favorite is the Von Trapp Family Lodge. Good food and beer, along with a ton of cool taxidermy in the restaurant. A lot to do around there, and just drive around and see in general. I can pass along the cabins we stay in if you want to look at them. The owner is a little hippieish, but they are clean, rustic and pet friendly. We're staying south of Stowe this time around at a different place since our other cabins were booked. Still looks like a nice place though.

It's nice, my wife really likes it. However, I'm not a big tourist fan, and it's crawling in the summer. I prefer our Vermont trips myself.

I'm not sure where I fall on her time as governor, but she has always graciously came and spoken to our 4-H teens when we have done our annual Capitol Days trip. She was in 4-H as a youth, and always talks about how the skills she learned in 4-H have helped her, she has never spoken politics to the youth. I am thankful for the help she's been to us in the past, and she's always been friendly the few times I have interacted with her. We are hopeful that she will talk to the teens again this year as governor.

I pushed for a lake house, but my wife likes being closer to the coast. We usually are somewhere around Freeport/Brunswick.

We just booked a long weekend airbnb in Vermont for the end of March, and a place in Maine for August. It's nice to have something to look forward to. I hope you guys have a great trip!

Stay safe everyone. Here in Ballston Spa, they have no idea what we are going to get. The meteorologist says anywhere from 1-12 inches.

I don't know, I have seen plenty of nasty behavior from all extremes. Early on in the Trump presidency, I thought the worst of it was coming from the right, then I saw how nasty the left was. I probably hit one of my lowest points early on as well. Now I don't want any part of either. The bar just keeps getting set lower and lower. I'm glad that you and I can discuss civilly though. I hold out hope, naive as it may be.

I just feel like Trump brought out the worst in good people, myself included. To see people wishing death on a president, or anyone (like that comedian did holding up Trump's head) or wrecking the Capitol because of incendiary speech, we're not in a good place right now. I know people who won't even talk their family any or because of politics. Trump doesn't bear the total weight of that, there's plenty of blame to go around, but he certainly was a catalyst for it, and played divisions to his advantage, as did many others. I guess I should say that I don't think Biden has played to division as much as Trump did. However, he promised "unity" and so far hasn't delivered, and I am very disappointed in that.

I mean it's all subjective, so I believe you.

I was just ready to say something similar. I've never done either in a crockpot, but I'd need hard proof before I said squirrel was superior to rabbit

Impressive, but how are your Copy and Paste skills? Seriously, I always enjoy and appreciate your input.