NEWS TO CHASE THE BLUES - FEBRUARY'S END IS IN SIGHT

Everybody's back from the mid-winter break.

I hear that Northshire Bookstore is having a book signing evening and Bunny is one of their featured writers! Save April 4th and join the Sandgate literari at this wonderful event.

Kudos to the moviegoers of Sandgate who had the cinema smarts to pick SlumDog Millionaire as the year's best picture. Apparently, the Academy agreed with us.

They say that young people in the great State of Vermont are an endangered species. Not so in Sandgate! There were many children and their parents spotted on Tudor Road at the 2nd Annual Sledding Party. They were doing what we Bunny style Sandgaters used to do, fire up the sauna and the barbecue, and watch our children happily sledding down the hill.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

It is a beautiful morning in Sandgate. The air is crisp. The sky is blue. The birds are flying to their feeders and my thoughts are flying to Bunny in Arizona. I'm wondering what Valentine's Day looks like there.

Counting

It is always a new day when my brain deletes recent but not consistently used information. Like where in my computer I have put what. I am better by rote. Bunny counts, as I count, what we have or are doing, stitches, logs stacked or loaded in the basement wood bin, out of state license plates on the Thruway.  She once told me, upon arrival for a party, that she counted the steps to my house, deep in the woods, 1500. The walk in the woods was so boring, counting was the only way to compliment the effort. Amazed I was, that someone would not like a walk in the woods, but then very few people visited, it was far from where one could park. Lately I have been yo-yoing in and out of the city via the Thruway, counting out-of- state license plates, thinking of spying them with Bunny riding shot-gun in my mind's eye game, counting and re-counting in a rhythm to remember the list to share with her, laughing, at some future time, as counting in the moment is the only way to compliment the 2 & 1/2 hours on that road. Touring the USA and Canada by foreign plates, the core, NY, NJ, PA,CONN, and Quebec, New England would be MA, RI, NH, Maine and VT, but not my car, there has to be another VT car to count, S Carolina, VA, FL, TENN, and then IL &  Wisconsin! orange with black letters! 16 cars dedicated to Bunny! One of my best days. Lately, dirt and road salt covers the plates and I cannot tell the really exotic ones traveling 75+ mph. Game over, what shall I count? Back to dividing mile markers by travel time? Always scanning for police and changes in the landscape, the goal up to Vermont or down to the city, when will I see you again?

Leslie Fuller

OH WINTER...

The ground hog saw his shadow and folks are feelin' the february cabin fever foibles...NOT!

In beautiful downtown Sandgate the Bunny buzz from yesterday's lunch meet is all about the best movies to see...like Slum Dog Millionaire...and the prettiest disappointments...like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button...
AND where to go to see films these days...The Village Picture Show in Manchester is showing
Milk (a good Sean Penn movie) and The Reader which is supposed to great! Kate Winslet is said to have done an academy award performance! The skinny from the lunch crowd on the Academy is that they are SOOOO in love with Brangelina that the awards will probably go to Brad for Benjamin Button (humph!).
The best news is that the newly owned and operated Village Picture Show Theater in Manchester is warm and has a 4PM Matinee for 5 bucks!
Could you ask for more in February?

Commenting on POSTS

Hello All - Please note - it's easy to comment on the POSTS being made. After the entry - where it says Comments - click on "COMMENT" (if there are comments will have the number of comments listed also) - write your comment - it seems to need the "profile" anonymous - in the Comment field named "Comment as" - so see the drop-down list of profiles and choose anonymous.
It's a nice way for us to share and reflect the entries each of us make. Even though the comment will say anonymous - you can add you name at the end of the entry in the comment box - so we know who's making the comment. I just commented to Nancy's Post on driving - but forgot to put my name at the end.
Thanks - more soon - Jayne

Good morning, Bunny... and friends.... Some of you may not know that Bunny has wisely given up driving after a mishap on Jan. 20th. Bunny fared better than the car and has decided that it is not practical to have it fixed. Bunny and Mallory and I had a wonderful outing the other day and we made her promise to let us know her needs. On her part, she asked that we e-mail the night before if we are going to Manchester or Bennington and would not mind taking her along. Like most of us, it is hard to ask but easy to pick up on an invitation!

Looks like we dodged a bullet on this latest storm but winter still seems long this year. I am looking forward to a Florida trip though I will miss some time Bunny and I had planned there together... Bunny... we will visit TJMaxx when I get back! Love, Nancy

Hi Bunny, Another Sunday in Sandgate. The day old snow is heavily tracked up by mice seeking fallen bird seed, two red squirrels who played tag between a large maple, several saplings and the stone wall with three openings to their underworld. The day old snow has a grey tinge from falling wood smoke. Stillness beckons more snow. Leslie