Mrs 9s and I went away for a quick weekend excursion to Vermont and we took these pictures that I will now share with you!



Here's our hotel room. It was pretty freaking quaint!



It had this separate little sitting room. There was no tv, which was to be expected, and there was no phone!

Across the street there was this church and attached to the church was this graveyard...and here is the headstone of someone who faought during the revolutionary war:



In this small town of Grafton, not far from where we stayed, there was this Blacksmith's shop that you see here...



...and inside there was an actual blacksmith making stuff.



We also stopped at the Rockingham Meeting House, this old building where they used to have church services and town meetings, before the town which surrounds the Meeting House burned to the ground in 'aught 1.

Here is me in the pulpit with my raised fist, haranguing the congregation...



I bet that's what bluesbaby is like when she preaches...



Finally (well finally for now) we went and saw the house in Shaftesbury where the great American poet Robert Frost once lived. In fact it was in this house where he wrote perhaps his most famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," with that famous concluding line "and miles to go before I sleep..."

Here's a view of the inside:



And now for the moment that made our trip.



Out behind Frosts's house was this garage that didn't seem to be open to the public. The land was very well tended, as you can imagine, so there was probably a caretaker who kept his stuff in there. There was this green John Deere tractor parked facing into the garage and I thought to myself "wouldn't that make a good picture, me on a tractor!" but it didn't look that appealing from a distance. But when I got closer I saw, behind this little modern riding mower (for it came to little else), all the way in the back, behind tools and beams, covered in dust and laced with spider webs, and was this...






















































That's right, baby, Robert Frost's tractor!






something there is that does not love an edit...
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Mrs 9s and I went away for a quick weekend excursion to Vermont and we took these pictures that I will now share with you!



Here's our hotel room. It was pretty freaking quaint!



We also stopped at the Rockingham Meeting House, this old building where they used to have church services and town meetings, before the town which surrounds the Meeting House burned to the ground in 'aught 1.

Here is me in the pulpit with my raised fist, haranguing the congregation...



I bet that's what bluesbaby is like when she preaches...



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[Edited 10/4/05 8:59am]

OH, I AM MUCH MORE FRIGHTENING, HEATHEN, MUCH MORE! BRING ON THE BRIMSTONE!

bluesbaby said:

2the9s said:

Is that farting at me?????

bluesbaby said:

These are great shots. I love New England. I was last in Vermont about 6 years ago, and I miss it.

9s, when is the baby's due date?

Lammastide said:

This was the first time I've been there in about 15 years...I was trying to remember how long it's been. It's so beautiful.

Whereabouts did you go?

Lammastide said:

December 29th!

And we've picked a name!

http://blog.myspace.com/david2the9s

2the9s said:

We were passing through enroute from Massachusetts to Quebec. During our brief stop, we spent most of our time in and around Manchester (I wanted to visit the J.Peterman Co. and a nice restaurant we'd been to years before called The Buttery) and Burlington.

2the9s said:

quite eloquent, aren't you? and yes, I mean it.

bluesbaby said:

I'm gunning for your job!

Lammastide said:

Oh man! We drove through Manchester on Route 5! If I'd known J. Peterman was there I definitely would have taken a picture!

Lammastide said:

December 29th!

And we've picked a name!

http://blog.myspace.com/david2the9s

why was this thread necessary?

2the9s said:

I could tell.and its working lets trade for a while.

bluesbaby said:

My job is to keep Imago in check!

Hell yeah, let's trade!

2the9s said:

crap, I don't wanna keep him in check.....but we have had quite a few funerals, so the hearse would come in handy...

bluesbaby said:

I'm out of Orgnotes and must rest for our Sermon-off tomorrow at high noon!

nice pics! glad you had a good time and got to ride robert frost's tractor like a freakin' pervert.

JasmineFire said:

Hey!! There was nothing [overtly] sexual about it!!

JasmineFire said:

Hey!! There was nothing [overtly] sexual about it!!