Author: Emily Dolloff

This weekend my cousin and her Fiance are coming for a quick visit. They will be coming up from Boston to look at some potential wedding venues and they are going to show me how to properly cook in my Instant Pot. I got my Instant Pot two years ago, but honestly, I don’t know how to use it. Seeing as my cousin and her Fiance use theirs all the time I’ve asked them to finally show me how to use mine!

After my cooking lesson, I’ll work off a good meal with a Vermont tradition, wood stacking. Perhaps this isn’t an actual tradition, but the work needs to be done none the less. Our woodstove isn’t our primary heat system but we do enjoy the added warmth when the cold weather really sets in.

Thank you for reading,

Emily & Mike

Dear Friends,

This week we saw snow flurries just about every day, a sure sign winter is coming. The higher elevations have snow sticking to the mountain tops and the trails are turning white at Sugarbush. We have been taking advantage of the still somewhat mild weather around my house and working to get the horse barn ready for another winter. Our big fall project this week was fixing a water line issue, our barn hydrant failed part way through last winter. We had assumed it somehow froze but why June when water still wasn’t coming out we knew we had bigger problems. Thankfully, we have a second water hydrant so it was just an inconvenience for several months. I’m happy we have finally fixed the issue.

We are eagerly anticipating Apple’s announcement next week. Customers are always surprised to hear that we do not have any special intel when it comes to Apple product announcements. We have to do what everyone else does, guess. Added excitement to this event is a new location and time zone, we all want to know what Apple has to reveal.

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