The Landscape thread

[Soldier415]

My wife is from Calais. Her yellow lab spent a good year in Vermont with her prior to moving to NC. Although the dogs ashes are burried in our garden here, some of those ashes are spread out on the road to #2 pond outside of Calais, as you couldn't keep that dog out of the water and we all agreed that it would only be fitting for some of her to be laid up there LOL Forgot to add, that lab would love a good 5 ft stick and try and have you take it off her. She'd go swinging it back and forth snorting, that if you got to close, she could hurt you LOL

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From the mail box walking to the house. You can see the garden in the background.

Small world. My wife is from Calais too!

 

[Sigarms]

Small world. My wife is from Calais too!

It can be (a small world).

If your wifes family is still in Calais, I have little doubt that they knew my MIL. She use to run the post office up there, but has since retired and now is living an hour south of us. FIL spent 30 years working for Washington Electric Co-op running power lines. He's actually enjoying the warmer weather to (surprised us all). I was born north of Vermont, and our two boys (from NC) love to spend time in Vermont, but they only go up in the summer and tell use they want to move up there, but they complain like all heck when it's 30 degrees here in the winter LMAO.

Sidenote - last day our yellow lab was with us. Made sure she could spend one last time in the water in the creek out back. Talking about #2 made me think of her. GREAT dog.

 

[Soldier415]

It can be (a small world).

If your wifes family is still in Calais, I have little doubt that they knew my MIL. She use to run the post office up there, but has since retired and now is living an hour south of us. FIL spent 30 years working for Washington Electric Co-op running power lines. He's actually enjoying the warmer weather to (surprised us all). I was born north of Vermont, and our two boys (from NC) love to spend time in Vermont, but they only go up in the summer and tell use they want to move up there, but they complain like all heck when it's 30 degrees here in the winter LMAO.

Sidenote - last day our yellow lab was with us. Made sure she could spend one last time in the water in the creek out back. Talking about #2 made me think of her. GREAT dog.

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Seems like she went out happy.

My wife moved away from Calais when she was 12. Her family is clustered on Berlin Pond

 

[RobertBrown]

 

[RobertBrown]

 

[Wakey]

These were taken at home. I’m coming up on year 4 at this property. I might be done in a couple more years.



This is from the back yard looking towards the front

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Wow! You are truly blessed...that is breathingtakingly beautiful.

 

[Skagit]

Home

 

[Agvg]

Not quite spring time yet.

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[RobertBrown]

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[LS Tractor Owner]

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????.... is the beard the landscape? .... I am lost...

 

[Sigarms]

Not quite spring time yet.

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Whenever I see a place and think to myself how cool it must be to live there, I always seem to forget that sometimes it's not as cool as I think if I'm living there year round in reality.

For myself, that is the perfect back yard. I'm also guessing you get a WAY lot more snow than I do LOL

 

[Agvg]

Whenever I see a place and think to myself how cool it must be to live there, I always seem to forget that sometimes it's not as cool as I think if I'm living there year round in reality.

For myself, that is the perfect back yard. I'm also guessing you get a WAY lot more snow than I do LOL

Not much snow, its only 100m above sea level.

 

[Agvg]

On my way up the valley

 

[Agvg]

Some more

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Whenever I see a place and think to myself how cool it must be to live there, I always seem to forget that sometimes it's not as cool as I think if I'm living there year round in reality.

For myself, that is the perfect back yard. I'm also guessing you get a WAY lot more snow than I do LOL

Funny you should mention that. Sharn Jean and I visited St. Thomas USVI on a cruise ship; spent a day there and loved it. I thought it was the most beautiful place I had ever been, and Magen's Beach was breathtaking. I even said that would be a great place to retire.

We returned a couple years later; rented a small villa and spent a week there. There's no way I would want to live there after that week. The reasons are many, but the main reason is IT'S A SMALL ISLAND; it's very expensive; nothing in common with the residents there, and they drive on the wrong side of the road!

 

[Sigarms]

We returned a couple years later; rented a small villa and spent a week there. There's no way I would want to live there after that week. The reasons are many, but the main reason is IT'S A SMALL ISLAND; it's very expensive; nothing in common with the residents there, and they drive on the wrong side of the road!

When I was single and free as a bird, my old company would basically move me pretty much anywhere I wanted to on the East Coast, as long as they had an opening (which seemed like every year back then). Moved to what I thought was a really cool "southern" town after spending some vacation time there, and after about a 3 months living there, it hit me that being on vactation and actually living there are two entirely two separate things.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

When I was single and free as a bird, my old company would basically move me pretty much anywhere I wanted to on the East Coast, as long as they had an opening (which seemed like every year back then). Moved to what I thought was a really cool "southern" town after spending some vacation time there, and after about a 3 months living there, it hit me that being on vactation and actually living there are two entirely two separate things.

EXACTLY!!!!!

 

[Agvg]

Out fishing

 

[Sigarms]

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Man, I'd love to live there. Could you do me a favor and post pics of what it looks like in wintertime fishing there in the same spot?

I LOVE the lake where my wife grew up in Vermont when we visited in the summer time we use to always visit. Thing is, we never visited when it was winter season, mud season or fly season. Taxes was another story