For #Strataday: dolomite deposited on the balmy shores of the Iapetus ocean about 500 million years ago. See if you can spot the fault, which only formed after this unit went through an ocean closure, and orogeny and another rifting event that eventually formed the Atlantic Ocean.
Yes, it’s theoretically Spring, but that doesn’t seem to matter up here in #Vermont … got 8 inches (20cm) of the white stuff overnight and through the morning…
started a #wikipedia article on US home economist Harriet Cole Emmons (1873-1956), first president of the New York League of Business and Professional Women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Cole_Emmons @wikiwomeninred #homeeconomics #PrattInstitute #Vermont #WWI
What a cool library! I had no idea this even existed in Vermont/Canada and I am mad Amerikkka is ruining it.
https://www.nhpr.org/2025-03-21/locals-decry-plan-limit-canadian-access-haskell-library-border
U.S. to halt Canadian access to unusual cross-border library https://www.byteseu.com/856851/ #Advocacy #Canada #Department #Homeland #Immigration #issues #Kristi #KristiNoem #Libraries #N4NNews #N4NPolitics #Negative #Noem #of #Overall #OverallNegative #Politics #Security #social #SocialIssuesU0026Advocacy #U.S. #U.S.DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #u0026 #vermont #VISA #VisaU0026Immigration
#BurlingtonVT #PublicLibrary restarts #PlantExchange program
by EMMA FLETCHER-FRAZER, Mar 13, 2025
BURLINGTON — "The Burlington Public Library brought back this week its popular plant exchange program.
The Plant/#SeedSwap program uses a shelf within the library that holds a variety of #seeds, starts and #propagations."
Source:
https://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/burlington-public-library-restarts-plant-exchange-program/article_33dedc12-ff9a-11ef-a11a-9b4ec2643a9f.html
#LibrariesRule #SeedLibrary #PlantSwap #Vermont #SolarPunkSunday
US decision to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library prompts outpouring of emotion https://www.byteseu.com/851730/ #BarackObama #BorderSecurity #Canada #CanadaGovernment #ChrisBlais #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #GovernmentPrograms #JodyStone #KristiNoem #PennyThomas #Politics #UnitedStatesGovernment #vermont #VTStateWire #WorldNews
Vermont protests on April 5th:
Upper Valley
April 5, 1-2:30pm
4-4-0 Locomotive, 100 Railroad Row, Hartford
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765739/
Chester
April 5, 10am-12pm
Chester Information Booth, 9 West Main St., Chester
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765325/
Montpelier
April 5, 12-2pm
Vermont State Capitol, 115 State St, Montpelier
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765733/
Jericho-Underhill
April 5, 12-2pm
Intersection of River Road and VT 15, Jericho
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765012/
Franklin County
April 5, 12-2pm
Federal Building, 50 S Main St, Saint Albans City
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/766149/
Brattleboro
April 5, 12-2pm
Location TBD, check link
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765117/
New State Added: I've completed pie charts breaking out total population enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare & ACA exchange plans for the sole #VERMONT Congressional District:
Junior from Latvia at the center of UVM basketball success https://www.byteseu.com/833835/ #Albany #AlisaKresge #AmericaEastHardwood #AnnaOlson #bench #Catamounts #center #game #InternationalBasketballPlayers #JackMain #Latvia #LatviaBasketball #LatvianBasketballPlayer #LatvianBasketballPlayers #NBC5 #NCAABasketball #NCAASports #NikolaPriede #no #priede #Sports #stride #success #UvmBasketballSucsess #vermont #VermontWomen'sBasketball #Women'sBasketball
I don't usually (almost never!) do product recommendations on here but here goes. This is brought to the fore because it's featured on a local news story about #Vermont’s anti PFAS initiative.
Got onboard with this about 6 months ago and have been super happy.
Dr Tung's Dental Floss
Definitely expensive, but very nice to use, more effective, and PFAF free.
Don’t buy from Amazon, but directly:
https://drtungs.com/products/smart-floss.html#/22-quantity_in_each_pack-2_pack
Vermont voters:
Peter Welch is NO the CR and NO on cloture. Call to thank him.
https://www.welch.senate.gov/email-peter/
Bernie Sanders is unknown on cloture. He is voting no on the CR however. Call to urge him to vote NO on both the CR and cloture.
@ProjectFearlessness I saw St. Albans and got excited for a second... thought this was near me in #Vermont
"Addison said that in February, as a movement to boycott U.S. goods and services began picking up steam on the northern border, Canadians accounted for 30% less business on the company’s website than they had during the same period last year."
https://vtdigger.org/2025/03/13/as-u-s-canada-relations-sour-vermont-businesses-are-facing-boycotts/
Frost on Wild Parsnip
(this was a few years ago. I've pretty nearly completely eliminated the wild parsnips from my meadow by now)
Took a nice walk yesterday along a mountain stream in Vermont. It's still not spring, but recent heavy rains and warm spells have produced some interesting examples of ice acting as sediment, as sheet ice gets broken up and transported down stream.
