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Inspired by a young girl's healing ritual in song form. My FPV flights with a Cinewhoop on a beautiful fall day. Vermont is a healing place even when the trees are getting ready for Winter. Darling hold tight. Swallow your pride. I've got enough light for two. Let me heal you youtu.be/kBOaxc5iRU0

Upgrading my electrical service. I’ve wanted to do this for years. Can you tell I’m excited? youtu.be/ffzbl0BuUV0?...

L2 Charging at 10A! $500 Solar panels, used $800 EG4 6000XP, refurbished $1200 5kWh Vatrer heated battery $400 tools (the laser level was key) $500 materials

First row is up!

Sketched a one page plan… and after a bunch of tools and materials, I have a ground mount for 3kW of used panels.

Legend in our time. youtu.be/6xBAOsZqphw?...

A quick waterfall buzz on a cloudy day. Bartlett falls Bristol, VT youtu.be/_7XhgV1L47Q?...

Europe is suffering through its worst heat wave ever recorded. The climate crisis is here. To solve it, we need to solve another crisis, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXURo0FUjM

The real cost of DOGE youtu.be/1uxhMR29GPs?...

Bar hill gin celebrating bees knees week.

Thank you Jamie Raskin! Let the indictments of Trump’s stooges begin! I just took some compliance training on corruption and it’s ludicrous how corruption is er… WAS not being prosecuted. youtu.be/yV3V1AWrDIY?...

Aurora plus Tom of Chemical Brothers hits some textures and grooves that exceed expectations. youtu.be/6kyFT-lx2t0?...

science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble... Gettin that sense of wonder.

The markets were up yesterday! Dumb markets. My personal perspective is that there’s more cash money than value. Too much banking 10x leverage and global tricks like the Yen carry trade. Peter Zeihan shows the foundations are creaking. youtu.be/DSMbL5gCZwc?...

Put the chairs on the deck too early!

A Rutland night.

$5.45 per gallon of #2 home heating fuel! I just got a delivery, and it's about $250 more than I was hoping to pay.

Had a great time at Great Ice in North Hero last night. youtu.be/C4ZpgK3lK2Q?...

Just gave a small donation to the ACLU. Are there any other ways I can help create some optimism? Are there any organizations who are going to be monitoring elections at mid-terms I can support?

My escape from the news and this whole timeline for a few minutes: youtu.be/adHhJUTZ9Kw?... Aurora's Dreams with Nichole Zignago

Musicians and music lovers. I just want to make sure you are following State Azure on youTube. Also check out the Airwolf and Tangerine dream covers. The best stuff is his improv livestreams. youtu.be/jjaCaAsckbk?...

An Rc plane aerial flight is Jon Gailmor’s home of Elmore VT. Set to Jon’s anthem for this beauty. vimeo.com/59691801

I’m so sad Jon Gailmor is gone. vtdigger.org/2025/12/15/j...

“But the dog did nothing in the night!” Holmes: “That is the curious incident.” Wait for minute 36 for that line. youtu.be/fNfpel0c2J8?...

Woke to a few inches.

Get ready for more uninsured neighbors in VT. This is gonna hurt. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Exercise, paired with indulgence.

Likely auroras between tomorrow the 16th and the 18th! This is my kind of forecast: youtu.be/pAZtua4DZUs?...

Time to dig in and fight the turn toward authoritarianism. I have been avoiding the saddening signs, thinking that the next election will surely turn the tables. This video shows how badly that passive approach will fail. youtu.be/DfmViBWBXgE?...

Harvest moon!

Ian Flemming’s Thunderball in Radio Drama format. I’m enjoying it. youtu.be/Q_MRl0Qr1XM?...

White ash is glowing.

Reading an article about ad blockers:

The episode that got Kimmel suspended. He didn’t say anything unreasonable. The murderer’s grandma confirmed it days before. youtu.be/-j3YdxNSzTk?...

I just subscribed to Jimmy Kimmel on vs YouTube. They went from 20 million up to 20.7 million in the last two days.

This is the world I’m desperately missing. Obama in Germany in 2013. youtu.be/fhse6js54aw?...

When best practices are studied and followed. Beautiful smart things happen. youtu.be/XmC8uaon8SY?...

Another critter.

Cute family of raccoons!

In 2014, in only her second show with a band, Aurora enchanted both critics and music industry people with a mesmerizing performance at by:Larm in Oslo, Norway. One reviewer stated that she ‘hypnotized’ everyone in the venue.

People showing up in Burlington, Vermont! #nokings #50501vt #indivisable

Every generation seems to need to make its own STOOPID mistakes. Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu don't understand what we grew up learning... They only way to win at war is not to start. youtu.be/MpmGXeAtWUw?...

Cohabitants in the back yard.

That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. They have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ~ Carl Sagan

Leo Sampson Golden's Gaff Cutter restoration "Tally Ho" is something my Brother and I would watch on weekends in his final months. The seven year project is summarized in this 15 minute video. It still chokes me up when the jackyard topsail is deployed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjN...

YouTube? Too much irksome reality. Netflix? Kinda dramatic. Finally found a nice 15 minute landscape to escape to. Phish - Ruby Waves youtu.be/6UwdQJEYYuY?...