The World As NTodd And The Boyz Found It

Nora was musing in comments about being able to define how much lawn one has, and I got to thinking about how different life is in rural Vermont from where many of my readers live.  Figured I might as well give folks the fifty cent tour:

• Here's a little aerial of where we wander--courtesy of TerraServer (before they started charging for higher-res shots), this is what our neck of the woods looked like just a few days after I closed on the house back in '95.
• Red box is our property more or less--2 acres, mostly woods or meadow.  Yellow box inside that is our house and garage.  SW and NW are bounded by remnants of a stone wall.
• Atlas and Patrick are two of Mex's canine friends.  I haven't gotten pics of them yet.  Mason is the local troublemaker and probably Mex's best friend, natch.
• The school is where Mex and I play a lot.  The white splotch closest to our woods is one of the baseball diamonds.  If you drew a line for the SE corner of our house to the diamond, that would roughly be the path we take to get to the schoolyard, where we sometimes find interesting things.
• The Meadow is our favorite place for adventures.  Sam sometimes tags along, and sometimes we'll see creepy trees (this one finally fell down last autumn), cool toadstools, and lovely stars.
• The bog is where our road gets its name.  Sometimes we see ducks in there, and there's also a beaver that pretty much everybody else has seen.  I haven't.
• Mex has been to the swimming hole, but hasn't taken a dip yet.  It was Cairo's favorite place to cool off in the summer.
• The Fletcher General Store is, well, a store.  All that white area surrounding it is the parking lot.  See the little brown "island" in the lot with a white splotch in it?  That's where our SLC-96 is located--it's also why I can't get freaking DSL.
• Binghamville Methodist Church is a lovely little place whose bells I can hear toll through my open window in the warmer months.  Next to it is the cemetery that gave what everybody calls School Road its original name of Cemetery Road--quite honestly, I'm not sure which is the official E911 designation.

Slow news day, and it's been so warm I haven't felt like doing much, so there ya go...

ntodd