Tag: Environment

  • Kids, Friends and MSG

    “You’re right. We both could have careers,” she said. I nodded. “But could we really live full time in the boonies? Where the closest healthy supermarket is in Vermont, a ferry ride away?” “I could. I have.” “Maybe I could… Our friends here lead great lives, right?” “Right.” “They have so much more to talk…

  • Re-roofing and Flood Proofing

    Re-roofing and Flood Proofing

      Last summer (June-July 2010) our biggest concern with Rosslyn’s boathouse was restoring the roof. It’s hard to imagine that a year later our biggest concern is saving the building, pier and waterfront from finally-receding-but-increasingly-rough Lake Champlain flood waters! What better way to distract our anxieties than to look back on drier times? The cedar…