Grocery store returns to Lebanon

All within walking distance. Can't wait.
From the Valley News

Happy homeownership - welcome the hornets

Ray has gotten stung on 2 separate occasions, once with only one sting and the second with 3 stings. We're lucky he hasn't had a serious reaction. One time was when he was working with the BBQ and a hornet came out of the log embankment and stung him. The one this morning was while he was mowing along the fence, where he got stung 3 times.
We're attempting to deal with this. I've done some research that hornets' nests die after the summer when the weather gets cold, so we won't have to deal with them in these locations next year.
Strange thing is I've been gardening for months and (knock on wood) have yet to run into this. Lucky me I haven't attempted to plant the daylilies, which I plan to put in the vicinity of these apparent nests!

Free patio stones

Boy, were we excited to find these. Thanks to UVList.org were were able to find a bunch of fairly large, flat field stones, beautiful, with a bit of an iron hue to them... and for free! We picked up about 60 stones Friday, for the patio and stepping area we'll put in this Fall. Turns out, the person looking to get rid of the stones was one of Ray's former yoga students!
Thanks, cboone, for a great UVresource!

Lucky for us...

We got our water bill - a charge that comes quarterly by the City of Lebanon. We were excited to see that ours was a 1/3 of our neighbors - at only $67 as opposed to $250. Must be the low-flow 1.6 gallon toilet (as opposed to the usual 5 gallon flush) and the front load washer that uses an incredibly small amount of water. That's all I can figure - there's two of them that live there, and two of us, so we're guessing its their lawn watering, and ?? Maybe we're feeding off their line...?

Glad to know we're working with water efficiency here!
We also knew when we bought our house that it only uses less than 600 gallons/year for heating fuel! We are excited about this, knowing that its an older home, and the walls are incredibly thick and insulated properly. And we were able to get a discount rate on oil for this winter - at $1.81/gallon! A deal we got as a group thru Dartmouth.