Author: Judy Boardman

With another cold spell approaching, it’s probably time to empty the woodstove ashpan once again. For those of you who don’t have to do this chore, lucky you. Over the […]

A little while ago I was talking to an old-timer who grew up in Underhill. We were reminiscing about the old days here in town. He went back further in […]

The other day, during yet another rainy spell, I was watching the rain gutter downspouts spill water into a flower bed and thought about rain barrels. I went on Amazon […]

You have probably been asked this question many times; I know I have. If you had a lot of money……. The question next is… What is a lot of money? […]

Well, it happened again. It was like shifting from first to reverse, going from summer to winter gear. It usually happens sometime in the end of September when I start […]

In 1953, I was 5 years old and anxiously waiting to start first grade the next year. There was no kindergarten, no Head Start, no play schools, so you just […]

I’ve been thinking about my early memories of the VAE. Gael and I weren’t married — just dating — when on occasion we would go to the VAE meetings at […]

It was a Friday, and someone asked me what I had planned for Saturday. My answer was….going to the dump. Wasn’t that what everyone did Saturday morning? Not anymore, I […]

I was talking to a nice (cute) young man who is doing a little logging here on the property. He was saying that he had to go to Richmond to […]

Here we are once again, December, and the upcoming Christmas holiday. Thanksgiving is over and it’s all about leftovers and pumpkin pie for breakfast. Now it’s the craziness of Christmas. […]