21 May 2015

Fairly cold again last night and early this morning, so stained another batch of shingles before the mosquitoes came out.  A good thing, too, as the headline article in the local newspaper was about some idiot in the State Department of Agriculture who suddenly has decided that the BLSG Commission (in operation for at least 50 years) is a municipality.  The person who made this decision needs to get away from his/her desk more!  As a municipality, so the lack of reasoning goes, the BLSG is not allowed to spray for mosquitoes on private roads, i.e., virtually every road around Lakes Dunmore and Fern.  The Dept of Ag idiot wants the BLSG to apply for a non-commercial spraying license, which would allow them to spray on private roads.  (Sorry, I’m confused: if the BLSG is eligible for a license that allows them to spray on private roads, doesn’t that mean they are NOT a municipality?)  Of course, until this all gets sorted out, the mosquitoes will continue to multiply because no spraying is being done.  Living in Washington these past two decades, I thought the Federal government was screwed up.  Guess the Vermont bureaucrats have been taking lessons in how not to govern.  Finished putting shingles on the south side of the Sauna building.  When not staining or stapling, worked on the detailed design for the benches that will be built inside the sauna.