Pedestrians

Now that I am such a frequent pedestrian, I gotta tell you how impressed with drivers in Farmington. They stop for you. They stop even before you step out into the street. Somehow, they see you on the sidewalk and anticipate that you're going to cross the street and they stop. It's very impressive. In the half mile stretch of High Street that goes through UMF campus there must be at least 5 pedestrian walks. But in the snow, you can't see the painted stripes on the road and often pedestrians cross where they want to and not where the pedestrian walk is painted. The same is true on the half mile stretch of Main Street that goes through campus and downtown Farmington. It's very impressive.

Now I only hope that when I'm a driver I can a) remember to keep a lookout for pedestrians, b) anticipate their crossing, and c) stop in time.

Brown and blue eggs

It was like being back at Lamplighter! Dr. Maggy, who teaches elementary math methods, walked in my office last Thursday (Jan. 11) with a dozen eggs and said, "The first one's free. If you'd like more, they're $1.50 a dozen on Tuesdays and Thursdays." Inside the carton were brown and blue eggs. She told me they have Barred Rock chickens and Anaconda chickens. It was so fun to get to tell her about The Lamplighter Layers and our chickens and all that the kids did with them. As a chicken farmer herself AND as an elementary math teacher, she of course loved the story.

She said the grocery stores here only sell brown eggs. At easter time you can get white eggs. At Hannaford's, I checked. Yep. All brown eggs. There was a little stack of cartons of white eggs down in the corner of the refrigerator case.

I fixed scrambled eggs for dinner last night (Wed. Jan. 17). I couldn't find salt and pepper in the kitchen so I just fixed them without any salt and pepper. Good thing! They were delicious without any seasoning! I had scrambled eggs again for breakfast this morning!