The End of Finals

Okay Survivors great news from the land of Lyndon. My finals have officially been completed and I am now only waiting for the final grades to show up on my transcript. Let me tell you I think this was my most stressful semester yet and believe me I brought it right down to the wire on this one.

I had two presentations, 3 papers, and a portfolio all due this week and so far so good on the grading. Oh, and by the way one of those presentations was my Senior Thesis, which I'm going to brag about. I managed to impress my professor so much that he came right out and said I had a great presentation.. Yup, that happened.

But in all seriousness I want to know where the hell the semester went. I mean I just started my senior year and I'm already halfway through? I mean don;t get me wrong I am totally ready for the month long break but I'm starting to realize just how close graduation is.

I'll go into that freak out later but I just wanted to give you all an update and let you know I'm not going completely insane yet... Just most of the way there, now it's on to Christmas, which my lovely fiance Nick will be there for, and a month of work at Michael's. Oh and seriously if you want to catch up with me while I'm home give me a shout. I don't have too much planned yet.

Talk at you soon and Keep on surviving.

Allie

Study Break with Six Feet to Heaven.

Live performance of Six feet to Heaven's "Beefcake"

Slideshow set to Six Feet's "Black Rose"


Saturday, December 13, Lyndon State College held a Study Break for it's students. They asked campus bands and musicians to come perform for their community.
Lucky enough for me Six Feet to Heaven was one of those bands Which allowed me to follow up on my previous video of them in the studio. This time I got them Live and bring to you one of their most popular songs, Beefcake.

I also included a slideshow of pictures from their performance. These are set to another one of their songs called Black Rose. My personal favorite.

I talked to the guys after the show and found out they hope to start recording in the studio after break and from their hope to bring you a CD including both these songs and many more.

Practice with a Local Band

So this week I sat in on Six Feet to Heaven’s band practice, the song above is called “I’m not Lost at All” and is a regular in their set list.

Six Feet is a campus band that was started last year by a group of freshman with the same love of music and need to play that music. Though the band has changed some of its members this year it still has the same great songs and a few more surprises for its upcoming shows.

The Band consists of Lead singer- Asher Hill, Bassist- Nick Potter, Lead Guitarist – Dan Martin, Back up Guitarist- Zeb McCoy, and Drummer/ Backup Vocalist – Greg Plourde.

Though much goofing off does happen in practice they also get a lot done. While I sat in on their two hour allotted practice I watched them go through almost a whole set list and still have time to mess around and come up with a few surprises for their upcoming show.

After practice I talked to Nick about was it was like being a member of this band, to which he replied, “It often feels like I am babysitting a loving bunch of crocodiles with ADD, but since they have put up with me I have come to enjoy there crazy antics and have even started to initiate them. As soon as the music starts though, that’s what I love about them, our styles of playing mold together into whatever kind of song we are playing and we become not five different musicians but five goofballs who create one sound with all of our styles melding and making it ours.”

After you listen to their music you can’t even deny that their styles do meld to make some great music. I also asked Nick what was in the future for the band.

                “We are preparing for our show on December 4^th, here at the college. And we also have a show coming sometime in the next few weeks.”

So there you have it if you would like to see more from this band you can go out to their show on Thursday and see them live. If you can’t make it to the show you can also find their music on sound cloud, and find them on Facebook.  

As for me I’ll be at the show on Thursday and hope to see you there. 

It's Black Friday People not Black Thanksgiving

So... Thanksgiving break is only a week away. This is a great thing and I have called my boss at Michael's to tell her that I can work over vacation. Again great I can get a little extra cash... Downside? Michael's is open from 4pm to 2am on Thanksgiving... I am hoping I will get it off and only have to work Black Friday, I know that sounds insane but I would rather work that than Thanksgiving. I know I know I shouldn't complain they are giving me hour over break when they don't have to but still... In my opinion it's one of those holidays that the only stores that should be open are grocery stores and even those should close at a reasonable time o allow employees to spend time with there families... and who exactly is going to go to a craft store at midnight.. I mean Black Friday should stay Black Friday and leave Thanksgiving be... anyway that's the end of my rant.

In other news I am getting a calendar with my photography professionally printed and if I'm not mistaken they will be available for purchase with all the proceeds coming to me... which is nice. Though I need to get more details on that let me know if any of you want the link. It should be available in a week or so.. I would appreciate the support.

Newspaper Video

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/energy-environment/obama-xi-reach-landmark-climate-pact/2014/11/12/c5e05faa-6a54-11e4-bafd-6598192a448d_video.html

The link above leads to the Washington Podt's posttv website which is found through their regular sites nav bar. I believe this is a good way for them to set this up. There are people who just want to read the news and not deal with videos and this allows them to do just that. But if you would like to catch the video real quick or don't have time to read the whole story you have that option too. Though not all stories come with a video.

Life at Pineberry

Pineberry Farm is a family run Christmas tree farm in the small town of Wheelock Vermont.

Owned and operated by the Potter Family for 25 years it has become well known in the community for their friendly attitudes and great customer service. Being the newest member of the Pineberry family I hardly know all the ins and outs of how the farm runs but I sat down with Nick Potter to find out just how you farm a Christmas tree.

Nick is the youngest grandson of Farm owner Bob Potter and hopes to take over the farm after graduating college next year.

When I asked Nick what the hardest part of tree farming was he gave this response “During trimming season it gets very hot and humid.”

I asked Nick to explain exactly what he meant by trimming season… After aren't Christmas Trees a winter thing?

 First he chuckled and then explained “The winter season is just the big push before we call it a year. Spring starts off our season with planting, we plant 3 to 6 thousand saplings a year. After that all 75 thousand trees need to be fertilized. Then comes shearing, this is how we get the trees to have that perfect cone shape that everyone loves. 3 months later we start cutting trees to send out to major retailers in the area.”

When asked, Nick told us that his favorite part of working on the farm was seeing the children’s faces after picking out their tree and bringing it back to the car to bring home. “It’s where I get the biggest sense of satisfaction.”

Pineberry farm also donates about 75 trees a year to local churches giving all the profits to the organizations. 

“For most farms it’s all about the money” Nick tells me, “for us it’s about helping people that may not be able to afford a tree have that small piece of Christmas that would otherwise be lost. We sell our trees for 25 dollars no matter the size or shape. A lot of other farms are getting 50 – 60 for their taller trees.”

His favorite part of running the farm? Driving his tractor.

“Being able to escape from everything even just for a few hours is great. I don’t have to worry about anything but not hitting trees while I’m in the field.”

If you would like to get in contact with Nick at Pineberry you can reach him at (802) 626- 8075. They would love to see you this year and everyone is welcome.

IReport

So after signing up and looking around IReport, I think this is a great new take on how to cover news from around the world. I mean, CNN can't be everywhere right?
Basically this program allows users to post their own news stories and then CNN can watch and read them and if they think they are good enough possibly use them on their TV news report.
They found a great way to get stories while only doing half the work while also giving upcoming reporters the opportunity to get their names out there.