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Ok, I haven’t been posting for a while (as some of you might have noticed), maybe you haven’t, because I had a slight mishap over the weekend and I just HAD to find out who the next FoodNetwork star was going to be!!

For those of you who know me I am always involved in something dangerous: my three favorite sports are rock climbing, skydiving and butting heads with the Cheshire Police Department.

I have been doing all three of them for nearly 25 years. Well, this past Saturday, I went skydiving in Vermont. Actually, it was base jumping, where one jumps from a tall object like a bridge or a high cliff or building (if you can get away with it). “BASE” is an acronym that stands for Bridge, Antenna, Span and Earth.

This was a high cliff, and I guess when I went to deploy my chute, manu.ally, I must have waited too long, because I came down hard and hurt my left leg and right arm. But it is soooo much fun I will never give it up–ever!!!

I am OK thanks to Tylenol and Advil!!!

Also, my son and I are in the process of re-doing the website again. So hopefully within a few days, I will unveil the new site and hopefully you will all like it.

Now I just received my alumni newsletter from the University of New Haven. And yes, they too are re-doing their athletics, including their football team. I go from time to time to the UNH football games, they are really fun and the UNH team is pretty good.

But now, they will be even better. Why? They are getting artificial turf!! Actually, they are installing what is called “sprinturf” The UNH team is called the Chargers, and the UNH colors are blue and gold. So, guess what? The turf will be Blue and Gold. Pretty cool huh?

In fact, the colored turf will be just one of two of these type of surfaces in college football. I plan on going to UNH within the next few weeks to see how the installation is going and why the school decided on the colored turf instead of the natural green look. The field will be ready for play in the fall just in time for the first UNH home football game. It might behoove some of you to travel to University of New Haven, which is located at 300 Orange Avenue, to see for yourselves and ask questions.

I don’t know the final cost of this project, but I am sure it was not cheap. It doesn’t really matter though, because the ENTIRE cost was paid for by a UNH alumni!!!

Here is a link to Sprinturf–pronounced “Sprint Turf.”

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Now I found out about this “travel tour” the Town Council will be doing this coming Thursday, Oh, damn, I forgot to go to Home Depot and get that big box of nails to throw on the road. Oh well, I will have to wait until next year.

Again we have this pool issue. Another $192,000 to repair some of the pool, including the locker rooms, and the bottom of the pool. Do you mean to tell me we could not get volunteers to help paint the bottom of that pool? Come on. It seems people in this community are ready to volunteer for SOME things, that are high profile and high drama. But when it comes to volunteering for something that is low key or a maybe a little unpopular, FORGET IT!! I am telling you–the motto of Cheshire should be “Wham Bam Thank You M’am!!

And I also noticed this extension of the linear trail off of Jarvis Street to West Main street is in the news again. Well I hope the DEMOCRATS, who ditched it a few years ago as being “too costly” will get on the stick and tie this into the revamping of West Main Street.

This is some peoples attitude about Cheshire:
Yep, we got what we wanted, used the town’s resources, left it in a hole, and when our kids graduated, we left town. REAL GOOD. The people on the Town Council better start listening to the “same old people” that seem to show up at the Town Council meetings. I mean the people who have lived here most of their lives, and moved here, as my husband and I did, before kids and marriage. Actually, my husband has lived in this town ALL HIS LIFE–55 years!! These are the people who are going to be left holding the proverbial “tax bag” when the “I wants” get through raking the town over the coals and leave.

In other news: I am posting a link to the Cheshire woman who is searching for a kidney donor. This story is running all over the United States.

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HERE IS THE NEXT FOOD NETWORK STAR!!

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See Ya!!