More Dogs on Main: The pollen season is on

I spent some time this week mucking off my desk. There were piles of mail to get through with bills to pay and accounts to reconcile.

I don’t like bookkeeping, and like it even less when, for “convenience and efficiency” it now takes me about 15 minutes to write a check with the assistance of QuickBooks. I used to stick a three-part check, with carbon paper, in the typewriter and pay a month’s worth of business bills in a couple of minutes.

Our accountant now insists that we do it on QuickBooks, which would be fine except they have made it difficult, especially if writing a check for a one-time purchase from somebody I’ll likely never see again.

I bought a snow plow attachment for the tractor last fall from a neighbor’s brother-in-law’s cousin in Montpelier. It was never clear to me whe