Don’t skip the recipes at the end – cheese and bacon are the star ingredients – or Stimson’s genuinely moving tributes to the family’s beloved pets. Stimson tells her tales with clear-eyed, self-deprecating humor, which makes Mud Season a breeze to read in a single sitting.Washington Post About the Author Ellen Stimson is blessed with a wild pack of children not-so-wild but completely adorable husband and a very civilized group of chickens, dogs, and cats. : Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another (9781581572612) by Stimson, Ellen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Louis area.1 The stories that appear in her books are largely based around their holiday traditions and life running a small country store in Dorset, Vermont. Mud Season, which Stimson assures the reader is at least 78% true, humorously chronicles Stimson’s various mishaps and misfortunes as she and her family create a new life in Vermont. In 2013 she wrote the work Mud Season, detailing her familys life in small town Vermont, after moving from the St. Happily for the reader, however, a dream upended makes for hilarious reading. In self-deprecating and hilarious fashion, Mud Season chronicles Stimsons transition from city life to small Vermont farmhouse. Louis so why not sink a breathtaking amount of money renovating an old farmhouse? Why not buy a “lovely quaint country store”, make poor business decisions, flirt with bankruptcy and alienate the locals? Now throw in some ill-advised calls to 911 and a few environmental mishaps and clearly Ellen’s lilac-scented, starry night dream of Vermont was more a nightmare of unhappy villagers and threatening letters from creditors. Louis to start a new long-dreamed-for life in the rural splendor of Vermont. Glorious fall foliage, cozy Heidi-esque mountains, delightful country stores, and cheese, lots and lots of cheese, – who wouldn’t fall in love with Vermont? Besotted with Vermont’s natural beauty (and all that cheese!) Ellen Stimson and her family packed up and left St.

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