Patrick M. Slattery

Pictures of some flowers I've grown in the garden and my office and some local wildlife.

Vermont 251 Club - Master List of Towns Visited​

This page has a linked list of towns we have visited in Vermont

A visit to the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center in April 2019​

One of my previous interns works at MIT at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center on Albany Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He invited me to see their tokamak during a visit to Boston. It was powered down for decommissioning at the time as they were preparing to build a new super powerful Tokamak (SPARC) with their research partner Commonwealth Fusion Systems at a new site in Devens, Massachusetts.

So Carolyn has always wanted a horse and finally got one:

Although I spent 11 years working in the grocery software space I had never been to a Wegmans store. They were never one of our clients at MyWebGrocer and they don't have any stores close to Vermont, so when I spotted a Wegmans store across the street from where we had gone to eat for Thanksgiving on a trip to Pennsylvania, I told Carolyn that we had to stop there and check it out before they closed for the holiday.

Vermont 251 Club - Towns visited in August 2025 See the master list of town we have visited at: https://futureops.info/blog/vermont-251-town-list

Picking grapes at Lincoln Peak Vineyard​

Lincoln Peak Vineyard is a vineyard of about 10 acres of vines in New Haven Vermont just north of Middlebury on Route 7.

Here are some photos from a visit to the American Precision Museum in Windsor VT on June 1st 2025.

A visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in NYC​

While I did visit many other parts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on this day in May 2025 I pretty much only took pictures of items in the Arms and Armor section.
Adam Savage (Of MythBusters fame) has a fantastic series of behind the scenes videos of various items in this section, see: Adam Savage’s Tested

Items shown below are ordered roughly in historical age.

Lobster rolls​

My older son loves lobster as do I and we will often buy it in the summer when it goes on sale and make lobster rolls.
We also like to stop for lunch at Yankee Lobster whenever we are in Boston.