friday the 13th

I am gearing up for a busy busy weekend. Tomorrow I pick up my brother from the airport in Manchester for a whirlwind visit… Father’s Day in Granby, VT, my Gram’s funeral on Monday, then back to the airport on Tuesday. But am I going straight home to vacuum my heart out? NO! [...]

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Hiking the AT

We spent this weekend with our friend from Chicago — the intrepid AT thru-hiker, Mystery Chicken (aka Rick Franklin). We picked him up off the Appalachian Trail on Friday and proceeded to have the best weekend of the summer to date. Rick and I went to listen to some bluegrass (and Rick did some banjo [...]

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Quechee Balloon Festival

Mom was visiting this weekend while Bryan was visiting Chicago friend and competitive eater, Tim Brown in Maine (strange, there are no pictures from that!). Mom and I went for a hike on Gile Mountain in the morning and then went to the Balloon Festival in Quechee, VT. There was lots of local color [...]

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Visitors from Sunny CA

Last week we had visitors from Sunny CA — Bryan’s best friend from way back, Adam, and his wife Leslie. We had an action packed week. We went to the Bluegrass Shed and heard some tunes, went ice fishing on Willoughby Lake, went sledding and drove to Portsmouth in a snowstorm just to see the [...]

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