A Whirlwind Week!

It's so great to have company!  Friends we met and spend the winter with in Florida made their first trip to New England in their motorhome with car in tow last week.  Jim and Gail are full time nomads, on the road in their lovely 'home on wheels'.  They parked in our special place for friends in RV's who wish to visit us.  What a good few days we had showing them around and doing some things new to them.

One day we went on a mystery ride, enjoying finding some of our covered bridges, stopping to look at the Queeche Gorge and watch the amazing glass blowers at the Simon Pierce store there in Queeche..  Lunch was fun at a quaint little diner and then some shopping at Gillingham's, an old fashioned country store in Woodstock that offers all the hard to find things of yesteryear.  Then on home for a quiet dinner at home and a nice little bonfire on the back patio listening to the crickets and other night noises along with the crackle of the fire and its welcome warmth on a beautiful cool night.

The Windsor/Cornish Bridge

This is the longest wooden bridge in the US and the longest 2 span covered bridge in the world.

One morning we took them kayaking, another first for them, at a very peaceful, remote pond and had a picnic on the small island there watching the geese and scaring up a few ducks as we left.  Back home again and after a bit of a rest, we took a walk in the woods along the river to the falls about a mile from our house.  Here we were met by our son in-law Paul who drove us on to check out the bald eagle's nest. No eagle siting today... he often soars high above the meadow across from our house hunting for small prey that might be scurrying through the grass there.  We have never seen him swoop down to catch anything but sure is nice to see him ride the wind currents.  He is a lot quieter than the airplanes that pull the gliders up and let them go to soar like the eagle!  All this exercise makes us really hungry so we go to the Black Rock Restaurant to savor great steaks served on a VERY hot rock ... 700 degrees hot they say, upon which we each can cook our meat to our favorite doneness.  Sooo yummy! This too was something not experienced before by our guests.

Looking for the eagles

Another day was spent just relaxing and enjoying this near perfect weather we have been so blessed with.  In the evening, the guys went off to an antique show in NH and we girls had a little night out going to the little Scottish Pub nearby for a unique supper of Cock a Leeky Pie and a fabulous dessert resembling peanut butter pie with whipped cream topping.

It was a wonderful time we shared and we are so glad they decided to check out our part of Vt.  It was a real bonus to have such warm, sunny,
 blue-sky days and such cool nights so good for sound sleeping.
We hope they find many more fun things to do as they travel through parts of NH and Maine and that they stop back by around Labor Day as they wend their way back to Indiana and Kentucky to visit with relatives before heading to Florida for the winter months.

Now it is all quiet around here and time to pick the garden and make some jam and get back to finishing up some of my UFO's  (un-finished- projects) .

Hope you all enjoy these wonderful end of summer days.  Remember that " Today is a gift, that is why it is called 'The Present' "