We took a drive up north to the Conway area today
What a beautiful day!
Bretton Woods ski resort was making snow so we stopped and I snapped a few pictures.
Then, coming home, the sun was shining brightly and it was snowing at the same time. It felt as though we were driving in a snow globe.
04 December...
We took a trip to Boston. It was my first visit ever and I enjoyed it immenseley. We took a trolley tour just to see the basics. There was a stop near the Old North Church (of Paul Revere fame) which is now in the "Little Italy" section. We made certain we visited the USS Constitution (Go Navy!) and then on to Faneuil Hall Marketplace http://www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com/ . Very nice! We didn't even see half of it, so we will be going back in the spring.
10 Dec...
The saga of the Covered Bridge mugs -- The Church sold out of all the Covered Bridge mugs, so I placed a reorder for 100 more. The mugs were supposed to arrive here by Dec.15. When they hadn't arrived by Dec 17, I called the company. After some checking they said we would have them by Dec 22. I expressed a bit of dismay as we had buyers waiting for them.
I checked online somewhere around the 20th of Dec and saw they had shipped but there wasn't any tracking information. Sooooooo, I called them again to find out how they were going to be delivered.
After a bit more checking (and waiting on hold) a supervisor came on the line (never a good sign). It seems as though, she said, that the mugs were on their way to England!!
Now, I was REALLY dismayed. The supervisor told me they would redo the order and I would have them by Dec. 24th.
I did. The customers were happy.
Sometime after the new year I received a box at the Post Office. It was one of the lost boxes of mugs...by way of Germany! I called the company and asked whether they wanted me to ship them back, or...? The company said to keep them.
Over the next week and a half the mugs arrived, sometimes in a woven plastic bag, others in just the box they were shipped in. They had all gone to Germany.
BTW, the error was the company's...not the USPS.
The upshot is that now we have a LOT of mugs to sell this fall. Yippee!
10 Jan...
The Grange that we belong to participates in "The Dictionary Project" ( http://www.dictionaryproject.org/ ) The whole idea is to try and give every third grade student in the country a student dictionary.
We visit three different schools in our area to pass them out.
18 Jan, 2011...
Wow, has time flown!!
We had a wonderful white Christmas and it wasn't too cold.
This winter, so far, has been much better than last year (more snow, more cold).
We actually been able to do some snowshoeing as opposed to last year. The temps have been colder than last year as well (yea!!).
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and now the pictures...
Making snow at Bretton Woods...
Just a pretty shot from the Kancamagus highway
Snowman built by unknown sculpter along the Kanc.
A few pictures from Boston...
Inside the Old North Church
A most unusual windchime/memorial made from dogtags
Old Ironsides...and Linda
Christmas
Our tree...
(can you see what looks to be little orange balls? They are thinly sliced and dehydrated oranges)
Some favorite ornaments...
Paths...
One of our dogs, Tyler, (a German Pinscher) is blind. To help him navigate the snow we shovel paths through the backyard.
Two of the three deer feeders and the hill the deer come down every day to feed
(taken from an upstairs window)
Grange members (L to R --Bill Scott, Linda, teacher Erica Tardiff and Raymond Burton present dictionaries to the third grade class of Bath Village School. Yes, this is the entire class...
Our neighbor, Steve Hall, took these pictures of a mom Bobcat and her kittens in his backyard...
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