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| Looking down from our front deck - summer is in full bloom! |
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| Our first night's dinner of the week: Zoe, Sean, Rowan, Heather, Will, James, Kolya and Morgen |
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| A few I managed to get together for a photo (not easy). Jenny, Sean, Will, James, Rowan, Morgen and Scott. |
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Larry and Scott. This was actually
taken during a visit to Essex, NY to
visit Larry earlier in June |
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We went up to Spring Lake every day and sometimes twice in
one day. The weather was hot most of the week and sunny!
The lake is just up our road one mile!
Here is Morgen, Zoe, Rowan, Sean and Will. |
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| Kolya saying good-bye at the end of the week. |
Here's a montage of photos from our summer so far. Since our visit from our oldest son's daughter Shira, three of our other children came for a week around the Fourth of July - along with some other friends. James, Morgen and Kolya drove up from Washington DC. Sean, Will and Rowan came from Boston. Zoe flew to Boston from Palo Alto for a few days with them and then came up for the week here. Larry and Zuzia from Essex, NY and Jenny & Marty Wolf came for the weekend. And last Scott Silverstein joined us for a day.
And we're attending lots of concerts of every kind. There are so many choices around the area. Pierce's Store continues to be busy with Heather putting in 8 hours (2 - 4 hour shifts) running the store as a volunteer and lots of other events such as a wine tasting, and a film documenting Marjorie Pierce's life, both with lots of music. Shrewsbury hosts a 6 concert series at our Meeting House and there are similar concerts at almost every town around us all summer We drove over to Saratoga for two days and saw BalletX perform the Four Seasons Reimagined. And then trips to Cornish, NH for two of our 3 performance series at Opera North - Rossini's Cenerentola. and Douglas Moore and John Latouche's Ballad of Baby Doe. We obviously love opera - we saw a second version of La Traviata at Middlebury Opera in June (the fist was January at Pensacola).
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Heather makes the appetizers for the
wine tastings. We sell them and wine &
beer in the garage to benefit Pierce's. |
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The view from our seating at the Saratoga Performing Arts
Center for BalletX |
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The flowers and butterflies are amazing
this year in our garden. |
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We always have a picnic supper before our Opera North
performances. Our friend Sally joins us. The view over to the
Connecticut River and Mt. Ascutney is beautiful and we've
lucked out twice now with the weather. |
Scott is on 5 boards and Treasurer not only for all of them, but also for for our candidate for State Representative, Phoebe Tucker. He is a faithful attendee at Quaker meeting here in Shrewsbury on Sundays too. Heather is an active member of the Rutland Garden Club and leads the team that maintains the gardens at our Senior Center (as well as our own huge garden, where she does have help). Scott is doing a lot of maintenance work around the house, for example painting the decks. So we keep really busy.
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| Handy Man Scott replacing the sink faucet |
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| Tony's Polka Band (www.tonyspolkaband.com) |
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| Looking at the audience behind me |
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| And over to the left behind me with our Meeting House in the rear. Spring Lake Ranch provided the dinner and there were 502 ice cream bars for dessert. |
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| This view from the front deck includes Baby. |
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| Our side deck has two tables for six and lots of extra chairs. Awnings can cover the whole deck when it's hot - not that often! |
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| Looking down the walkway to the garage with a few of my many herbs visible. |
