End of Visit

 

Rachel and David came back from Andrew's wedding in Brooklyn on Monday and early Tuesday morning I left this sweet family--

  

Simon with his most favorite snack--bread and butter (but mostly butter),

 

 Gwen, pictured here with her good friend Isa, Graciela's granddaughter,

and Rachel and David, here discussing plans for their new house.

I loved being with them all!

I came back to a cozy, warm Chocorua home where Toby had done lots of work on the garden behind the kitchen.  It may not look impressive here, but wait until next summer.  The stone walls are rebuilt and added onto, the surrounding slope reconfigured, good soil put down, and lots of other things.  Ned did the walls, Tom helped enormously with digging out grass and oregano, and Christina, aside from creating delicious soups, moved a lot of stones!  Tulip lay on the grass and supervised.

Then the marvelous surprise of this:

OBAMA WINNING!!!!!