5/22/2009 White River Junction VT Cool, warm, cool.
Up, breakfast, into Chateaugay NY to the town clerk's office. I chatted there with the clerk and a friend about whether or how to find my ancestor's grave. They didn't have much to offer beyond what I found yesterday. Town records only go back to 1847.
So we went on to the above location (WRJ hereafter). We set up (with some difficulty due to trees and rocks) and called D's sister. We agreed to meet in the late afternoon. We relaxed until then.
We went to their place on the NH side of the Connecticut River and chatted for a while before going out to dinner at a nice little family style place. We sat and talked for a long while, then returned to their place. But we cut out for the trailer before we got into a longer discussion. We'll meet tomorrow early afternoon to go together to visit D's niece (Mary's daughter) some 35 miles north of here.
Someplace I lost my set of trailer keys. We'll find a hardware store tomorrow and make duplicates from D's set.
Lots of people piled into this campground today for the weekend. Quiet tonight, but I wonder about tomorrow.
We'll see.....
5/23/2009 White River Junction VT Cool, cloudy.
We had a fun day today. D stayed in the trailer while I went running around trying to replace keys. I got the common keys done at Home Depot, but the more complex ones (trailer key and pin-lock key) couldn't be done by them. I looked at the recommended locksmith shop, but he was closed for the weekend as I suspected.
So I came back to the trailer, picked up D and we went to her sister Mary's house. From there the four of us went to Mary's daughter Marybeth's place to see her, her husband Bill, daughter Julieann and son Tim. We congratulated Tim on his winning the championship in Vermont for the National Spelling Bee; he'll be off to Washington DC (with the whole family) to compete in the Nation contest tomorrow. Tim's doing well on all his activities.
Julieann is doing well at Manhattan College, entering her junior year this fall. Bill's doing ok, but his company is temporarily working three days a week while waiting for business to recover. Marybeth looks fine and happy as usual; there's plenty to keep her busy, especially since she home-schools Tim.
Their son David is in the Army at Fort Bragg, NC. His fiancee, Rachel, came in to say hi, so we met her. She's a cute little gal who has finished three years of college; she'll be moving to NC to join David and finish college there. David may be assigned to Afghanistan next, so all that's a little up in the air. We hope for the best for them.
Rachel left and we left shortly afterward so they could continue packing and getting ready for their trip. We returned to Mary & Walter's house and talked while Mary cooked. Then we ate dinner there and talked some more until we finally left around 10:30.
Mary dragged out some old catholic school stuff so she and D talked about that and related family memories for a long time. Lots of fun.
Then back and to bed.
5/24/2009 White River Junction VT Wet but cleared and became sunny and almost warm.
We hopped up, ate, and scurried to Mary's house to follow them to church in Lebanon NH. Afterward, we came back to the trailer to pick up our forgotten cell phone & back to Mary's again.
Then the four of us had a breakfast sandwich and coffee at Jake's Deli and Car Wash (quite good), and toured to Lake Sunapee NH to people-watch. Lots of folks were putting boats into the water or taking them out, so that activity absorbed us for a while. Lots of people and dogs, including a huge St Bernard.
A float-plane taxied into the beach and tied up while the pilot and his son went for something to eat. Later, they taxied out and took off. The dinner cruise ship was about to depart when we departed to eat a light dinner at Peter Christain's in New London, NH. We chatted all the while.
On the way back we stopped at a grocery and happened to see a hot-air balloon with several passengers going past, quite low. The airport is just down the road, so they may have just taken off.
On to their house, where we begged off on an invitation to come up for coffee, said our thanks and goodbyes and left them. We returned to the trailer to relax and prep for moving tomorrow.
We spoke with Susan and Bill today, both sound well.
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