Sunday Morning 1/27/08

Woke up this morning and i was glad it was snowing; we would have to walk to church.

Tricia said she did not want to break her hands walking to church in the snow.


I walked to church without her, this is the library right down the street from us.


This is Lamprey Falls right across from the library

This is the old Mill next to Lamprey Falls

This is a little further down towards church looking back at the falls and Mill

and here we are at St. Mary's.........

A new piece of furniture

A memorable 57th Birthday ; January 22, 2008

It was a full moon.......... that's our place with the lights on


We must pass this place almost every day and we thought hey let's go in there for a drink. It's called Three Chimney Inn.


It turned out to be a really old Inn and Tavern. The food and drinks were very good. We're definitely coming here again.

We finally got a real bed and it's great !!!

This is the 4th air mattress we've had since this "adventure" started they're all right but they don't last.


Anyways...... we were tired of literally waking up on the floor every morning that we went and got a new "regular" mattress
here they are delivering it.


Went down to Exeter; way cool old New England town.That's Lady Justice on top of the town hall.

............and here's the real lady at the top of the stairs of the town hall who dishes out the justice...if you know what i mean......


A lot of these NH old towns seem to have a river running through them and old industries associated with the river. We really like it. That yellow house in the back on the right, i had a great bowl of clam chowda and the other lady justice had her chocolate cake and ate it too.


Oh, i found the whole ALEXANDRIA QUARTET in hard covers with book covers in an old shop in town, $30 bucks I had to have it.

In and around where we live.

It seems whenever i'm 'in Town' (Portsmouth) i make a point of having 'my' grande`drip and i enjoy it.

This is Durham landing, just down the road a bit. i'm currently on this quest to find the grave of General John Sullivan and it's around here i'll post it when i find it.

It's snowing today just a reminder when you move to New Hampshire remember Rule #1. You need a garage!!!

just a nice shovel job i did this morning as i type this i need to do it again.

January 9th

Wednesday morning i got the 'KID' inspected and got the plates on.


we also got the washer dryer hooked up and running

Then we took a ride up the Maine coast to .....

January 8th

We voted in the Nations 1st primary.


Took a drive along the coast and had fish and chips and lobster stew.


We also got our plates and driver's license today. i still need to get the truck inspected; that's tomorrow.

New Year's Day 2008

It pretty much snowed all day. We emptied a couple of boxes. We found the flatware though we still can't find the knives. We put a couple of lamps together. We really need light.


I did shovel the front walk. Rule #1 if you move to New Hampshire.....make sure you have a garage!!!



We had our 1st sit down dinner at home... actually it was the 1st sit down dinner alone and not at deli or pizza joint.

Settling in......

First things first . We went to the town hall and registered to vote.

Friday Dec 28th

It snowed a little yesterday or last night.

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the Day after....

Christmas Eve, Tricia and i went over Monica and Danny's and it was a Beautiful evening with my cousins with a warm, family, and Italian feeling to it all. Monica is in red, that's Roxanne on the left and the back of Auntie J and Monica's friend Judy(?)


That's Cousin Joe on the left and right below him was a killer!!! lobster pie he made.Danny is sittin at the table with Colette in the pink.

Justine and Adrienne, and Roxanne's little Evan.


Christmas day we spent with Mom opening presents and had smoked turkey and ham for Christmas dinner.This was the moon coming up as we drove home from Mom's on Winthrop beach it was spectacular Christmas evening.


The Day after Christmas the movers came and added to our never ending Christmas. We are truly blessed.

Here's our living room this morning

Tricia's in the basement checkin her list .............


and this guy is still too much for me i thought he was gone and now he's back.......

Thursday December 20th

This is out the back window very early this morning. Tricia loves 'her' Christmas tree.


It's been snowing since last night. Decided to take luke for a walk along the river.


Thought i'de take a short cut back but there was a fork in the river and i didn't know to take this one


or this one


we decided to follow our tracks back the way we came

Our new home

We're in our new home, in New England in New Hampshire in Newmarket.
3B Bass Street Newmarket NH 03857

Thursday evening Dec 13th

The North Church of Portsmouth

We had a couple of errands to do "downtown". i was was struck by the old architecture all around us.