Thanksgiving Week,

Tricia at Starbucks at the OLD North church in Portsmouth.


My Mom came up for a few days for Thanksgiving ; we're here at the Ffrost-Sawyer Tavern.


Sam getting the turkey ready.......

Turkey's done.......



After we all cleaned up.


The magic Christmas tree from across the river; we saw this for the 1st time this year at the end of the night and after a very Thankful Thanksgiving day.


Great old book store up in Henniker NH.



i'm currently ready about George Washington. These 4 volumes are the 1804 edition by John Marshall .......very cool!!!

The Seacoast, History, mid-Fall, and remembering the Good Old Days.....

We've (Tricia) has been very busy with contractors, bathroom supply houses etc. figuring out what we're going to do in the new place before we move in.
i on the other hand because of my "bon vivant" streak went looking for a winter wet suit at the local surf shops. Tricia is very against this new "interest".
This is North Hampton beach.


This is at Ogunquit Maine.

This is looking towards Ogunquit beach.

This is looking towards York and Cape Neddick.


We couldn't see it because of the fog but we did hear it; the Whaleback Light lighthouse is right behind us

This is Wadleigh Falls this is upstream from where we live.



i'm currently reading about George Washington and i tracked down a 1805 copy of the "Life of George Washington" by John Marshall at The Douglas and Helena Milne Special Collections & Archives Department at UNH.


............Tricia remembering the Good Old Days

The last couple of days (1st week of Nov. 2008)

Little wet today and we should be closing on this condo the 1st of Dec.


This is on the porch of the Wentworth looking out.

This little water craft Truth shuttled the Russian and Japanese delegates who stayed at the Wentworth and devised the Treaty of Portsmouth that ultimately ended the Russo-Japanese War. This was around 1905. President Theodore Roosevelt brought about these peace talks between Russia and Japan, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions.

This is the Roosevelt Lounge at the Wentworth. Stopped by for a little lunch; the best Clam chowder around.

This was last Tuesday..........in Stratham New Hampshire.


Last Sunday after the phone bank.

One of luke's many girl-friends.

Wiswall Falls

This is Wiswall Falls, just down the road from us it's Durham NH. we saw a couple of fisherman who told us that they caught a couple of trout.

Didn't know this but thanks to a neighbor who enlighted me to check for ticks because of the reputation of ticks at Wiswall falls. i did find about 5 ticks on luke and myself.



Back home, later in the afternoon......

The Stewart Sisters and Mother in law

Tricia's sister and Mom were in town for a week.
This is in downtown Portsmouth.


This had to be Thursday we took a drive up to the "Bush's" in Kennebunkport.
The following was a mural i wanted a picture of it's at this little Post office in Kennebunkport and it's of the seaport and by Gordon Grant and you can just make out the date of 1944.



Gloria, this one is for you; you wanted a picture of the red berries against the blue sky.

forgot which day this is but we went up to the Lakes region.






Sunday afternoon we stopped off at the Wentworth and had lunch before we dropped Gloria and Edith off at the airport in Boston.
......and those 3 pumpkins aren't fake.

Oct. 19, 2008

In the mornings because of the cold there's this very eerie mist that comes off the river . It's really cool looking and very dynamic and fleeting. Can't quite catch it in the pictures.



Picked up Tricia's Mom and sister Gloria in Boston yesterday. They're here visiting for a week.