Another week has passed!

Time flies when you are having fun! Here it is a week after my last post! An intense week it was! Ellen picked me up at Princeton Theological Seminary on Friday morning and we made it back to Brattleboro with just a few minutes to spare before we picked up Katie at the Amtrak station. We had a great visit with Katie which included a trip on Sunday to Sunnapee NH to a lunch that included Maggie, Jerry, Daniel and Suzie who had driven out from Bartlett/Elgin, IL to attend a funeral of Maggie's cousin, Bob Nilsson. John went with us, so it was a rare gathering of cousins, which Katie loved. The amazing Aunt Hazel was there too - Bob was her son. Aunt Hazel is 110 years old!

The rest of the weekend, which went through Monday, we talked a lot and Katie worked on a jigsaw puzzle - a 1000-piece puzzle of a complex Frank Lloyd Wright rug from the Empire Hotel in Tokyo. She is a good puzzle person! She actually got it done.

Saturday afternoon, Katie went to John and Cynthia's while Ellen and I had rehearsals. Monday morning, E&I went to an Osher lecture on "The Arctic" while Katie used the internet at the Brattleboro Coop.

Tuesday, Ellen and I had a Hallowell sing at the Rockingham Meeting House at 1:00 so we dropped Katie off at John's so he could take her to the train to go back to NYC. Despite all these trips and activities, we had a lot of time to talk and it was a full and good visit.

Rockingham Meeting House

The Pulpit at the Meeting House - the sermon is central to theology of this architecture!

Tuesday eve, we had River Singers rehearsal, and last night we had a Concert Choir rehearsal. We rehearsed at Center Church and sang the Allegri Miserere spread out around the balcony, which was really fun.

Today, Ellen is making pie crusts for the Guilford Pie Sale. Never a dull moment!

And a piece of great news: Savanna got permission to walk on her injured ankle. She has a much smaller foot brace now and can use the walker without hopping. It makes getting around, and in and out of the house, so much easier! Yay, Savanna!

Suzie talking with Aunt Hazel at lunch

Katie and Ellen working on the puzzle

The completed puzzle!

A map of the arctic from our Osher lecture series showing the biomoes (e.g., Artic Tundra, Boreal Forest, etc.). Canada is on the left, Russia on the right. Alaska is upper left of center. Scandanavia is bottom center. Not a perspective we are used to seeing!

A reindeer herder in the Arctic. Astounding fact - 4 MILLION (!) people live inside the Arctic Circle!