A brief visit to the Bergh's

Today we've been taking it easy and doing little chores around the house. Also the Spelling Bee - Ellen and I just came within one word of being jointly a Queen Bee - finding all the words. The one we missed? FELID. It means "cat." We don't feel too bad about missing that word, but why do they accept FELID and reject TARN (pond)? In this puzzle they also rejected FILO (an alternate spelling of PHYLLO - the thin dough used in making Greek baked delicacies like "baklava."). Oh well! This afternoon we had bills and cards to mail, and only the Brattleboro Post Office has a late Sat. afternoon pick-up, so we went there. Then after that we made a quick visit to see Cliff and ELiza Bergh. ELiza has a beautiful spring garden and they are also starting a building project - an addition to their house which will become an apartment for the two of them while Sarah and the girls, Phoebe and Maggie, take over the house. I had not seen either the garden or the excavation for the addition - so here they are:

The excavation, awaiting the forms that cement will be poured into for the foundation.

Eliza's beautiful spring garden - it is actually more extensive than this photo shows.

Cliff Bergh - a picture taken from a TV program featuring Cliff and three other "wood angels" in Dummerston; i.e., a group of senior men who maintain a "wood pantry" for people in need of wood - a project of the Dummerston Church.

I don't have a close-up photo of Eliza handy, but here is a cool substitute - a quilt she made that won the top prize - best quilt in Vermont - in 1992. Isn't it beautiful?

OK, I do have one of Eliza, taken with the girls at Eliza's birthday party last March. I think maybe I posted this picture back then too. That's ok.