Reprieve

 

Henri is not going to make it to New Hampshire.  The heavy rains we expected are not happening.

As I write this at  7:30 am the skies are gray and there's no rain at all.

Henri

 The path of Tropical Storm Henri.

See the pinpoint at Mon. 2 pm?

That's about where we live.

Don't know what to expect: rain, wind, flooding, power outage?

Hoping that it will be downgraded considerably by then.

Off to the Fair this morning before the rains start.

[map from NY Times]

Fellow Blogger for Lunch

 Friday the 20th, Dan and I welcomed Dorothy and Pat for lunch.  They may be known to you as Beatrice and Grenvillef The Frog and the PenguiNN.  Today, Saturday, is their anniversary.  

Though they live in Nashua which is several hours south of here they came up to the Upper Valley of NH/VT to do some exploring and to meet us for the first time.  

We had corresponded first through our blogs - don't know who discovered whom first - then by emails and phone conversations.

I made cheese pie, tossed salad, and blueberry pie.

We spent almost three hours getting better acquainted & hearing each other's life stories.  Of course we gave them a tour of our 1839 house and barn - a work in progress.

It's been a very long time since we met up with a fellow blogger.  The last was likely in 2014 when we were in the UK and met up with Marie of After 60 and the Next 10.

If any of you reading this are in NH area look me up.  Maybe we can get together, too.

Concrete

 The concrete slab is being poured as I write.  They were to come tomorrow but with topical depression Fred giving us rain they opted to do our inside job today.

This won't take long at all.

Another contractor to check off "done"!