How I'm spending my summer vacation.

Before

After 

When you start with this...

How can you go wrong?

or with more light

Phil even pitched in!

Then we changed this...
into this...  Pardon the blur

Now it looks like 

None of this work would be possible without...

several months later we attacked
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by swapping sinks 

and rebuilding the platform 

next we'll take on 

Now it looks like +

Then we tackled the driveway
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I decided to go to the White Mountains on Thursday September 13.  Since I had room for a guest, Gregory came along.
First we stopped for a photo op: 
Then we rode the Cannon Mountain Ariel Tramway: +
Then we visited the Flume: +++

I decided to go to the White Mountains on Wednesday September 19.  Since I had room for a guest, Brian came along.
First we stopped for a photo op: +
Then we parked here: 
Then we rode the Cannon Mountain Ariel Tramway: +++
Then we found Lost River++++

I decided to go to the White Mountains on Monday September 24.  Since I had room for a guest, Dad came along.
We rode the gondola on Mount Wildcat.
Then we drove up Mount Washington. From there we could see Mount Adams.



I was driving to Weare, NH and passed a cemetary on the Goffstown-Weare line.
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then I visited the Everett Flood Control Dam 


I went to Martha's Vineyard for Columbus Day weekend.
Mytoi: ++ Franklinia: +

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The Valley of the Shadows of the SUVs.



I decided to go to the White Mountains on Friday October 12.  Since I had room for a guest, Dad came along.
We stopped at Chocorua Lake
Then we drove through Bear Notch
We drove by Mount Washington:
It was so beautiful that we HAD to drive up it again.
Dad in the snow
The car park
Mount Wildcat
The Summit.  52º (the October record is 59º, Tuesday's high was 18º) and virtually no wind.  40 mile visibility.  17.2" of snow so far.
Looking south
The Auto Road and Cog Railway
Mount Jefferson
The Agiochochook
+ Chocorua Lake looked great on the way home too.


I decided to go to Vermont on Thursday October 18.  Since I had room for a guest, Linda came along.

We drove up Equinox Mountain.
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31º on the summit.

Then we drove to Pack Monadnock Mountain.
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On Friday October 19th, Linda, Ruane and I took Dad to the white mountains for his birthday.
It was 37º on the summit with 47 mph winds.
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Then we went to Glen Ellis falls.
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On Friday, November 2, Dad and I went to Martha's Vineyard
Dad at Aquinnah (Gay Head)


On Thursday, November 8, Dad and I went to the White Mountains.
Mount Chocorua: 
Intervale: 
Mount Washington: