6o years of Williams Hardware in beautiful Poultney, Vermont.

What a celebration! Everyone who was there was there!!

Many thanks to Christine for her wonderul violin accompaniments!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eagles at Sugarbush celebrated its 25th anniversary. This wonderful resort is four star **** rated. We've been coming here for almost 23+ years! It's convenient to all the skiing, Warren, Ben & Jerry's, Stowe, Cabot Cheese on Rt. 100, Burlington, Montpelier, etc, etc. A great four season place to be!

Here we are with Dee Dee, one of the resort managers, and Michelle, who also works at Eagles. Michelle is an elementary school art teacher. Bless her.

Eagles is a great place to be, ANYTIME.

Stopped by to picnic at the North Poultney Cemetery on Route 30. On a hill overlooking some nice farmland, just by the Delaware and Hudson Rail Trail. This is a very nice trail for walking, biking and snowmobiling or whatever you would like to do any season.

Sake Tasting, Pictures II.

Dee-lish shush foods courtesty of Heather's Japanese Catering Company!

Many thanks.

We raced through the back yard to Steve and Heather's home for our First Annual Sake Tasting, complete with some tradional foods.

With a detailed presentation from Steve, we had a chance to taste eight sakes. All served cold, except for one. The creamy, unfiltered, white sake was very iteresting and would be a good choice with the appropriate foods. We "donated" a sake that our friend Masami brought to us on his last visit to as the USA and Connecticut.

I'm working on the the tasters' ratings and will give you a final report on the "favorite" sake in a few days. Gotta do the math, you know!

Great hosts, Steve and Heather!

Our seaweed-warm wakame- salad was well- received and the "hit of the evening" was Masumi's green tea ice cream. Wonderful!! Great for a first time creation, eh?

Can you find and name all the sake tasters here?

The Rutland K of C Hall was where we were for the Happy Birthday Party for our gal, Val.

How old are you now, Val?

Who are the singers?

The Chicks are a month old now and getting ready to leave the nest!


Isn't this Buff Orpinton cute?

Guess who we got to meet at the Rutland area PEGTV annual meeting?

Any takers?

Answer and win a prize. Be sure to send your mailing address.

What happened to this year's Poultney Garden Club sale?



It moved!

Faces in the crowd with lots of goodies for all!

Settling into their new quarters.

"Cheep, cheep...cluck, cluck....."

New Home for the Chicks...

Uncle Jeff says hello to everyone!

After seeing mom and Jeff we stopped by one the Food Network's Fabulous Finds, Foxon Park Soda where we've been going for years. We love the Gassosa and Birch Beer sodas; Iron Brew has that great taste that can't be beat. Picking up a case to bring back to the Birdhouse Inn so that Poulneyites can have that special feeling, too! Only one problem: where is the pizza?

"Where are we going?"

Four of the sisters and brothers are headed north to the Pine Tree State as a graduation "present", thanks to the Professors of Philosophy. Checking out the flock...

Did you notice the new hanging feeder?

One last look at the Messy Two Dozen, now reduced to One Score.

Cogito ergo sum, et tu?

Happy Mothers Day from Middletown, Connecticut.

Honoring the Mother B with all the rest of the many Bees!

Happy Mothers Day in Middletown with all the Bees, especially the Mother B!

Thanks to Linda and Pete for hosting such a fun party in honor of Mother B and all mothers!

A tribute to Betty Staudt from her committee members.

Betty was the Chairperson of the Mission Committee of the Fair Haven Congregational Church for many years. She was responsible for the Easter Cross and the many successful outreach missions of FHCC. Betty will be moving across the state, near White River Junction, to be closer to her children.

We'll miss you, Betty.

Best wishes!

The chicks are getting a "whole language" lesson from this teacher.

Can you identify him and where he lives?

And the winner is...
...or should I say the winners are...

1. Maggie,
2. Kathy, and
3. Carl

Congratulations for particpating in the Fair Haven CC Ministry Fair, the First Annual!

These lucky people won a specially prepared soup from Brian's Soup Kitchen at the Birdhouse Inn.

Special thanks to Amanda Hill for being the "Drawing Girl". And to all the rest who particpated in our Ministry Fair, many thanks.

The chicks are three weeks old!

Wow, and flying and buzzing around!!

The chicks are three weeks old!

Wow, and flying and buzzing around!!

Prep Crew for the Fair Haven Congregational Church Vermont Maple Ham church dinner.

Don't we look like we're having fun?

Our Irish Mother and her pal, the Clerk of the Church, visiting with the chickies..."cheep, cheep..."

Time for a bedtime story...

Then time for lunch...

Others who seen seen at Warren Kimble's exhibition at Green Mountain College.

Guess who!?

The two sides of Warren Kimble:
America's foremost folk artist AND taking new directions.

His new works are completely different from anything you are familiar with. His recent showing at the Feick Center at Green Mountain College, "New Work: How Many Widows" are Iraq-related pieces inspired while at an artists' retreat. When listening to an NPR story about three more soldiers dying, Mr. Kimble thought of the women and children, the widows, whose lives would be forever changed. And there are other pieces which deal with the daily lives of people who have been affected by the war, the everyday details of home life which have been altered because of this war.

View Warren Kimble's exhibition at Green Mountain College, just minutes from the Birdhouse Inn.

Do you know any of those folks in the crod?

Our recent Poultney Chamber of Commerce Meeting at Thanks for the Memories store.

Some faces in the crowd...

"Aspet", St. Gaudens' home and National Historic Site. A great place to visit--soothing, relaxing and comfortable. the Park officially opens on Memorial Day, so we walked around the grounds and saw the outdoor sculptures and other sights.