Lyme Local

Our Dartmouth neighbor Carol Pye introduced us to Bill Noble by way of a book he wrote about his garden near Norwich.We enjoyed the sights and sounds (so many birds!) during our visit today.

We used Williams-Sonoma gift cards received as gifts. Total cost: $2,100. (But we saved $120 in Louisville sales tax by having it all shipped to Lyme.)

We were supposed to be in Lyme June 14, but Brian was under the weather, so we delayed our visit until much later in the month.

Pompanoosuc Mills in Thetford built the walnut chair for $946, but it’ll last a couple lifetimes.

Note the position of the valves, because this shows how they should look after the water has been turned on.

Josie showed us how to play with a balloon while Emmy worked on puzzles. Fiona was there, too.

Emmy’s paper airplane has her name on it:

Enjoying pumpkin and banana:

A selfie!

It was a rookie mistake. While driving down a hill on the Vermont side of the Thetford bridge, Jim braked at the wrong time, sending the car sliding into a snow bank. At first, Brian couldn’t open the passenger side door because it was stuck against a snow bank on the other side, so he climbed across the driver’s seat:

We got closer to that telephone pole than it appears here:

A young woman, Sophie, arrived right after our accident and called the police for us. Soon, a tow truck from Ward’s Garage in Vershire, Vt., arrived to pull the car out. (Cost: only $150.) We then drove the rest of the way back to Lyme.

Sophie invited us to join her in her heated car while we waited for the tow. It’s a small world. It turns out Sophie lives right around the corner on Market Street, where her mother owns the Monarch Family Medicine practice.