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!
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Our rental car skidded off the road when Jim was at the wheel
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.
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Fall colors in 2024 started to peak in early October
This was taken Oct. 5 and looks south behind our unit.
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A field trip to the Simon Pearce restaurant and factory in Quechee, Vt., and a new pollinator garden next door
The restaurant is housed in the red-brick building. The river once powered a mill. They actually manufacture glassware in the building. 
Covered bridges are iconic; this one was outside the restaurant. 
Northern Woodlands’ new executive director Jack Saul inaugurates the new pollinator garden. 
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Exploring the outdoors, here and in Hanover
We visited Post Pond for the first time and saw huge hydrangeas outside the Hanover Inn when we stopped for lunch.
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We took a five-mile walk through the nearby woods
The gravel road started just a block from our condo and rose and rose for several miles before we reached the peak. This was our clockwise route:
Trees formed a natural, shady allée. 
Getting closer to the gravel road’s peak. 
Lots of property was off limits. 
We spotted these mushrooms growing on a tree. 
There were ferns everywhere.
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