I had to work part of Satuday (deja vu?) so Andy, Aiden and Grandma Chris met up with me at Ordione Point, on the seacost, since I was working nearby. After visiting the Science Center, we played on the huge playground, did some birding, and went out for an early dinner at a smokehouse BBQ place in Portsmouth.
The next morning, with Grandma's help watching Aiden, Andy and I were able to finish our raised vegetable beds we've been constructing and filling in the back yard. We have basically placed them in a clay soil wet meadow, so we worked out a semi-elaborate drainage system and will hope for the best next spring (i.e. that they don't turn into mud soup). We made an extra (smaller) bed at the end for Aiden so that he will have his own place to root around, plant seeds, and pull weeds. He seems excited but keeps telling us that the little bed is "Da-doo's." Several of the large ones Aiden has claimed for himself apparently.
We also took an afternoon to visit a friend of Chris' who she used to work with at Suffolk Community College. Chris' friend Lucille and her husband Tom recently moved to Center Sandwich, NH and are renovating an old colonial which they hope to operate as a B&B. It's a beautiful house and grounds, as you can see from the photos below. We had coffee and cake on fine china in their dining room, which was definitley Aiden's most refined dining experience to date! He didn't break anything, so we felt proud :)
Back at home, endless leaves to rake up. Andy says the trees are just laughing at the futility of our raking when they still have so many more leaves to drop. He's probably right. But Aiden loves hamming it up in the leaf piles, so I like to think the trees are just laughing at him.
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