Adventures with Grandma

We've been having some fun lately with Grandma Chris here, though not exactly fun in the "sun." We went to a double pig roast on a property Andy is helping to protect through his work at Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust one night... Aiden got chased around and tickled by three doting older girls all evening, as we sampled some of the most juicy and tender pork I've ever had. I tried very hard not to look at the hairy snout between grabbing hunks of steaming meat.

Aiden adopted a new family at the pig roast

We also went raspberry picking at Beaver Pond Farm in Newport, NH, and ended up picking so many quarts that we made a great big batch of raspberry-peach preserves. At almost 3 years old, I can confidently report that Aiden has not yeat learned to fill (or even sparsely populate) a "container" other than his belly while berry picking. He hardly ate any of his lunch at our picnic on Lake Sunapee afterwards.

At Sunapee Harbor

One of the Gnus of New London, but this one's in Sunapee

And we drove up Mount Washington too, if only to put this summer's gloomy weather in perspective. It was definitely winter on the 6,200+ foot summit - 40 degrees, 20' of visibility, and 50 mph winds - so by comparison our current summer weather, however rainy, felt like a blessing when we got down. I drove the car up and back so Andy could close his eyes during boughts of acrophobia - but he wasn't as bad off as one guy we spied puking his guts out at one of the pull-offs. Yikes. It's a nerve-wracking drive, to be sure. I don't think we'll try that again unless the summit is 100% clear and there's a bigger payoff at the top!

Cheesy smile part way up

Scenes fr0m Mount Washington

Ha ha ha.

Moment of clearing, and then it was gone

We could barely stand up because of the wind