Not a lot of sewing

In spite of the above, I've done very little sewing in the last few days, but it's been fun anyway.  Sunday, we picked up Paul's brother Jim at the airport, and we've been busy "entertaining."  Monday we drove to Windsor, VT, a little over an hour south, for lunch with their sister Carole and her husband John at the Harpoon Brewery.  The weather couldn't have been much better, and after lunch we sat outside to chat.

Yesterday, we visited the Vermont Granite Museum here in town.   Jim is a geologist and wore is "Easily distracted by rocks t-shirt.   The exhibits tell the story of Barre's granite industry, and there was a sculptor working on several impressive, large pieces.  Afterwards, we stopped at Studio Place Arts to look at the gallery's annual "stone" show.  It wasn't open on Tuesdays, but the director saw us peeking in the window and opened up anyway.  The many sculptures from a variety of stone were very interesting.  Outside the gallery, Jim was able to see "the world's largest zipper" made of granite by the same sculptor who was working at the museum.

Lunch was at a restaurant that goes overboard decorating for Halloween, and on the way home we stopped to buy Jim a bag of apples to take home.  He says they just don't taste as good in Alabama.  We'll take him back to the airport this morning and get ourselves back to "normal" later.  The one thing we didn't do was get a maple "creemee" (Vermont-ese for soft serve ice cream).  Next time.