It Starts.....Hurricane Sandy left us wet, semi-functional electronically and under heavy overcast skies. Couldn't get on-line and the house was dreary so we took off and headed for Portsmouth NH on the Atlantic ocean. Portsmouth was incorporated as a city in 1653. I think it is about 80 miles East of where I live. This bracelet really had to officially start at the Eastern edge of the USA for this trip.
They were moving a crane on a barge in Portsmouth harbor. This little piece of water has some working fishing boats in it.
We were next to Strawberry Banke Museum, just across the water from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. all of that green grass was water and wharves back when the dark brown building was built in the 1600's.
Then my boyfriend had to get in the act and insisted that we were so close to Maine that we had to go over the bridge into Kittery. Quickest visit I've ever made to Maine since I moved East 40 years ago! I can see it now..... he's going to be finagling the trip route the whole way to catch small corners of states.
But.... we can add Maine to the list of States visited. That's two; NH & Maine. I guess I need to make a check list to keep on the blog.
Now it's time to start shutting down the house and put it into cold storage for the winter.
Oh, dear..... all of the beads need to be cleaned off of the work surfaces, put away into the cases and then packed for the trip. Then we can hit the road .... hitting the road in 9 days.
Bracelet Side Trips......
The bracelet was sent to me early to make sure I had it before I left. While waiting for the trip to begin, it hurried up the guys putting cedar shingles on the end of the house.
It went to the BSNH Fall Bead Retreat with me. A lot of the gals there added notes and best wishes to the booklet that goes with the bracelet.
Lots of good karma at a bead retreat.
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