Christmas Day 2018

Our first Christmas in North Carolina!  Got a lot of stuff from Santa including a new desk to go with the 27" iMac he inherited from Daddy!  On a sentimental note: I bought Liane a trivet with our new Pittsboro zip code and we got a package in the mail from MaryAnn Ivers with a trivet with our old Amesbury zip code!  We have the side-by-side next to our stove.

Sentiments from Home

We got a big package of gifts in the mail from MaryAnn Ivers.  The card has a lovely picture of the Amesbury Upper Millyard in winter.  Her inscription about watching Henry grow up brings a tear to my every time I read it.  They were really great neighbors and MaryAnn and Henry were so close when he was a baby (he called her "May-Yann").  Hard to believe we didn't have a child when we moved there in 2006.  Henry's whole life took place on that cul-de-sac.

Pre-Christmas Fun

Back to the Soda Shoppe for me and Henry.  They have NY City style old fashioned chocolate egg creams, but this time we went with the standard ice cream float.  Later Henry made gingerbread cookies.

Snow!

 

11 inches in Bynum!  Locals told us it's the biggest storm they've seen in twenty years!  I think we brought it with us from New England.  p.s. Liane thought I was crazy to pack my cross-country ski gear when we moved South, but it only took a month before I used it - skied all over the neighborhood.

Interior Decorating

Aunt Gertrude's rug has returned!  It fit so well in the Beverly apartments (1997-2006), but didn't find a place in the Amesbury house.  So after a brief 12-year hiding in storage, it's back!  We decided it looks best in the new dining room.

Another School Picture!

His new school Perry Harrison Elementary insisted that he get another school picture taken so that he will be in this spring's year book.

Henry in the new Kitchen

Early Christmas

Henry wants to keep the old tradition up of putting up the tree on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  This is its new spot.

First Thanksgiving Dinner in NC

Bynum Bridge

Thanksgiving morning was really warm and sunny, so Liane and I took a walk on Bynum Bridge.  The neighborhood there is a little artist colony.  The general store has live bluegrass music shows.  And it's 2-3 minutes from our house!

S&T's Soda Shoppe

Old fashioned soda shop in downtown Pittsboro, well preserved from the early 20th century.

Saxapahaw

Spent a warm Saturday afternoon in Saxapahaw.  A little mill town on the Haw River that has a couple of excellent restaurants and brewery that makes Belgian style beers!

Official "Cackalackys"

House and Neighborhood

The Horizon development in Bynum NC.  Our postal address is the little quaint town of Pittsboro, but we actually live in a completely rural "village" called Bynum.