Three Lindas In Vermont

I'm having a great time in Vermont! Highlight of my week was getting to meet, face to face, my Etsy blogger teammate, Linda Wheelock, or as we all affectionately know her, Mrs. Moo. She was a great hostess and took me all around her 'neck of the woods'.

Our first stop was to an award winning cheese farm (is that the way you say it, Linda?) called Neighborly Farms of Vermont, which her friend owns. The owners name is also 'Linda'. So we took this picture out in front of her business. Left to right, Linda the business owner, Linda (me)Pruitthandcrafts blogger, and Linda the Spottedcowsoaps blogger (Mrs. Moo). Linda and her family have a nice little business (probably not so little, since she sells to Trader Joes!) Anyway, I didn't get to see them making cheese, since it was the day that they clean the entire cheese making room, making sure that everything is spotless. Watching them in the process was very interesting.

Linda (Mrs. Moo) then took me to a little General Store in Randolph Center VT. The owner there was another of Linda's friends, a volunteer firefighter who once helped save her house during a fire! The store had the old wood flooring, and everything that you might need, including local maple syrup, and honey. It also had a quaint area around the pot belly stove with chairs in a circle that housed the morning coffee klatch. I bought several lovely postcards.


Next, was a tour of Randolf, where Linda (Mrs. Moo) lives! Beautiful little town! Lovely old homes and buildings, all in immaculately kept conditions. I was so impressed with the homes in Vermont, as all of them seem to be well kept with beautiful flowers everywhere in gardens and pots with lovely manicured lawns!

I will leave you today, with another picture of the two blogger Lindas and Mrs. Moo's son Josh. Thank you Linda, for a wonderful afternoon in the Randolph area of Vermont!

Wordless Wednesday--Vermont

Northfield Falls' Covered Bridges!

Yesterday after hubby's seminar session, we went to see the sights! Just down the road a few miles in Northfield Falls on Cox Brook (that runs into the Dog River), there are three covered bridges right in a row. They all date from the 1870's and there is a sign that warns you: "horses at a walk" thru the bridge.

We learned a little about their architectural designs as two of them are Queen's Post design and the third is a Town Lattice design. We didn't get good pictures of the inside of the structures, although if you look close you can see the lattice design on the inside of the first picture and the vertical posts of the Queen's Post design in the last picture. Bridges are in very good repair, kept up by the Northfield Falls township. The country lane that goes thru them is called Cox Brook Road and it is dotted with delightful old homes in very good repair and upkeep (some of them are the saltbox style) and all with pretty flowers and beautiful manicured lawns; they are a nestled in rolling deciduous forest with green grassy areas in full display with wild flowers--buttercups and lupines, to name a few. At one point under the one bridge in Cox Brook were some local children playing in the brook while their mom kept watch from the grassy slope. We took lots of pictures, here are just a few: