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Reflections on a Full Year: Weddings, Births, Retirement, Passing Torches…

Sometimes, when words and tears cannot suffice—the only thing left to pour out my heart is write. Yesterday was such a day. I had gone to the newly completed barn at Smuggler’s Notch and took dozens of pictures—many of which are culled into this post. I met with our amazing and perseverant client, Steve DePalma,

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exterior wedding barn, event, porch, landscape, cupola

Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire Builds: Racing to the Finish Lines

I think it is tautological that summer ratchets up the pace—but finishing SIX structures within a couple of months interval is decidedly madness….and especially when one of them is a first class wedding venue with a ceremony scheduled for July 2nd….and four homes with eager clients waiting to move in, moving in, or just moved

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Travel, Tumult and Tenderness: Learning to Listen in the Wind

This has been a rough several weeks…..starting with a wonderful trip to CA and back to celebrate my dad’s 95th birthday and meeting my fourteenth grandson, Arlo Pier Abetti at the happy event. Dad is doing remarkably well—while still grieving over the death of his beloved Betty Burr—he is still working full time and still

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