New Hampshire - July 27th - 29th

Now we slowly start the journey back home. But first a stop at a famous retail and mail order quilt shop, Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, New Hampshire.

We arrived at the Ames Brook Campground in nearby Ashland, NH on July 27^th and decided to stay for three days so we would have enough time to visit the quilt shop plus the beautiful local towns and lakes.

The front building at Keepsake Quilting.

It was such a treat to visit Keepsake Quilting after many years of receiving their mail order catalog. The shop has a large porch with chairs for husbands and several of the chairs were filled with bored looking men or ones that decided to take a nap.  Jim took a quick look around inside the shop and then left to join the men on the porch.  That gave me a chance to do some shopping! A while later I came out with several quilt kits and a Keepsake Quilt t-shirt.

Part of the porch used by patient husbands.

New Hampshire is beautiful and the movie On Golden Pond was filmed at Squam Lake in nearby Holderness, NH. It’s a quaint New England town stretched alongside the lake. While we were having lunch in a local restaurant a crown broke off Jim’s tooth. Fortunately there was no pain associated with the break. Since it was the weekend a call to our dentist would have to wait until they were in the office.

Squam Lake alias "Golden Pond"

Covered bridge on Squam Lake