This has been a dreary day, rainy, foggy, not too cold, but chilly-damp and depressing if you let it be. Aside from my computer acting up this morning so I couldn't scan, things went surprisingly well in spite of the fact I was dragging a bit after getting in so late last night. No, we weren't partying - or not exactly. We were counting votes after the polls closed in Cabot, and actually it was sort of a party atmosphere, but the folks who'd been there all day like Chris, Velma, Blanche, Carla, and Harry, were only wanting to get things done so they could go home, I'm sure. There were a few last-minute voters when Fred and I got there at about 6:45 p.m., but the polls closed promptly at 7 and we began counting the masses of paper ballots. I think there were at least a dozen workers paired up in twos. By ten o'clock it began to look as if we might be in the home stretch, and shortly after 11 we were pretty well finished. It seems as if counting votes wouldn't be such a difficult task, and it isn't - but if you've ever done it, you know you get really tired. We were glad to be home a little before midnight.

It's nice to be through with the campaign ads and telephone calls - I don't think the phone rang more than a couple times all day! I've had time to go through some of the pictures I've taken in the past few days and thought you might like to see the progress on the Noyes cottage here on W. Shore Rd. We haven't been down to see how the Allen's addition is coming along; and we need to check out the progress on the Richer's new garage/wood working shop. The weather will be changing radically by this weekend - forecast is for snow again - so that may slow things down a bit.

Once again Fred has changed the web site to make it easier, we hope, to navigate. You'll find "Community Links" where the "Community Storefront" used to be, and he has consolidated some pages and added new links that may be helpful. We'll be adding some photos to the gallery soon, too. Oh, yes, Fred says to be sure an check out "mapping" at the bottom of the Community Links page under "General Interest." That is a new technique that includes something like 12 cities now and is eventually going to be available for the whole country. I plugged in New York City and went to "street level" and "hybrid" - it's like being in a low-flying plane over the city. You can take a virtual tour of the city. Cool.

I almost forgot - Hastings Store has a new web site and we've linked to it. Also, we will have the newsletter out soon. Evelyn is being interrupted by the work on the garage but we'll still have the newsletter to you before Thanksgiving. It's going to be another biggie, I think, lots of pages.