Another busy day here at the Brown house. I've been filing stuff, cleaning up my office, and researching - plus I sent granddaughter Jo-Ann a recipe for a dip she really liked that I took there on Wednesday. She is good help in the kitchen as well as with her baby sister. Fred has been working on a website for a new client and mowed the lawn this afternoon. Woody had a nap - you can see how tired he was after helping Fred wash the car.

I met yesterday afternoon with a very nice couple who were researching their Cabot ancestors. We met at the historical society building and they were very impressed with our research library and with our exhibits, but I think they were most enthusiastic about the building itself. The first floor of the museum is very nice now, and right away one can tell it's a very old building; however, once upstairs, the beautiful matched boarding on the high vaulted ceiling, the stage, woodwork - it is very impressive, even without the beautiful painted stage curtain and all the fine exhibits. They took time to look around and learned quite a bit about how their ancestors may have lived in the 1800's.

When we were finished there, I took them to Cabot Plain to show them where the Yellow House tavern was and let them see where the Bayley-Hazen Road crosses the plain and heads north towards Canada. It was lovely up there, with a stiff breeze and almost 360 degree views - there is only woods looking south, but they appreciated seeing the White Mountains, where they had spent several days with a group in Whitefield, and points both north and west.

When I got home from there we went to Littleton to return the TV we got a few weeks ago. It was a lovely picture, but the speakers were in the back, which would be fine if it was backed up to a wall so the sound could bounce off, but ours is on casters so we can turn it towards the kitchen, dining area or living room, and it was driving us a little crazy because it was too loud for anyone in back of it, so we were constantly adjusting if someone was on the phone in the kitchen or whatever. That's one inconvenient thing about our no longer having cordless phones - where the phone is is where you take the call. No roaming around the house, phone in hand. Anyway, we had found another TV with speakers in the front - got it going and it is so much better for us.

When we got home, we found an e-mail from daughter-in-law Theresa letting us know she has their new website up and running. She built it so they (she, Bob and Jamie) would have an outlet for their music CD, "Welcome to My World." The website is pretty cool - you can preview songs from the CD and download them - also, the lyrics are posted on the site. I often have trouble understanding the words in songs; my ears aren't as good as they were before hosting a rock and roll band at our house "back in the day."

This is what the CD looks like, and you can hear samples of the music by going to: www.ricksharadio.com
Click on "Music" to find their store.
You won't hear any familiar tunes unless you've happened to hear the band a few years ago when they opened for a Tank Band benefit at the Packing House in Lyndonville. The music and lyrics are originals. Some of you know about the band - it's strictly family, with our middle son, Bob doing lead vocals and keyboards, his wife, Theresa is on drums, and our youngest, Jamie on guitar. No, Bill isn't a part of this group. I think both Theresa and Jamie do backup vocals. Some people may remember Bob's first recording, "Man in a Hurry," that came out quite a few years ago - a cassette, and I'm pretty sure there are a few fans of "BB and the Phantom Band" still around who will want to check this out. Fred is putting a link to their website on ours and you can also find the CD on our "Local Products" page soon.