We went to Groton, CT for the USS NAUTILUS's 50th anniversary. In the picture you can see the size change of submarines from earliest to latest.

This was supposed to be a crew-only picture, but a few of the wives got in there too. Jerry is just to the right of center in the back row.

This is Ft. Griswald, overlooking the Thames River in New London, CT. We took a bus tour around Groton and New London.

We ate at this place 3 times--excellent seafood. We thought the sign was a misprint, but they usually do have 9 pound lobsters! Largest they had when we were there was 6 pounds.

Barbara, friend Kate, Cindy and Susan. We met Kate when we lived in York, Maine in 1981, and have been friends since then. Susan, Cindy and Barbara flew up for a 4-day weekend. They stayed with Kate and her family Friday and Sunday nights and kidnapped her for a girls only adventure on Saturday. It was a wonderful trip.

Long Sands Beach, York, Maine. We lived 1 mile from here in 1981.

This is taken from the parking lot at Cape Neddick Lighthouse (known as Nubble Light) in York, Maine.

Cape Neddick Lighthouse in York, Maine (known as Nubble Light). We used to live about 3 miles from here and called it "our" lighthouse.

Sign says Moose Crossing. Taken from the car on the way to Manchester, NH airport.

Taken from the car on the way to the Manchester, NH airport.

This is some of the members of out quilt group. I'm in the back row, right. The red quilt we're working on is almost finished (and will be raffled), and the one on the wall is in the sewing stages. The white on the wall is flannel, allowing us to move the blocks around. A few have fallen off.

This is the start of making apple butter at church. We started at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, October 22 peeling, coring and slicing 39 bushels of apples.

Jerry is peeling the apples. We had 7 peeling devices going at once and several of us to cut out the pieces the machines missed.

Paul, our Pastor is in the blue. Peeling and pre-cooking was an all day job. We boiled the apples for a few minutes to cut down on Saturday's job.

We started lighting the fires at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 23. We had 7 kettles cooking about 7 hours. While we waited for the coals to get hot we also cooked breakfast inside.

Because the fires get so hot the paddles are attached to long poles.

Jerry's turn. The apples have to be constantly stirred or they will burn.

They say smoke follows beauty! It gets too hot to stand any closer. Barbara is on the right end.

We had 2 lines canning. We made 74 1/2 gallons of apple butter!

This is our church, Valley Forge Methodist. Everybody here is so friendly and has gone out of their way to make us feel welcome.

This is a distant shot of our house. Usually when we take mountain pictures, we're in our front yard facing toward the camera. We also have mountains behind us.

These horses are to our west. The picture is taken just before we turn into our driveway.

The blue building is the closest pizza shop, in Hampton (about 3 miles from home).

The sky was very cloudy, but the trees were beautiful. You can see glimpses of Watauga Lake.

This is the Christian camp at Doe River Gorge, located about a mile east of here. They had an open house with a train ride through the gorge that we enjoyed. The train cars in the picture are bunk rooms. The camp also had a beautiful, huge cabin with bunks and lots of really fun things to do. Sure better than any camp we'd ever seen before!

The grassy areas around the house we kept raked, but it sure is nice to be able to leave some to Mother Nature! This is our hill to the west.

The last of this year's autumn pictures. We thought they were gorgeous, but so many folks have told us the color wasn't very good this year. Maybe next year will be even better! We've replaced the screen in the door. Blackie, our lab, was not happy when the neighbor's 3 dogs showed up in our yard.