Saturday, September 23rd

We went to breakfast at Polly's Pancake Parlor with Terry & Sylvia Hix. Polly's is one of our favorite places in New England. We have been eating breakfasts here for over thirty years.

Later, MA and I drove up to Littleton, NH and visited Jim & Barbara Quinn, former owners of the Sugar Hill Inn in Sugar Hill, NH. Four years ago, Jim & Barbara sold the inn and two owners later, dinner prices are so expensive there that none of our group will be eating there. We will just have to be content with warm memories of some great autumn and winter week-ends staying and dining there when Jim & Barbara owned the inn. We had a great visit with Jim & Barbara. They currently own Bishop's Ice Cream Parlor in Littleton and will be relocating to The Villages near Ocala, Florida in the near future.
Stopped into the New Hampshire State Liquor Store in Littleton. Prices in NH are so cheap (and no sales tax!) that we spent $250 and feel like we SAVED about $100...go figure.Got a haircut and then we drove down to Bath and North Haverhill, NH looking for the farmer's market. Didn't find it but did get some Courtland apples from the Windy Hill Orchard. This is the covered bridge in Bath, NH.

For dinner, Fred Walton cooked up a batch of Tamale Soup for the group. It was not easy to find tamales in New England, but we finally found some. I had never eaten tamale soup...very good (with plenty of cheese).