This was the first reservation I made for our first trip into New England while planning at home online a couple of weeks before catching our plan into Manchester, NH. On the phone with Donna, she gave concise directions from Weston's Vermont Co Store, from where we'd depart to head her way for the night. Our GPS directions gave the same route, but her reassurance meant a great deal at the end of a long day on roral roads. Elderly, but still very much able, Donna (and husband Bill and son Jeff next door and great-granddaughter Trinity) shared their sixth-generation (Bill's family) sugar maple farm house in such a way we felt like family! We had such a good time in that home! A talented artist of a rare technique of paint on velvet as well as the preacher two Sundays a month in the small church across the road, Donna revealed one surprise after another, but only when such is solicited. We had the entire upstairs to ourselves, but even with other occupants, we would've had a private bath. For breakfast, we enjoyed strawberries and bananas, banana bread and her homemade strawberry jam, farm-fresh, fried eggs, bacon, and pancakes with their own Smith family maple syrup. Jeff, who was expecting the veteranarian that morning as he raises grass-fed beef cattle, too, garbed in his 'chaps' (protective gear against the intense heat of boiling) to give us a tour of the high-tech processing of sap to syrup and other distinctly Vermont maple products. In the sugar shack among numerous blue ribbons, hangs an 8x10 or larger color photo of his mother Donna 'spinning gold' in a borrowed cotton candy machine for the Novelties blue ribbon at the Vermont State Fair in the early-1970s ( She gave her patent to the farm association with which they have been affiliated over the years, and they started making the product at the fair, where generally, a quarter's worth of syrup results in a $5 cone of true bliss! Jeff said they make and give away spun gold to their visitors during the sugaring season (which by our April 19 tour, had just closed. Jeff's hands were still rough from hand pulling taps from more than 12,000 trees on the finest land for maple syrup around!). We won't tell you what Donna would take for this one-night stay including tour because we ant them to make more money, but it was by far the cheapest lodging we've had in years!…
Datum för vistelsen: april 2017Restyp: Reste som ett parTips för att välja rum: As I always do--even in tandem with online--SPEAK DIRECTLY WITH DONNA OVER THE PHONE! She'll...
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