The Coffee House

[terri51]

Our first customer has officially purchased a beer! Our soft openings start this week, and we'll be open for business completely the next weekend.

She's currently performing on Broadway, so we "opened" for a few minutes on her off-day so that she could beat the crowds!

Congrats! When is the TPF meet up? How close are you to Foxwoods? Could be a multi-tasking trip! Any lighthouses nearby? A 3-fer!!!

1. You tell me.
2. 20 minutes if you’re not scared of driving fast on country roads.
3. Several, including one that was just opened up to tours here in New London after being closed to the public for a bit.

Our first customer has officially purchased a beer! Our soft openings start this week, and we'll be open for business completely the next weekend.

She's currently performing on Broadway, so we "opened" for a few minutes on her off-day so that she could beat the crowds!

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This is awesome! Love the pic and the special circumstances behind your official first customer. Congrats!

I'm going to miss all the fun. I want to be a New Englander, too!

Get your butt up here then!

Come on up, Terri!

Oh, don't tempt me!

 

[Tropicalmemories]

On a long business trip, playing with a mobile phone editing app in a grey motel, looking forward to the return leg.

 

[davidharmier60]

Thursday. Sort of like Monday but not as early in the day. Gotta go get propane today. Have a nice day y'all.

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[JonA_CT]

Our first customer has officially purchased a beer! Our soft openings start this week, and we'll be open for business completely the next weekend.

She's currently performing on Broadway, so we "opened" for a few minutes on her off-day so that she could beat the crowds!

Congrats! When is the TPF meet up? How close are you to Foxwoods? Could be a multi-tasking trip! Any lighthouses nearby? A 3-fer!!!

1. You tell me.
2. 20 minutes if you’re not scared of driving fast on country roads.
3. Several, including one that was just opened up to tours here in New London after being closed to the public for a bit.

Our first customer has officially purchased a beer! Our soft openings start this week, and we'll be open for business completely the next weekend.

She's currently performing on Broadway, so we "opened" for a few minutes on her off-day so that she could beat the crowds!

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This is awesome! Love the pic and the special circumstances behind your official first customer. Congrats!

I'm going to miss all the fun. I want to be a New Englander, too!

Get your butt up here then!

Come on up, Terri!

Oh, don't tempt me!

New London (and the world-class casinos nearby, too) is very centrally located between Boston and NYC. It's a 2-2.5 hour drive to both depending on traffic, and you can take commuter rail from NYC right to historic downtown New London.

This is a crappy time of year to visit, though. May or September/October are the perfect times. Nice weather, but not as crowded as it is during the summer.

 

[SquarePeg50]

Princess has me almost convinced that we need a 2nd dog. I'm concerned about our current cutie. Anyone have any experience adopting a youngish dog (maybe not a puppy but not much older) when you have an older dog that has had the house and family to themselves for 10 years? Our dog is not aggressive but he is not overly friendly with other dogs. He thinks he is a person.

 

[smoke665]

We had three at one time a Brittany female came first, and quickly became the alpha. A year later came a Yorkie female puppy. The Britt tolerated the Yorkie but was never overly friendly toward her. A year later a Boxer female came. The Boxer and the Yorkie quickly became lifelong best friends, and played together constantly. As the Boxer grew it was amazing at how careful she was in her play with the Yorkie, despite their tug of war battles with mock growls and head shakes, she knew instinctively to not hurt her buddy. The Brittany and the Boxer was another story. They ignored each other most of the time but as the Boxer grew in size she started questioning the Britt's alpha spot. Had several fights, over the years.

 

[CherylL]

We had an older schnauzer, Teddy, that went blind and really lost his spunk. Snickers was added to the family and he was about 11 months old so still sorta a puppy, but not all that biting phase. The first few days Teddy barked at him and I think because he didn't know where Snickers was standing. Turned out that Snickers helped Teddy navigate the yard and house. His spunk did come back with a playmate. Snickers would lead Teddy back to the house when he was lost in the yard.

 

[SquarePeg50]

We had three at one time a Brittany female came first, and quickly became the alpha. A year later came a Yorkie female puppy. The Britt tolerated the Yorkie but was never overly friendly toward her. A year later a Boxer female came. The Boxer and the Yorkie quickly became lifelong best friends, and played together constantly. As the Boxer grew it was amazing at how careful she was in her play with the Yorkie, despite their tug of war battles with mock growls and head shakes, she knew instinctively to not hurt her buddy. The Brittany and the Boxer was another story. They ignored each other most of the time but as the Boxer grew in size she started questioning the Britt's alpha spot. Had several fights, over the years.

Our dog is 10 and about 15lbs. Our criteria for the prospective dog - will grow to about the same size and be a year or younger when we get it and a female. Our dog is not good with larger male dogs.

We had an older schnauzer, Teddy, that went blind and really lost his spunk. Snickers was added to the family and he was about 11 months old so still sorta a puppy, but not all that biting phase. The first few days Teddy barked at him and I think because he didn't know where Snickers was standing. Turned out that Snickers helped Teddy navigate the yard and house. His spunk did come back with a playmate. Snickers would lead Teddy back to the house when he was lost in the yard.

This is a sweet story. Sniff sniff. Is it dusty in here?

 

[davidharmier60]

In Cold Springs for propane

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[limr45]

@terri - don't listen to Jon, April is a fine time to visit the northeast

 

[vintagesnaps]

Opening Day!!!!! I like a good parade - from the comfort of my living room. 100th parade, 150th anniversary for the team - that's a lot of baseball!

Fireworks shooting out of the back of a truck, yeah there's a great idea! Must've been loud there from the way the announcers reacted. Different stations set up at different locations to see it all.

 

[vintagesnaps]

2+ hours and parade was winding down. Saw pigs not flying, someone riding in an old style bathtub following a Beer Saved Baseball float, Santa following a garbage truck, I think those wre the oddities/lowlights! lol

Sun started shining and highlights were Rosie Reds (my grandma was one but don't ask me what they did!), one of the vintage ball clubs, Mr. Red who will be on benches in various vintage Red Stockings/Reds uniforms around the city this summer, and an old style bus going to Crosley Field. And a '50s red & white Chevy with Johnny Bench and the MLB commissioner; local sports announcer turned into a kid/rabid fan. One of the announcers said when she first met Bench she was speechless; once I got to go out on the ice pregame and take pictures of his ceremonial puck drop and I was just hoping to not fall on my ass.

There were a lot of kids that didn't go to school today! They need to go back to this being on a Monday and just close schools, make it an official holiday already!

 

[Original katomi]

Hi all from UK
Just got time for a sm cappchino want to be out with camera but have to do gardening whilst the sun is out. I sound like a five year old I want..... I wanna play with my camera not the weeds lol

 

[davidharmier60]

Another day of 6 plus for 24.06 for the week with two days to go.
No dog escapees for the second day in a row.
And that's all I got right now.

 

[snowbear132 63]

My Python conference trip to Columbus is booked. Unfortunately I missed where to put in my credit for having to cancel last year, so I can take a shot trip by the end of June. I’ve been told to take a long weekend for myself. Thinking about upper NY/Mass/NH/VT for photos, fishing or both. Any suggestions?