Naulakha

Eight of us. We have been friends for almost 40 years. Of late we have been doing more and more things together and one of our party was fascinated by Rudyard Kipling's house in Vermont, Naulakha, just north of Brattleboro. It has been restored and is available for rental, and we just spent a long weekend there. It is a beautiful building, on a hillside from which Mount Monadnock is visible. It is at the center of a number of bookstores, fiber studios, yarn shops, restaurants and touristy places. We never stopped talking all weekend, as usual, and we cooked and ate and visited like we can't do while we are trying to work and live our normal lives. It amazes me that we can work so well together on the mechanics of living. We joke about the Old Fans' Home, and living together when we retire, but to me this is not a joke.