Celestial Events in 2016

After our family went to the town meeting in Bradford last night we came back to a beautiful starlit night.  As I was walking the family puppy dog to close out the evening I even saw a meteor flash across the sky! 

This got me thinking about how wonderful the view was likely to be of major celestial events now that we've settled in out here in the countryside of New Hampshire.  Even more, it got me thinking how we can we share this amazing view with our guests in the future.  So I went out and found a short list of expected 2016 nighttime events  (Credit given to the New Hampshire Astronomical Society ( http://www.nhastro.com/ and their wonderful calendar)).

April 21-23 - Lyrid meteor shower

May 5-7 - Aquarid meteor shower

May 21 – Blue Moon

July 29-31 - Delta Aquarid meteor shower

August 12 and 14 – Perseids meteor showers

October, November and December will be a busy months with two meteor showers each month:

     Draconid meteors - October 7-9

     Orionid meteors - October 20-23

November:

    Taurid meteors November 4-7

    Leonid meteors - November 16-19 

December:

     Geminids meteor shower – December 13-14 - This one is estimated at 120 meteors per hour – but Full Cold Moon could impact December 14^th – so the best time to see them is Dec 13th.

      Ursid meteor shower - December 22-24th

     

Three Super Moons at the end of the year are:

October 16 – Blood Moon

November 14– Hunters Moon

December 14 Full Cold Moon

For those of you wanting to come experience any of the above give us a call or check out our availability online.  Sniffles wouldn't mind the extra company once he's gotten to know you, if you want to walk with us.  Or, you and your partner can talk a nice romantic stroll down the lane by yourselves to experience the same.  Let me know and Sniffles and I can walk the other direction, so you can have your privacy that night! 

Either way you can take a nice walk  for a bit down the country lane that runs in front of the Rosewood Country Inn, to see what the sky's decide to reveal that night! 

Disclaimer - of course, you never know when mother nature will allow us to see and you are never guaranteed to have as stunningly clear sky as I experienced last night.  But if you aren't here to experience it, I can guaranteed you won't see it! 

New page for our family, the Rosewood Country Inn and March activities

It's March in New Hampshire and Odo and I (Stan) have been here for the last three months.  So far it's been a blast, it's been a very mild winter, far milder than we had expected coming up from Texas but I can truly say we are loving New Hampshire.  For those of you that don't know we moved to New Hampshire to take over the Rosewood Country Inn in December!  Yes, all of our friends in the Lone Star state said we were crazy but it's what we've talked about doing ever since before we got married 11 years ago.

Now onto March activities in the great state of New Hampshire.  For those of you that don't know, March is the time for making maple syrup.  So the sugar houses around here have already started cooking and the weekend of March 19th is officially Maple Weekend throughout the entire state.  Attached is a link so you can find activities in our area or wherever you happen to be:  http://www.nhmapleproducers.com/maple-producer-events/maple-weekend-and-month/.  Different sugar houses will be open so you can sample their syrups and candies and all sorts of goodies!

Come on down or up as the case may be and sample a few, and after all that sugar you will need to rest so come on by and stay in one of our 11 beautiful rooms.
Cheers from Stan, Odo, our boy Karl and even our little Jack Russell terrier

P.S.  For anyone allergic to dogs or animals in general we can assure you our puppy dog never comes into the Inn.  If you are outside he will come bark at you, or sniff at you but he's as sweet as can be and just curious.      

Old Store Museum in South Sutton

History: A Family Business Remembered

The Wells Family and the Old Store Museum

By John Walters

Photos by Paul Howe and Laura Jean Whitcomb

This bright red wooden building used to be the heart of a rural New Hampshire town. Now, its two rooms are chock full of memories and mementoes, reflections of an era gone by. South Sutton’s general store, “George G. Wells Company” by name, is now the Old Store Museum. “The post office was right in that corner, and the rest of this was merchandise of various kinds,” says George Wells. “We sold everything. Groceries, meat, eggs, coffee, tea, dry goods, clothes, wallpaper, paint, hardware, farm implements, everything. If somebody needed a bathtub, we would order it through a wholesaler in Concord. The storekeeper was the guy who took care of the village.” He should know; the now 84-year-old Wells spent much of his childhood in the store, which was the family business for many decades.

See the rest of this article published by Kearsarge Magazine at

http://www.kearsargemagazine.com/issue/kcc/