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December 15, 2004:  North Conway Village with Mt Washington in the Background.  

December 15, 2004:  A great day in the Valley.  This is Mount Washington and Presidential Range taken from Route 16 at Intervale.  The little bump in the foreground with a house visible is the new Pear Mountain Development.  There are still a couple of houses for sale there starting at $1.2 million.

December 8:  We got about 4 inches of heavy wet snow and sleet last night.  View from office.

October 28 2004:  Paving the back road from Cottage #8, to the dumpster and up to the motel units: 

October 28:  Your rental dollars at work!

October 23, 2004:  Here is a good portion of the Eliason Clan having their get together at Sky Valley.

October 21:  View taken from the shoulder of Mount Attitash, near the Top Notch Condos.  Looking West into Crawford Notch.  Sky Valley is just to the left of the middle of the picture.  

October 20:  7 a.m. frosty morning.  Still a few leaves on the trees. 

October 14, 2004  Frank Penny from Nova Scotia perusing the price list:

  

Oct 10 2004:  About 6 p.m. looking west from the Office:

October 3, 2004:  Here's the Apartment Building without the front hedge.  Apartment "C" now gets a nice view out to the playground field.  

October 2, 2004:  David playing with the chain saw...I still have all my fingers too.

September 29:  Your rental dollars at work...Chalet 3 gets a new roof.

September 19: Took a little drive up through Crawford Notch a few days ago.  Here's the view looking east, down the Notch.  

September 19:  We even got to see the Conway Scenic Railroad Train go over the trestle.  

September 19:  Here's another picture of the Buick. The inside is near perfect condition. Would make a great winter car project for some clever person.  It's still for sale and blocking up my lawn-mower shed.

September 12, 2004:  Here's David Eliason enjoying the afternoon sun on the motel porch.

September 1:  Dad's 1964 Buick Riviera sees the light of Day for the first time in about 25 years.  Any collectors out there?  He said he would take about $3500. for it...

September 1:  Here's the Buick moving team.  It took all five of us to push it into this shed.  Hopefully we can sell it before snow flies!  The  license plate is dated 1975.  It has been stored inside since then.

August 30, 2004:  Early this morning Mrs Ferro encountered this big bruin on top of the dumpster with two cubs.  The two yellow ear tags indicate it's a "problem-bear" and has had run-ins with the law before.  Since our dumpster is always barred there was no meal here. 

August 18,, 2004:  Brother "Hap" pulled up today with a big truck and took away our 25 year old wood pile.  I guess he will be building something now:

August 18, 2004:  Here are the wood movers, Brother Hap, Lorraine and Maggi....I helped too.

August 14, 2004:  Cousin Bob Eliason from Virginia is on his way home after hiking the Cohos trail to the Canadian Border.  That's Dave Eliason on the right.

August 10, 2004:  Tame deer (Bucky) came wandering in from somewhere and hung around for a few hours.  

July 30:  Here's a nice shot of the pool at night.  This photo courtesy of Jim Harrington in Saugus.  (I don't know how to take pictures in the dark) Here's a link to Jim's slide scanning service 

July 30, 2004:  Here is another Harrington photo:  If you would like to see more of Jim's work here's the link to his website: 

July 29:  Folks on the swings in the Center field. 

July 29:  The south field freshly mown:

July 20:  5 in the morning.  Fog is rolling down the Saco River Valley in Bartlett.  The Village is under the fog on the extreme left.  The Mountains from left to right include Wildcat, Iron, Langdon, Pickering, Stanton Doublehead and Kearsarge North.  This picture is worth the time it takes to see the bigger version.

July 19, 2004:  Our colder and rainier than usual summer continues along.  The flowers are about 2 weeks behind where they should be.  

June 30:  For those of you who were here last summer you'll be Glad to see Dave MacLeod is back at the front desk again:  

June 30:  Vermont Mutual Insurance Company take note, here are the deck railings you wanted installed.  The West Deck was done a few days ago:

June 30:  And here is the east deck railings which I just finished this morning:

June 27:  Here's the view from the West Deck of Chalet #3.  That's Mount Tremont sticking up in the distance.

June 19:  Cree and Heath get themselves a boat!

June 5, One of several huge Jade plants that my son Ramsay grew from one leaf when he was in the 8th grade.  I think that was about 10 years ago.

June 5,  The swimming pool finished filling up last night and it looks a lot nicer than it feels right now.  It's temperature is probably in the upper 50's today.

June 5, 2004:  The playground, such as it is, looking east towards Mt Attitash.  There are swings, tether ball, see/saw, volleyball net and horse shoe pits.  The insurance company has their own ideas about our playground and like it just the way it is.

June 4, 2004:  The "piney-forest" at the west end of the property.  David planted these trees while in High School in 1965.  He worked for two weeks pulling up and bundling little seedlings for Western Maine Nurseries in Fryeburg.  These were little trees that didn't make the grade and they gave them away to us "migrant workers".  The temporary job only lasted three weeks.

June 3, 2004:  Patio near Motel Unit 11, overlooking the vegetable garden that we haven't had time to plant yet. 

June 2, 2004:  The main office and David's Eco-Art.

June 2, 2004:  The little garden is blooming today.

June 1 2004  Pool is about half full of very frigid water:

May 27  The porch plants are coming along good. Gladiolas are just peeping out from under the red bark mulch.   The motel units are off in the background.

May 27, 2004:  Planting time has arrived...along with a new toy.

May 27:  Two happy tourists heading home to Plymouth:

May 15, 2004:  A Hot day followed by later afternoon thunder storms. A rainbow popped up off to the east.  

May 14, 2004:  Here's the view from the Office Porch today:  This is looking north towards the 11-16 motel units.

May 14, 2004:  Another picture from the Office Porch.  Looking out over the gladiola bed, the Japanese Crabapple Tree is just starting to bloom bright pink.  That's Motel Units 21-24. 

May 14. 2004:  The view west from the office porch.  Some grass still has some winter-kill that hasn't cured itself yet.

April 21, 2004:  In case you were wondering, the Bear Notch Road IS OPEN.  Here's the  view from 2nd overlook:

April 20, 2004:  Here's the view from the office this morning...Still rather bleak!

April 5, 2004:  The pool survived its 48th winter and is almost as old as me.  You will notice Attitash Ski Trails in the background with plenty of snow, but the Mountain closed yesterday due to lack of interest.

April 4, 2004:  Here's what things look like here today.  The 6 inch snowstorm we were supposed to get never arrived.  

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