An Amazing Blessing

   A couple of weeks before we embarked on our Maine trip, I made the executive decision to line up a two night stay at a B&B up in middle Connecticut. Going strictly from a website, I booked this for us to have a brief interlude from the constant travel of the past week and the upcoming week as well. Just a rest stop.

   The Mount Pleasant Inn in Torrington, CT was ready for us when we arrived on last Tuesday.

   Our chairs were waiting for us also.

   Even the bricks in the sidewalk, these coming from a demolished farm building, were calling our name.

   The Innkeepers met us upon arrival and told us about the place and its history. The inn was in a 1760 farmhouse, which had been remodeled. Its four rooms were all upstairs.

   Bob, the innkeeper was concerned about Mayre's ability to climb the stairs to the second floor. He had told me on the phone that it was a short staircase, but did not mention the steepness. After looking at it, we agreed that it might not be the best option.

   But wait a minute, he had another idea. There was a new home up the road, one that he had built for a NYC man who came only a couple of times a month. Would we like to see the bedroom up there that we could use. It was on the second floor also, but had a chair lift which would alleviate that problem.

   But what a house! and what a view from our private balcony. We could see all the way to downtown Torrington from the top of our hill. And best of all, he would just charge us the rate on the room in the inn. A deal too good to pass up.

   The view was superb:

Sunrise from our deck

 Downtown Torrington after a thunder storm

   What could have been a bad situation, with maybe a cancelled reservation or looking for another place to stay for a couple of nights, turned out to be, as our kids might say "awesome".

   And, lest I forget, that shower during the thunderstorm, a huge shower with a picture window view of everything.

   An Amazing Turn of Events

   We were Blessed again.