| First Pres
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A beautiful, welcoming place. Where we wed.
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| Hayes & Schneider Properties
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Mitchell Schneider played a key role in our finding Carol Place. By a long shot, the best realtor
in Northern Virginia.
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| Cope Exterior and Deck
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Check their Photo Gallery for before and after pictures of our deck being refinished.
They did an amazing job!
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| De La Torre Landscaping
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One of the great joys of life at Carol Place has been having the de la Torre family as
friends and neighbors. Check the pictures of the young ones traipsing up and down the stone
steps at our family reunion
to see the pleasure their landscaping talents added to that mix.
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| A Cane Wood & Wicker Fixer
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We spent a couple of years looking for someone willing to take on the challenge of repairing
a Danish Cord chair. As Aliceann wrote after we found Randy Keeling and he returned the
chair to us: "We really appreciate your painstaking care... We had no idea our chair was special
when we first began the search for its repair, but now we know the design history.
Thank heaven for you and people like you who continue to do time consuming hand work
with great skill."
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| Animal Allies
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Every time Nibbles articulates and climbs onto a lap, every time Havelah pokes her
head through the railing to nuzzle someone coming up the stairs, we give thanks to
these good folks, especially Havelah's "Momma Connie."
A note we got recently from "Momma Connie" speaks volumes about what
is involved in rescue work:
Do you still receive the newsletter? If so you may have seen one of the
last rescues I did. It was a mom and her 5 kittens. One of the kittens
was born without eyes. "Braillie" is the most amazing animal I have
ever seen. She didn't know that she couldn't see, and did everything a
sighted kitten could do. Her favorite toy when she was at my house was
a "track ball." I showed her once how the ball spun around the track
and from that time on she would spin the ball and stop it with her paw
when it came back around. Then she actually started jumping across the
track and intercepting the ball before it came all the way around. She
learned the height of the sofa by "walking" her front legs down it, then
from that time on she jumped off just as though she could see the floor.
She learned how to go up and down steps by going down them the first
time by holding on to the carpet with her front claws and using her back
legs she "felt" for the next step. One time doing it that way and she
went up and down them normally. She was adopted by a wonderful woman
and her cat "Pandora" that teaches at Gallaudet. I recently spoke to
her and heard of "Braillie's" new accomplishments. She now is quite the
huntress and catches crickets that make their way into the apartment.
After catching them she proudly prances about showing off her catch.
She also has decided to drink from the tap and does so by placing her
paw in the stream of water and drinking above her paw. She is another
rescue that I would have easily kept (Havalah was one also) but in
fairness to her I let her go. She was perfectly content until a couple
of mine would get into it and it would frighten her so that she would go
running off and in her haste she would bump into things. Since I have
occasional encounters between a couple of mine I felt it was unfair to
keep her in that environment.
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| National Gallery of Art
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Stroll, online, through the collection. Linger in the remodeled sculpture galleries.
Sense why Aliceann got such pleasure out having the gallery as a client.
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| Karen and Doug Brown
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Treasured friends. Magnificent quilts displayed at a fun site.
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| Miniatures from the Attic
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Wonderful, talented people whose very special shop has closed. Its spirit remains with us.
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| The College of Wooster
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Has got to be doing something right if it produced Robin, Debbie, Jess, Eric, Tom, and Phil.
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| West Chester University
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Has got to be doing something right if it produced Jen, Andy, Sue, Paula, and Aliceann, and is
currently home for Jennie and John.
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| Barberton, Ohio
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Where Phil's family got their first tv.
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| Under The Ginko Tree Bed & Breakfast
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The house is a beautiful old Victorian with a wraparound porch; the rooms are large and attractively
decorated; but the greatest pleasure of a night at this Oak Park bed and breakfast
is the time spent lingering over breakfast in Gloria Onischuk's kitchen.
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