Time and again, running a bed and breakfast shows you just how small the world is and how interconnected we all are. Our weekend guests from Bel Air Maryland have just left for home. We enjoyed their visit and look forward to their return visits with local family.
Their first morning at breakfast conversation rolled around to mentioning Orange Cat, DiCamello's Bakery and one of her friends from church who
also visited family in Lewiston nearly every summer, camped out by the lake and always brought home items from these two shops.
This brought to my mind one member of a group of sisters who had
enjoyed a Sister's Weekend with us at Sunny's Roost during our first year in business. I asked my
guest if the friend was one of six sisters, she said yes and I then
asked her if the friends name was Cathy So-N-So (I'll not use the last name
here as I do not have her permission to do so) and with a smile and a look of surprise, my guest said yes. I
explained that my very first guest was this woman's father. He
stayed with us before we had our health permit so I could not charge him but
I just couldn't turn this guest down. You see, he had raised his family
in Lewiston New York and now lived in Littleton Colorado. Littleton
Colorado was my home for 13 years and I was now living in Lewiston
New York. Not only that, but Russ was living less than two miles
from my home in Colorado and I was opening a bed and breakfast in
what had been the rectory and later the convent of the church he attended here in New York.
To finish out the circle of 6 degrees of separation, our
youngest son, the one they met while staying with us, is now married and lives in Virginia not 30 miles from
Cathy, and my guests.
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