We spent the weekend at Stephanie Piro's and John Nolan's house in Farmington, New Hampshire. It's in "the boonies," as newspaper editor husband John has written. It sure is a nice house, and you can see how green it is in NH. John has extensive gardens around the place.

Upon arrival, Spacey (one of their 3 cats) does this squirmy dance of joy in the driveway.

Some of John's flowers greet you on the deck. There is also a large vegetable garden

Stephanie is one of King Features' SIX CHIX. This photo is from the launch of the strip, showing each female cartoonist wearing a shirt with the day of the week that their work appears in the paper.

In the hallway there are some framed original strips.

Up the stairs are originals from Stephanie's other syndicated panel, FAIR GAME.

Cats of distinction always dine upon Stephanie's placemats. Go to her site for purchase details! We use them too! (Er, I mean our cats do.)

Above are the tools that she uses to create her comics.

And here she is, working on a SIX CHIX strip.

Board in lap, with her favorite pen. She let me use it once. But I had to ask a couple times.

You can see that Stephanie does not pencil!

Well, it's time to go, as John reminds me with a squirt of the hose!

I'm wet, but Stephanie takes it in stride. Better go before John attacks again!