Woodstock CT Café

Kelly and Mark Hamill’s Thimble Cottage Barn is a new retail establishment located at 815 Route 169 (just south of the Reynolds’ Christmas Barn) that opened six months ago.

The shop hours for the Thimble Cottage Barn will be 10 AM – 5 PM Tuesdays through Saturdays. Sundays’ hours are slightly reduced – 11 AM – 4 PM. The store’s phone number is (860) 928-9898. The Barn can be reserved for private parties at night.

I stopped in to get a peek at the inventory and was startled by the dazzling density of unique merchandise. When you walk into the store, you get the feeling that Christmas has arrived. Most of the inventory is sold on consignment primarily by local artists. Below shows you some of what you will see when you enter the store.
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A few months ago we featured Ray’s property on Perrin Road as an example of the “Future of Woodstock” without zoning.

We are happy to report that things have improved greatly thanks to a neighborly act by Ray. You may recall that Ray parked his semi trailer a few feet from his neighbor’s white picket fence so the neighbors would see 

“Robbins Beef Co. … Western Boxed Beef”

in big red letters when they looked out their windows on the north side of their house.

However, Ray has rectified the situation by painting the trailer sky blue.  No longer do the neighbors have to read about BOXED BEEF every day of their lives because now they have blue sky every day rain or shine. This will do a lot to avoid seasonal affected disorder no doubt. The only thing that Ray might add to this picture is a few birds preferably Canada Geese … but perhaps not Seagulls!