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We rode out the end of the year at the farm.  While we didn’t have a white Christmas, the holiday was bookended by dustings that produced a little more snow than advertised.  Pictured is “less than an inch.” We had a fine tree with many presents beneath it. Sarah performed her customary ceremonial duties as […]

Daisy is patiently waiting for Thanksgiving, when she hopes many items will fall off the dining table. We had a surprise dusting of snow overnight.  We hope it won’t interfere with anyone’s holiday travel plans!

We had fine weather today for a walk up Burger Hill. Daisy and Ringo, who were married last year in an informal ceremony officiated by Sarah and her friend Sophie, came along for the walk. Jen harvested our two pumpkins, just in time for Halloween.

On Saturday Daisy had a doggy play-date to climb Burger Hill with Ringo. We stayed to watch the sun set over the Catskills. Later we saw the hunter/super moon.  A well-hyped moon. On Sunday, Sarah and Jen visited the Sheep & Wool festival at the Rhinebeck fairgrounds.  Sarah made friends with a lamb.  

Jen grew this teeny weeny melon in her garden.  Now we are in a race against time — or, rather, against the first frost, which thank goodness is not forecast to arrive this week. Daisy pursues the fall sports.

We had beautiful weather for Labor Day weekend at the farm. Jen’s parents and sister visited. We ate many tomato salads. Sarah won lots of points playing Boggle against her aunt, the English professor. And Daisy did what Daisy does best.

We spent most of Saturday at Harriman State Park cheering on Jen as she took on the swim portion of a relay triathlon.  After Jen braved the frigid waters of Lake Welch for a half-mile swim, her team turned in strong biking and running performances, finishing second among the relay teams. Sunday’s athletic endeavors were […]

New York City may have had a record-breaking blizzard on Saturday, but not a single snowflake fell on the farm.  Sarah had five friends over to celebrate her birthday.  Pasta, cake, movies, and air hockey for all. Daisy offered to drive us home on Sunday. We arrived home early enough so that Sarah could go […]

  Jen spent a rainy day working on a jigsaw puzzle. It really came down!  Daisy was concerned when I stuck my head out the door to take this brief video. The rain left as quickly as it came, though, and as the sun set we had our customary beautiful light.

We had a lovely Christmas vacation at the farm, with highly variable weather (often unseasonably warm, as above, but it also snowed) and lots of visitors (Lew, Rinda, and Lewis, for Christmas; Erica and Geoff, for New Years; Lauren (Sarah’s babysitter-for-life), and her dog, Hamilton, for the weekend after New Year; and a drive-by Saturday lunch […]