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It is tomato season, which we’ve been celebrating with many colorful tomato salads.  From left to right are Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Pineapple Hawaiian, Aunt Ruby’s German Green, and Sungold, all from Jen’s garden. Our weekend was truncated — cut in half, more or less — as a result of an away game against the Cold […]

I was awakened Saturday morning by this pileated woodpecker — not by his hammering away at the maple tree outside our bedroom window, but rather by the sound of wood chips falling on the hood of the car parked below. It’s just as well we had an early start.  We harvested peaches from our nano-orchard.  […]

This was our last weekend while Sarah is away at camp.  We ate lunch in a restaurant, watched a matinee of an R-rated movie (Trainwreck), gardened, and practiced law.   We didn’t both do all of those things however. We had a rare sighting of Herman, the bachelor muskrat who plies our pond. Daisy struggled to […]

While Sarah is away at camp, we can do whatever we like.  And we do! In Jen’s case that means making immoderate quantities of jam.  Here she is wielding her new 11.5 quart Mauviel copper jam pot.  Everyone should have one. Daisy has the run of the pond. We are able to tour various Hudson […]

Sarah rejoined the Rhinebeck soccer team this weekend, and is now a Rhinebeck Fireball. She had a very promising practice on Saturday, in which she scored the above-pictured goal, before taking on Cornwall on Sunday at the Baptist Home field in Rhinebeck.  The Fireballs did not prevail, but they take on the Carmel Jaguars next […]

Although Spring is upon us, Sarah, remembering the long winter, stuck to her knitting as Daisy recharged. Outside, the daffodils are blooming, but it’s still early days for lilacs and most other spring flowers.

The Ring-necked Ducks are on the pond, signaling that our seemingly endless winter is in fact behind us — although there remains a bit of snow on the ground next to the barn.  Other reliable signs of the coming season include the Spring Peepers in the swamp, the Herons in their nests, and the Daisy in […]

Daisy, fresh from her victory Saturday evening over a cheese plate, took on a stinkbug today in a fireside bout.  The bug, just above Daisy’s right paw, battled to a draw.

Sarah and her friend Michaela braved the low-twenties temperature to go sledding on our hill. Daisy waited patiently for them to return.

The sun finally peeked out this afternoon at the end of a sleety MLK weekend. We made lots of soup: White Bean on Saturday and French Onion today.  Daisy was the happy beneficiary of two bones.