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Sarah carried a carousel horse in the Sinterklaas parade on Saturday evening.  It was about 37 degrees and raining, but Sarah smiled throughout.  We watched most of the parade from our friend Guy’s office above Periwinkle’s on East Market Street, coming down to see our girls march by.  Sinterklaas, for the uninitiated, is the foremost […]

  We sprinted up to the farm Tuesday night to beat a snow storm.  The lights flickered, but we did not lose power — although we did suffer a hellacious Wednesday without Wifi. We got six or eight inches — just enough for a family snowshoe outing. Daisy loves the snow. Jen made a lovely apple […]

We stayed in New York Friday night so Sarah could trick-or-treat.  She was Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom. It was quite chilly in Rhinebeck, but that did not stop Daisy from going swimming.  She is very hardy. Afterward, Daisy unwound on Sarah’s beanbag chair. Most of our leaves have fallen, but some are holding on.

  Once again we had a rainy Saturday but a splendid Sunday.  On Saturday, Sarah had a riding lesson, in which she wrestled bravely with Cookie’s exceeding bounciness.  During the weekend, she offered her toil, sweat and tears (no blood, thank goodness) to her essays for her school applications. Because my comments on Sarah’s applications […]

This weekend, it looked like fall but felt like summer — beautiful flying weather for these geese. We had a visit from the Meng/Kufferaths, including little Lucy, 15 months old.  On Saturday we went apple picking. On Sunday we headed south on Route 9G and visited Val Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt’s home in Hyde Park.  On […]

On Saturday we had dinner at Bocuse, the fancy French restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. It’s run by earnest students, not quite ready for prime time, which adds a lot to its charm. After dinner, we had a tour of the kitchen, and Sarah was given a toque. On Sunday […]

We had a relaxing Labor Day weekend with Jen’s parents and with Erica and Geoff.  I let Erica win at Boggle because she is an English professor and it is important to her.  Here, Lew and Sarah relaxed on the back porch. On Sunday we met the Ostroys’ new dog Ringo, who is part Golden […]

We had a big crowd for the fair this year, with visits from my father and BJ, Paula and Jerry, and Julie and Stacey. Sarah befriended goats, sheep, and really any other livestock that seemed like it might be friendly. Very few of the pigs at the fair were awake. No visit to the fair is […]

We are freshly back from two weeks in the country.  Sarah spent both weeks at the Mill Street Loft arts camp in Red Hook, Jen pottered around her various gardens, and I plied my trade, remotely.  Here are Sarah and Jen enjoying an afternoon dip in the town pool. We had a visit from the […]

We spent most of the weekend in Maine, where Sarah will be at camp.  We stayed in Belfast, on the Penobscot River, with very nice views. We dropped Sarah off at camp on Saturday.  Each child was promptly issued a kitten. Sarah is participating in the Brumby program, a camp-within-a-camp that allows her to muck […]