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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 […]

As the sun set on the longest day of the year, we decided that it was so nice that we would stay Sunday night and head back to New York Monday morning. On Sunday, the Ostroys had a pool party so all Sophie could see all her friends before heading off to camp for a […]

Jen and Sarah had simultaneous riding lessons on Saturday.  I watched with Sarah’s friend Marin, who visited for the weekend – they’ll be bunkmates at Hidden Valley Camp in just a couple of weeks. In the afternoon, they planned a kayak trip, only to find a garter snake coiled in the cup holder, as well as […]

It is springtime, and everything is coming into bloom. Sarah has just two more weeks of school. On Sunday, Jen and Sarah continued their mother-daughter riding lessons.  Sarah had Cookie. Jen had Hero (the Magic Horse™). The barn swallows kept busy. This heron, rather impressively, caught a large-mouth bass in the pond. He tucked it […]

We capped off a long weekend by attending the Memorial Day Parade, something Rhinebeck does especially well.  Here are some images from the parade. Sarah watched from under her fine new hat. Jen’s parents visited for the weekend, as did Erica and Geoff.  We celebrated the publication of Erica’s first book, Intimacy and Family in […]

Jen and Sarah took riding lessons together Saturday morning at Southlands.   Susie taught Jen to ride Hero, whom I heard described as the Magic Horse. Susie was amazed that Jen had only one riding lesson since she was Sarah’s age. Sarah had a lesson with Allison on Rocky, the sweet yet balky pony. Here they are […]

In the city people wonder why they never see baby pigeons; in the country it’s the same with squirrels.  In both places the reason is the same: it’s because they grow quickly.  Here, though, is an unmistakably young squirrel. On Saturday we had a sun shower.  Everything is greening up nicely. Here is one of […]