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We took Friday off.  Sarah dyed some eggs, and on Saturday we brought them back to New York to celebrate Passover.  Today we had an Easter egg hunt in Central Park.

We woke up Saturday morning to find about an inch of snow, which lasted most of the day. We’d been away for two weeks, so it was a bit disappointing to find all the early spring flowers — including these hyacinths — blanketed by snow. Sarah wisely spent most of the day indoors. By Sunday, […]

A lone Ring-necked Duck steamed across the pond Saturday evening, letting us know that spring is on the way. The robins have been around since the beginning of February — about a month earlier than usual. These snowdrops grew underneath the bench in front of the cottage.  Whenever we move the bench, we find some […]

We were stuck in NY this weekend.  On Saturday I took Sarah to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  She asked whether this woman was looking at her cell phone.

We had another unseasonably warm weekend, but some of us still chose to pursue the pleasures found indoors.

We spent a lazy Sunday morning reading.  Jen is getting ahead of Sarah by reading Harry Potter IV, while Sarah is working her way through a series she got at the Starr Library book sale.

Sarah went skiing for the first time today, at Catamount.  She was great at it!

Our living room is becoming a simulacrum of the farm.  We got the barn last weekend at George Cole’s auction house, and added six Breyer horses from eBay as an early birthday present for Sarah. Here’s the real thing.

Spare parts arrived for the remote-controlled helicopter (my x-mas gift from Jen’s mother), so we put it back together and took it for a spin.  Sarah was skeptical that it would fly — but it did.  Although, once again, I sent it into a tree.  No harm done. On Saturday it was 61 degrees, which would […]

We arrived at the farm for our Christmas vacation and found a deranged squirrel in the family room, hopping from bookshelf to bookshelf.  In the process, he knocked my ukulele to the ground, destroying it.  The squirrel had gotten in through the chimney in the mud room.  We chased him out the front door. Other […]