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On Thursday, Sarah returned to New York from Hidden Valley Camp, and by Saturday she was safely installed in the pond with her mom.  It is great to have her back with us! Daisy, very pleased to be reunited with Sarah, barked encouragement. Other pond visitors included this Great Blue Heron. One is never too […]

I celebrated Father’s Day by washing the car, in dadlike fashion, while Daisy looked on supportively. Sarah celebrated by winning an armful of ribbons aboard Owen at Southlands.

The field looked spiffy after Del Wolcott mowed it for parking at the Landsman Kill Trail Association’s Spring Trail Ride, which took off from our farm on Sunday.  We left early for Sarah’s American Youth Dance Recital at Hunter College. Here is Sarah looking spiffy in a Colgate sweatshirt standing between two locust trees. Also […]

Jen returned from a writer’s retreat this morning, just in time for a Mother’s Day brunch at Le Petit Bistro.  This afternoon, Jen and Sarah met horses and riders visiting our trails, including Rich Contini, past president of the Landsman Kill Trail Association.  Sarah has in fact ridden this horse before. We had a chilly […]

Sarah woke up early Saturday morning and let us know that we had a pair of swans in the pond.  The duck between them doesn’t seem too happy about it, but they are quite picturesque and we are glad to have them.  They stuck around all weekend. I looked it up online, and swans, it […]

We don’t offer many pictures of the trip up to the farm, which is usually taken at night.  This weekend we sat out a Friday night storm and drove up in the morning. Our evergreens fared poorly in the high winds. Today we left blue skies competing with glowering clouds.  Between Sarah’s exams and spring […]

Here is Que (pronounced queue, or perhaps Q), a curmudgeonly quarter horse Sarah has been riding lately.  Sarah says he’s nice when being ridden but mean otherwise.

Somehow, improbably, Sarah turned 14 on Saturday.  She celebrated with dinner at Aroi (Rhinebeck’s Thai restaurant) with the Lawson twins, followed by a movie and a sleepover.  Jen made a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake for the occasion. Earlier on Saturday, Daisy and Ringo surmounted Burger Hill and mauled each other.

We spent an extremely chilly weekend at the farm.  I devoted most of Saturday morning to digging out our car.  We had below zero temperatures both mornings when we woke up.  While this was cold enough to justify canceling Sarah’s riding lesson on Saturday, it not dissuade our Daisy. Sarah had her braces removed on […]

We had a fantastic 10-day vacation at the farm for Christmas and New Years. We arrived the Friday before Christmas to find that the overgrown hedgerow between our fields had at last been removed.  You can actually see the old stone wall now. On Sunday it snowed, guaranteeing us a white Christmas and a happy […]