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After nearly a month away, we returned to the farm to find plenty of fresh powder for sledding and snowball fights. Sarah hosted the Lawson twins for winter sports and hot cocoa. Here is Sarah, all bundled up.  We had to return early Sunday to avoid another 7″-12″ of snow.

We rode out the end of the year at the farm.  While we didn’t have a white Christmas, the holiday was bookended by dustings that produced a little more snow than advertised.  Pictured is “less than an inch.” We had a fine tree with many presents beneath it. Sarah performed her customary ceremonial duties as […]

We cooked up a storm for Thanksgiving.  Here is Jen making three pies simultaneously. We got a monster turkey from Frank Vosburgh at Kesicke Farm — 25.75 pounds.  It was the smallest one he had. Julie and Stacey came in uniform. Sarah danced whenever not organizing or playing board games. Her grandfather looked on bemusedly.

We had fine weather today for a walk up Burger Hill. Daisy and Ringo, who were married last year in an informal ceremony officiated by Sarah and her friend Sophie, came along for the walk. Jen harvested our two pumpkins, just in time for Halloween.

On Saturday Daisy had a doggy play-date to climb Burger Hill with Ringo. We stayed to watch the sun set over the Catskills. Later we saw the hunter/super moon.  A well-hyped moon. On Sunday, Sarah and Jen visited the Sheep & Wool festival at the Rhinebeck fairgrounds.  Sarah made friends with a lamb.  

Jen’s garden is producing more tomatoes than we can comfortably eat, but we are doing our best to keep up, with tomato salads, tomato tarts, BLTs, bagels with cream cheese and tomatoes — you name it.  Jen is even working on a tomato jam. We had a bat mitzvah-shortened weekend in the country, but on […]

We had many threatening clouds but ultimately a beautiful weekend. Jen’s gardens are at maximum production.  We have more flowers than vases, and more tomatoes than we can eat. Sarah’s friend from school, Ainsley, spent the weekend with us.  On Sunday, Sarah led a jam tasting. Now she has her first full week of seventh […]

We had beautiful weather for Labor Day weekend at the farm. Jen’s parents and sister visited. We ate many tomato salads. Sarah won lots of points playing Boggle against her aunt, the English professor. And Daisy did what Daisy does best.

On Saturday we went to the Dutchess County Fair.  It was Sarah’s second visit, having gone on Wednesday.  She would have been perfectly happy to attend all six days of the fair.  Sarah is a particular fan of the rides, including the above-pictured Hamster Dance. She also bungee-jumped. And, of course, she faced off against her dad […]

We had a somewhat more restful vacation last week.  It started with a huge thunderstorm Saturday night, which knocked out power for eleven hours and also knocked down Jen’s rhubarb patch. Jen rebounded by making rhu-berry jam.  She held a tasting to select entries for the Dutchess County Fair. We climbed the Stissing Mountain fire tower. Even […]