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Our summer vacation was not entirely under blue skies. On the bright side, we had our annual visit by John Harris and his boys, with whom I went hiking in the Catskills.  As you can see, they were awed by Kaaterskill Falls, the highest waterfall in New York — yes, even taller than Niagara Falls. […]

Daisy, battling an ear infection, has been off her feed. Picking up the slack, this diabolically industrious chipmunk devoured not yet ripe blackberries for which Jen had other plans. Jen was consoled by her stargazer lilies, blooming in front of the house. While Sarah was at the town pool, we took a walk and were […]

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 […]

We had a lazy Sunday in Rhinebeck, watching a thunderstorm from the back porch, after a busy Saturday in New York in which we saw Sarah off to her last summer at Hidden Valley Camp.

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 […]

Today we watched the Memorial Day parade, which each year marches out of a Norman Rockwell picture and makes a right on East Market Street.  Jen’s parents and sister visited for the weekend. Jen and Lew chatted on Guy and Maya’s porch. There seem to be more fire trucks every year. We had drinks on […]

We are patiently waiting for spring.  It’s been cold and wet, like Daisy’s nose. We found this wild turkey egg while looking, without success, for morels in the woods.  Maybe next weekend!

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 […]

I suppose it’s a sign of the coming spring, but I was not happy to find two Canada geese on the pond Saturday.  For their part, they probably weren’t too happy about the curling and hockey results at the Olympics. Daisy relaxed after to helping to shoo the geese.

We attended the Dutchess C0unty Fair on Saturday — my first and only visit this year; Sarah’s fifth.  Jen won a blue ribbon for her Rhu-Berry jam.  She also took two second place ribbons, including, yet again, a grudging one for her peach-lemon marmalade with no first place ribbon given.  The judges — whom Jen […]