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Jen enjoyed her traditional Mother’s Day breakfast in bed. We took Daisy for a walk in the woods and found this mother of seven plying the swamp. After years of searching, certain they were beneath our noses, we found morels in the woods.  They say that once you find one, you’ll see them everywhere.  That’s […]

It is nearly spring, so we have Ring-necked Ducks on the pond.  But because we have been away for several weeks, we also have Canada geese.  Neither we nor the ducks are pleased. They are, if not evil incarnate, untidy nuisances. Jen tried to run them off, but they just head for the pond. The […]

We had a long weekend for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but spent half of it in New York so that Sarah could attend a Bat Mitzvah and we could attend The Book of Mormon. We drove up Sunday morning to find an icy, but not frozen, pond. I hate these birds deeply (since one […]

… is absolutely destroying our porch. Grrr.

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 […]

They say there’s always good fishing after a rain.  When Daisy and I arrived at the farm on Saturday morning (Jen and Sarah were on a Caedmon alumni canoe trip in Narrowsburg), we found it cold and wet: 55 degrees with a driving rain.  Eventually the skies cleared, and we saw this heron fishing for a […]

Mothers Day was celebrated across the farm, including, we assume, in this nest just outside our front door. Jen enjoyed her customary breakfast in bed, this year featuring a spinach, cheddar and ramp omelet.  Sarah and I got her a gift certificate at the Hudson Valley Seed Bank. But an even greater gift arrived in […]

Sarah kept smiling through her first weekend with braces. It was hard to remain altogether cheerful during today’s 8-1 drubbing by the Cornwall Copa.  However, we were all smiles when a throw-in by Sarah led to the Ravens’ only goal, near the end of the second half. Our new Star Magnolia is more of a Cameo Magnolia […]

We returned to the farm, after three weeks away for spring break, to find rather unspringlike weather.   Sarah’s soccer practice was canceled on Saturday because it was too cold.  On Sunday, it warmed up a bit (into the mid-thirties), and we had this visitor to the pond: a rather large blue heron. He was a bit […]

The good news is that spring must be around the corner.  Here is as early a pair of mallards as we’ve seen.  The bad news, of course, is that they are being menaced by Canada geese, which are also back in town.  Daisy has been keeping the geese in check. On Saturday, Sarah participated in a Cupcake Wars-themed birthday party […]