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… 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 […]

On Saturday night we attended the Sinterklaas Parade, the centerpiece of Rhinebeck’s annual crypto-Christian holiday celebration.   Some more images are below. Sunday was foggy.

We returned to the farm after a weekend away, for Halloween.  This blue jay seemed not at all put off by the 78 degree temperature on Saturday. While Sarah had soccer practice, Jen, Daisy and I were at the Red Hook dog run, in between the Rhinebeck Aerodrome and the soccer field.  We thought it […]

I was awakened Saturday morning by this pileated woodpecker — not by his hammering away at the maple tree outside our bedroom window, but rather by the sound of wood chips falling on the hood of the car parked below. It’s just as well we had an early start.  We harvested peaches from our nano-orchard.  […]