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Daisy met, and barked at, this Red-Eared Slider on the driveway Saturday afternoon. On Sunday I dropped off a third of a bale of hay at the Dutchess County Fair.  I have also entered bread and butter pickles; Jen has entered two kinds of jam (blackberry and black raspberry); and Sarah has entered two pictures.  Check […]

We just got back from two weeks in the country.  Sarah spent a week at pony camp at Southlands, and then a week at arts camp at the Mill Street Loft, which takes place in a church in Red Hook. Daisy had a great vacation.  She had her first swims in the pond, worked on […]

Sarah spent the week at pony camp at Southlands, where she made some good friends. We’ve had guests the last two weekends.  Here is Sarah last weekend with Marin, ten, who is also horse-focused. This weekend, Sarah was reunited with Will Harris, with whom she once toured Storm King. Daisy is thriving.  She is more […]

We saw this coyote on Saturday and Sunday, drinking at the pond.  She seems to have some pups somewhere – maybe in the hedgerow.  We are giving each other a wide berth. On Saturday our neighbor Richard Murray lent me his Gravely zero-turn mower, which has a 27 horsepower engine and a 60″ deck.  It’s […]

Sarah dusted off her bicycle for the first ride of the season. Here is one of our resident turkeys.  Soon we should have lots of poults (that is farm talk for baby turkeys). On Sunday, Sarah went for a trail ride in Walden N.Y. with her friend Michaela (not pictured).

We returned from a long absence (okay, two weekends) to find many signs of spring. At school, Sarah just finished a segment called “Wild Northeast,” in which each student selected a northeastern animal or plant (only two kids picked plants) and wrote a little book about it.  Sarah chose the Northern Spring Peeper (seen here and […]

We had enough snow on the ground so that Sarah could try out her snowshoes, which were a Christmas present last year. She and her mom made a snowman. While they were doing that, I found this horseshoe sticking out of the ground.  It looks very old. Here’s the completed snowman, with a jaunty birds’ […]

We had clammy weather at the farm this weekend. Sarah stayed indoors and made origami frogs.

The trees were in high color this weekend. Even the squirrels got into the swing of things. On Saturday, we visited the New York State Sheep & Wool Festival at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, where we saw a sheep herding exhibition. The sheepdogs were impressively well trained, but, frankly, so were the sheep. Sarah took […]

Storm clouds threatened today, but we didn’t get much rain.  We managed to squeeze in a walk. It’s always easier if you can keep the pebbles out of your boot. Sarah stuck with it, and found a friend. The sunshine makes everything look better.