Archive for April, 2025

Apr 21 2025

Cherry Blossoms

Published by under Jen,Pond,Sarah,Trees

Jen stopped to smell the cherry blossoms on a crisp Easter Sunday afternoon. In less happy tree news, we had to take down the big maple in front of the sun porch. We’ll need to plant a replacement, perhaps a bit farther from the house. We spent Saturday in Saratoga, where Sarah rowed in the […]

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Apr 06 2025

Spring Cleaning

Published by under Barn,Birds,Jen

Today was our annual sweeping of the barn, in which the droppings of a generation of barn swallows and pigeons are removed to make way for this year’s crop. The barn swallows should arrive any day. The pigeons never left.

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