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Daisy has been enjoying the clement fall weather, asking to be let outside at least every twenty minutes or so. She is ever vigilant.

The kitchen was abuzz for our weekend visitors, Julie, Stacey, and babysitter-for-life Lauren Ballback. Between meals, Jen managed to put up quite a few jars of marmalade. Stacey lent her customary good cheer. Lauren stopped overnight on her drive from Virginia to Maine. While here, she and Sarah made approximately 30,000 calories worth of granola. […]

Daisy enjoyed what has become an unusual event: a foot of snow. She remains pretty energetic at ten years old.

Daisy awaits our return from a walk.

Daisy was thrilled to have long walks both Saturday and Sunday. She was patient while Jen and I gathered blackberries, she found a deer carcass on both walks, and today she entered every available body of water, no matter how shallow or fetid. Sarah also spent the weekend in the field, attending HITS Saugerties, the […]

Mid-summer brings John Harris and his boys, seen here with their dog Milo traversing the Fallsburg Creek while hunting for wineberries. The berries were pressed into service — literally — in wineberry-lemon sorbet. On Sunday we took advantage of the spectacular weather to take a 10-mile hike to the top of Overlook Mountain and then […]

This weekend we had a visit from babysitter emeritus Lauren Ballback, who stopped with her dog Hamilton on her way from Brooklyn to Maine. Jen gave Lauren a tour of the secret garden, which is looking quite spiffy these days. It was great to see Lauren with Sarah again. Daisy also enjoyed visiting with Hamilton. […]

We braved the smoke from Canadian wildfires to attend a barbecue at the Kaimal/Lawson’s Friday night. The Ostroys and the Perkins also attended, and everyone brought their daughters and dogs. It was nice to see the collegiate set assembled, and all the dogs behaved tolerably well. Daisy knocked over a couple of items (a soda […]

Our cultivated fruit production over the years has been modest, consisting mostly of peaches from the two trees we gave Jen for Mother’s Day in 2012, one of which gave up the ghost a couple of years ago. The two Macoun apple trees we planted have never produced any apples because they are the same […]

We had a happy Christmas with Jen’s folks. Sarah’s stocking was brimming, including with this new hat. Sarah spent many late nights crocheting to create this beautiful blanket for her grandparents. Jen was a bit less certain about my gift for her, a new scythe, with both grass and brush blades.