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  Jen spent a rainy day working on a jigsaw puzzle. It really came down!  Daisy was concerned when I stuck my head out the door to take this brief video. The rain left as quickly as it came, though, and as the sun set we had our customary beautiful light.

We had a lovely Christmas vacation at the farm, with highly variable weather (often unseasonably warm, as above, but it also snowed) and lots of visitors (Lew, Rinda, and Lewis, for Christmas; Erica and Geoff, for New Years; Lauren (Sarah’s babysitter-for-life), and her dog, Hamilton, for the weekend after New Year; and a drive-by Saturday lunch […]

We brought Daisy to the New York Military Academy, recently bankrupted alma mater of Donald Trump, so she could watch today’s soccer game between the Rhinebeck Ravens and the Cornwall Copa. I’ll let you all guess how the game went.

It is tomato season, which we’ve been celebrating with many colorful tomato salads.  From left to right are Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Pineapple Hawaiian, Aunt Ruby’s German Green, and Sungold, all from Jen’s garden. Our weekend was truncated — cut in half, more or less — as a result of an away game against the Cold […]

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.  […]

This was our last weekend while Sarah is away at camp.  We ate lunch in a restaurant, watched a matinee of an R-rated movie (Trainwreck), gardened, and practiced law.   We didn’t both do all of those things however. We had a rare sighting of Herman, the bachelor muskrat who plies our pond. Daisy struggled to […]

While Sarah is away at camp, we can do whatever we like.  And we do! In Jen’s case that means making immoderate quantities of jam.  Here she is wielding her new 11.5 quart Mauviel copper jam pot.  Everyone should have one. Daisy has the run of the pond. We are able to tour various Hudson […]

Sarah rejoined the Rhinebeck soccer team this weekend, and is now a Rhinebeck Fireball. She had a very promising practice on Saturday, in which she scored the above-pictured goal, before taking on Cornwall on Sunday at the Baptist Home field in Rhinebeck.  The Fireballs did not prevail, but they take on the Carmel Jaguars next […]

Although Spring is upon us, Sarah, remembering the long winter, stuck to her knitting as Daisy recharged. Outside, the daffodils are blooming, but it’s still early days for lilacs and most other spring flowers.

The Ring-necked Ducks are on the pond, signaling that our seemingly endless winter is in fact behind us — although there remains a bit of snow on the ground next to the barn.  Other reliable signs of the coming season include the Spring Peepers in the swamp, the Herons in their nests, and the Daisy in […]