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After a long hiatus we have spent the last week here at the farm — and indeed we are stuck here indefinitely — as a result of COVID-19. We have all been strongly encouraged to “work” from “home” and I am doing my best to comply. Still there are encouraging signs of spring all around, […]

We have been stuck in New York for some while, but it’s nice to be able to see a beautiful moonlit evening on the PondCam®️.

Here’s an unusual view of the farm, from Wolcott Drive, where we went walking today.

We started the weekend with foggy skies and greenish fields, but a lovely snowfall began soon after we arrived Saturday. We responded, sensibly, by building a fire and making cassoulet.

With Jen away in Concord, Massachusetts, for board meetings, Sarah and I sprinted up to Rhinebeck Friday night after Sarah’s evening dance lessons. We arrived in time to allow several hours of sleep before Sarah’s 6:00 a.m. arrival at Southlands to prepare for her horse show. I went back to bed, but I was reliably […]

Attentive viewers of rhinebeckfarm.com may have noticed that the PondCam™ has not been working lately. Good news: you can find a new, improved PondCam on its eponymous page. It’s amazing how technology advances, and equally amazing that the only way I could capture the image above was by taking a screen shot of a video […]

It was icy cold on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but we had a had a warm weekend with a visit from David Upson and his family. Many kitchen gadgets were pressed into service: we made Chicken Adobe in the somehow back-from-the-dead Instant Pot, a perfect 136 degree beef tenderloin courtesy of the sous vide […]

If it remains as cold as it was this weekend, and it doesn’t snow, we’ll have a rare chance to skate on the pond next weekend. In the meantime, we kept warm on Saturday with lasagna (veggie) and movie (Little Miss Sunshine) night.

On Saturday we had Sue and Michaela Mermelstein over for dinner.  I sneaked out to capture this image of the moon shimmering on the pond.

The phragmites surrounding the pond are in perfect health as they prepare for winter. We seem to be bypassing autumn entirely: on Saturday we could see ice forming on the pond.  We put the garden to bed, installed storm windows, stacked firewood, and generally tried to be as ready as the phragmites.