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Last Saturday we watched the annual Sinterklaas parade from Guy Lawson’s office above Periwinkles in beautiful downtown Rhinebeck. To me, Sinterklaas looks and sounds a lot like Santa Claus, but apparently if you surround this imagery with enough woo-woo puppetry it falls on the right side of the First Amendment.

I put up a trail camera in the woods, but the only images I captured were of these two sourpuss hikers.

While Sarah collects armloads of horseback riding ribbons — including, I am told, a championship in the pleasure division (whatever that may be) — and Jen collects bushels of apples, I am stuck in New York collecting comments from opposing counsel. But here are some drones-eye view pictures I received from the Landsman Kill Trail […]

Daylight savings time is one of the few times of the year when I see the sun rise.  I was up because Daisy, who has zero interest in daylight savings time, was barking for her breakfast.

We spent Friday night in New York to see a play (Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties”), and drove up to the farm Saturday morning in time for Sarah’s riding lesson.  We had a lovely sunset Saturday evening, as we made rigatoni in the stand mixer. Today, as April entered its second week, it snowed just a little […]

With apologies to my tiny public, here’s all I could get from the PondCam.  We’re in New York, getting ready for a blizzard for Sarah’s 11th birthday.

We had a brief, chilly weekend at the farm.  On Friday, Sarah had a birthday sleepover at her friend Marin’s house in Hastings.  We arrived at the farm Saturday morning to find that very little snow had melted.  Daisy, recovering from a Wednesday spaying, had to stay mostly indoors, even though she seemed to feel […]

The sun is setting on my career as a photographer — although we are on vacation, we forgot the camera.  Thank goodness for the iPhone.

We had a persistently foggy weekend, in a non-metaphorical sense.

Lew and Rinda visited this weekend.  To celebrate, we pressed Sarah’s wagon into service for a small cocktail party in Jen’s secret garden. The garden itself is looking great.  Here is one of the butterfly bushes that Jen planted in the spring. Everyone had a good time. Sarah got her grandfather to play Quirkle with […]