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On Saturday Daisy had a doggy play-date to climb Burger Hill with Ringo. We stayed to watch the sun set over the Catskills. Later we saw the hunter/super moon.  A well-hyped moon. On Sunday, Sarah and Jen visited the Sheep & Wool festival at the Rhinebeck fairgrounds.  Sarah made friends with a lamb.  

On Saturday we went to the Dutchess County Fair.  It was Sarah’s second visit, having gone on Wednesday.  She would have been perfectly happy to attend all six days of the fair.  Sarah is a particular fan of the rides, including the above-pictured Hamster Dance. She also bungee-jumped. And, of course, she faced off against her dad […]

We celebrated Independence Day with a long weekend at the farm. While Jen gardened, I spent some quality time on the tractor. We watched Chuck and company build a new mud room porch. We marveled at the bizarre fungi growing on our trees. And we spotted a bunny or two.

I guess this is more appropriate for Mother’s Day than for Father’s Day, but this red-eared slider dug a hole for her eggs right in front of the door to Jen’s garden.

They say there’s always good fishing after a rain.  When Daisy and I arrived at the farm on Saturday morning (Jen and Sarah were on a Caedmon alumni canoe trip in Narrowsburg), we found it cold and wet: 55 degrees with a driving rain.  Eventually the skies cleared, and we saw this heron fishing for a […]

I’m not sure what this fox is carrying — maybe a suitcase?  [Update: the fox is carrying its cub.  Not a suitcase.] We ourselves traveled light this weekend.  Jen was in Boston, and Sarah and I returned to New York tonight so Sarah could attend a Brearley/Collegiate orchestra event Sunday morning.  There’s lots going on […]

On Saturday night we attended the Sinterklaas Parade, the centerpiece of Rhinebeck’s annual crypto-Christian holiday celebration.   Some more images are below. Sunday was foggy.

We had a splendid time at the 170th Dutchess County Fair. Sarah met a Doberman-colored bunny, while local matrons looked on in horror. Jen took to the air. I got the chance to bump Sarah. And vice versa. We triumphed in the culinary arts. (No, really, we killed it this year.) And, at the Miracle […]

We just finished a two-week vacation at the farm.  (Or, rather, I finished it.  Sarah and Jen continue to vacation.)  Here’s Sarah having a sip of water after hiking through Ferncliff Forest, just outside the village of Rhinebeck. It’s part of the old Astor estate.  Jen and I climbed the fire tower, which gives spectacular […]

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 […]