welcome to the farm
Aug 27 2017
We attended the Dutchess C0unty Fair on Saturday — my first and only visit this year; Sarah’s fifth. Jen won a blue ribbon for her Rhu-Berry jam. She also took two second place ribbons, including, yet again, a grudging one for her peach-lemon marmalade with no first place ribbon given. The judges — whom Jen […]
Aug 20 2017
Our Feverfew is enjoying a moment in the late summer garden. Also enjoying a moment: our rhubarb, as well as Jen, whose birthday was Friday. She celebrated (after a nice birthday supper at Le Petit Bistro) by combining the rhubarb with blackberries to make Rhu-Berry jam. Jen entered that, together with four other jams, in […]
Aug 13 2017
This is not our entire 2017 peach crop, but it is a majority of it. Still, they’re pretty nice looking!
Aug 07 2017
We just wrapped up a two-week vacation in which we returned to our roots. Sarah returned to riding, aboard Joanie (the Pony) at Southlands. John Harris returned, with his boys, for a mid-summer visit. Sarah returned to the stage, at the Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center’s dance camp. Jen returned to the pond. And I returned […]