welcome to the farm
Nov 25 2018
Our Thanksgiving this year included Rinda, Lew, Julie, Stacey, and the Perkins family, four visiting Australians celebrating their first Thanksgiving. We had an 18-pound turkey from Salt Point, together with pecan stuffing, green beans with slivered almonds, creamed onions, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, strawberry jello mold, three kinds of cranberry sauce, and four pies. We […]
Nov 18 2018
Sarah’s babysitter-for-life Lauren Ballback, fresh from passing the Virginia bar examination, visited this weekend. She brought her dog, Hamilton, a very good boy who did not dig any holes during this visit. Daisy enjoyed his company. Today, all of us — except for Hamilton and Daisy — attended the Hudson Valley Hunter Jumper Association annual […]
Nov 11 2018
We seem to have a number of foxes in the neighborhood (or at least two). Here’s one in the front yard. Foxes are nice to see, but I hadn’t seen our large flock of wild turkeys in a while. I was relieved to see that, for now, they seem to be coexisting with the foxes […]
Nov 04 2018
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.