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Memorial Weekend

We did a lot of home projects over our holiday weekend.  Friday I mowed all our lawns while Kathryn and Eric went shopping.  Saturday we went to the family picnic at Mark & Danielle’s new home.  It was windy, but the temperatures were moderate – especially when the sun was out.  We played boccie, extreme [...]

Trillium Trail

Today we worked at making a short, new, trail through our 40 acre woods. We wanted to be able to walk along the stream bed as it offers a great place to explore and discover. The stream bed was clogged with limbs from past logging and old junk. We found old metal cans, [...]

Painter – The Eastern Painted Turtle

Last week Barb and Joe found a Eastern Painted Turtle hatchling – probably only 2-3 days old.   He was tiny and likely destined as a food source.  They asked Eric to raise the turtle until he was a little older and had a better chance at survival.  Eric named the turtle Painter and after a [...]

Counting to 100

A few weeks ago Eric mastered counting to 100.  It is a process that, once requested, can not be shut off mid-stream.  My mom asked him to count to 100 and when Eric reached the 60s she was impressed enough and decided tried to abort the process – without success.

Recently Eric went for his kindergarten [...]

Canoeing in the rain

Have you ever gone on a camping trip that looked like a disaster from the start? Kathryn and I and were invited by our friend Rich Roman to go canoe camping on Stillwater Reservoir in the Adirondack Park.  It was sprinkling lightly as we loaded our VW Rabbit with our canoe, dog and camping [...]

Take a walk with us

We took an early morning walk around our property Sunday morning starting at the garden. We have three rows of peas coming up. This weekend I put up hog panel fence for the to climb and mulched between the rows with horse manure.

Below the garden there were two Canada geese swimming in my [...]

Delaware River Canoe Trip

We got back from our canoe trip Sunday noon. We drove to Port Jervis on Thursday (5 hours), dropped off our canoes and stuff and shuttled the van to the take-out point at a campground in Portland, NJ ~50 miles away. Steve took a taxi back to Port Jervis.  It was cool and windy while [...]