John planned our Sunday. He had an inspiration. He called Peter and Ame, parents of Eli’s pal Will. They have a sheep farm with 80 newborn lambs. Hannah was here for the weekend and she…
Schools got cancelled last week for mud. Half of Vermont lives on a dirt road and the buses just couldn’t get through after three long days of pounding rain. The snow runs off the sides…
I love spring. It is like the early morning of summer. Everything seems possible. We are at the tippy tippy beginning up here. There will surely be at least a little more snow, but a…
A couple of days ago I declared that winter was over. I am sticking to it.Yesterday we began daylight savings time and what a glorious beginning it was. It got up to 50 degrees here…
I just heard Garrison Keillor say on the radio that the beauty of May is that the whole country is on the same page. He’s right. In a few weeks our friends in the South…
It’s May. The lilacs are barely in bud. The birds are all building their nests. The noisy female robins, are squawking and rejecting various bits that their husbands bring back for the nest. String is…
April is polka dotted in Vermont. The mountains are just touched all over with wee little green buds, and from a distance it surely looks like a million pale green polka dots. Adding to the…
