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| Naish started 4th grade at the elementary school. He started on the boys travel soccer team in mid-August so he had some buddies going in but made a bunch of new friends by the first afternoon. |
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| Jack started 7th grade at the Middle School. He's taking Latin and joining the jazz band. We rented the monster-sized string bass on Sunday. That'll be a joy to freight to and from school! |
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| My Mom and Tom came back from the Cape with us to the farm. Tom helped revive the ancient "Bosnian Tractor" so we could get it out of the garage and store it under the barn. Who needs a monster truck rally when you can have your own tractor pull. |
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| New Hampshire Lobster feast. Yum! |
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Love that smile. And Bodhi's patience. |
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| Naish joined the ranks of the Woods Hole Scrabble pros this year. He also caught crabs, explored the jetty, helped with the lemonade stand, and played with the Meigs girls down the street. |
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| When the weather cooperated (which was most of the holiday) Jack worked diligently on a daily lemonade stand in front of Comtuit. (Thanks, Jeff!) He also got some summer reading in. |
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Art was away much of the vacation visiting and caring for his mother who was hospitalized for pneumonia. We are so glad she is making a remarkable recovery. Art DID get a few windsurfing sessions. |
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| Bodhi loved Woods Hole and all our visitors but he's not thrilled about the water. |
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I brought flowers back from a quick trip home for Naish's soccer practice in Stratham. As predicted, all the flowers came in the week we left for the Cape. But we came home to an astonishing flower garden. |
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| Can't wait to give this guy a BIG hug! |
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| Carnival Day at Chewonki. Photos from the camp web-site. |
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| See how big and fat these monster munchers are next to Jack's hand. |
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| Bob requested a photo of our Tomato Hornworms. I had to incapacitate two today. |
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| This sunflower is called "Peach Passion." It's a keeper for cut flowers. |
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| I'm gonna have to learn to pickle the cukes soon! |
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| Jack and I taste-tested the mini-watermelons. A few more weeks. |
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| "Provider" beans. |
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| Jack's Jalapeno peppers. He bought the seedling at the Potomac School "Farm Market" in May. |
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| Three buckets of flowers today! Snapdragons are today's favorite. |
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| Naish and friends! |
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| Looks like Naish is gaining some fire-making skills |
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| One more week of camp. Looks like he's having a blast, but I can't wait to see him. |
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| Honing the plow |
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| Jack the Mower. |
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| Art the Plowman. (We are reclaiming this old garden dump site to create a shaded picnic area). |
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| Jack and Art built a new wood-hauling cart. (The old one had an unfortunate encounter with a certain new tractor). |
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| All done and ready to haul! |
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| Sorry, but I can't resist .... more flowers! |
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| Art and Naish planted this garlic in November 2009. We harvested over a 100 heads which are hanging in the "curing" shed. This variety is organic "Purple Wild." Seed garlic was from the Cox family at Tuckaway Farm in Lee, NH. |
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| Genovese Basil started from seed in D.C. in April. |
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| Pesto Pasta Eating! |
