It’s only February 23 but temperatures are close to 10° C today and the sun is shining. The robins were out in full force yesterday — around 15 of them — grazing on the lawn. And today we watched a pair of nuthatches on the suet bird feeder outside the kitchen window. It feels like … Continue reading
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January 2015 — we got our skates on
Life got busy in the summer (5 weeks in England and France will do that) followed by back-to-school craziness in the fall, and I have completely neglected this blog. We also haven’t found anything too awesome lately to prompt a post. We have been staying out of the woods on account of the ticks. So many … Continue reading
A beaver chewed my stick
A few weeks ago we braved Westhaver beach just a few minutes southeast of town to stretch our winter-weary legs. We always hang out at the little outflow stream that connects a little lake with the ocean and we always find something interesting there. This time it was a stick covered in teeth marks. There … Continue reading
Elvers at the beach
On Sunday afternoon, we went to our local beach (Westhaver) to mess around with a water course. It’s what we like to do in our spare time. Actually, it’s what Matt and Lily like to do — we only have two beach shovels. They dam up a little stream (which flows from a nearby lake … Continue reading
A seal in the spring sunshine
I was making lunch on April 17 when I got a call from our bookkeeper who lives right on the ocean in Mahone Bay. She first asked if I had any kids at home with me (yup, always) and then said there was a seal on the little beach by her house. So I covered … Continue reading
witches whiskers 