May

Here are 2 officers from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. What a performance they had this year! The play takes up most of our time during the end of April and then the shows April 30-May4. All 5 shows went off very well and we celebrated another good year in the Young People's Stage Company.


Here is King having his "close up". He is a freckled guy...it's called a flea bitten grey. We're doing really well and I've been out riding now that the ground is ready. Very happy. We are very happy with him!


Here is a promise of berries to come. A wild bee working away at the wild blueberry bushes in our yard. Won't it be yummy!
My daily walking partner out on our jaunt. Tide is still my constant companion--a shadow really.
Another sure sign of spring's full return is this frog, sunning himself on a rock near our stone bridge. Ahhh. Spring!

~Rachel

Portsmouth caching

Hey! Kids! Wait up. You would think that they had never seen bare ground before. Okay. Well, they had not seen bare ground for 4 1/2 months. Portsmouth did not get the snow load that we did. Several of their storms were rain instead of snow. John would drive off to work each day in this springtime bliss and come home to the snowbanks and winter weather we were stuck in. We had had it! Into the cars with the kids and out to find a cache along this "exercise" trail.

Do you like the new look? I think he's handsome. He's a keeper for sure.



And there are 3 more handsome guys too. What a fun family day.

~Rachel

April

Okay, so you know what it's like when you have put something off for so long that you feel like it's just to hard to get going again. Yeah.

Sort of like this blog.

Well...

I'm just going to get started and see what happens!

I don't remember much about April anymore. It seems that we started with feet of snow and lots of ice chopping and outdoor work. But some interesting things were going on inside too. Here is Ben knitting and Brian's Ukranian Egg for Easter.

Okay. So, I've started. Maybe I've got another one to do today too.

~Rachel