Monday, July 04, 2016

The Big Weekend.

7-4-16 VERMONT: We got a big rain, 1.1 inches, on the first, the night Anna and Erin arrived for their Vermont weekend. There was lightning and thunder, wind and a rainbow making it a full Monty for a T-storm. The weather has since been sunny, windy and cool.

On the second we all, dogs included, did the Gile Mountain hike after the girls went to the Norwich Farmers Market and before one of them got a tat in WRJ. Dinner was at Middlebrook restaurant and rather disappointing. They headed back to the Metro area on the third. We ran chores that afternoon and are doing nothing on the Fourth.

New blooms: first hosta, Shasta daisy, first filipendula.


As the rain was passing to the east, we got a surprise.

Milkweed rampant in the pasture, smells sweet, has butterflies on the flowers, but no Monarch caterpillars on the leaves.

Barn swallow nesting in the barn has at least two chicks.

Taking a break from the demands of parenthood.

Anna and Erin were here for their second annual Fourth in Thetford.

We all did the Gile Mountain hike.

Mt. Ascutney on the horizon from the top of the tower atop Gile.

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