Almost June.

5-30-24 VERMONT: We’ve been busy getting ready for the summer. I’m still hobbling around with a cane so we needed help from Scott and from Hillary and Matt. Today is windy and cool, but the wind keeps the blackflies away. We had one inch of rain a few days ago, but things are still dry. 

The screens are in the outer doors. After the screens went in, the weather turned cooler, of course. All the benches are out in the yard. The grass was mowed. The ponds have been treated. The hummingbirds have been using the feeders. The turtle census is at least four. Judy’s pumpkin cart has another broken wheel, another repair job for me.

 

We had dinner at Cloudland Farm a few days ago, and at Murphy’s yesterday. Tonight we go to Laura-Beth’s with other classmates, and tomorrow we have dinner with Andy and Katy.

The game cams are out. There is a mountain lion in the neighborhood that lots of folks have seen, always briefly, and bears roaming the area.

New blooms: pagoda dogwood, Jacobs ladder, baneberry, double-file viburnum, false Solomons seal, lupin, iris, centaurea, blue star.

Centaurea, also called bachelor button, also comes in all blue.

Robin nest next to the house with three chicks about ready to get booted out of the nest.

Red Admiral butterfly, another high ranking insect.

Azaleas, there are four bushes and four colors, orange, salmon, pink, and magenta.

Four painted turtles, two and each end of the rock ledge.

Primrose by the lower pond, we have more extending up the brook to the upper pond. Some we planted, but many are volunteers. They look better every year.