Emmett at the Fair.

8-27-26 VERMONT: The plan is for us to be back in NJ in less than a week, summer is almost over. We are still racking up memories for us and Emmett. We were at the Cornish Fair last weekend, and saw sheep, cows, chickens, pigs, some of us rode on the merry-go-round and on a car ride. Some of us had a bloomin’ onion and pulled pork. We saw a juggler, who

juggled knives, and balanced a step ladder on his chin. We drove across the historic Windsor-Cornish wooden, covered bridge to get there and back. 

Cedar Circle Farm Camp this week had all the camper/caterpillars sit on their favorite vegetables and then enter a chrysalis, where they metamorphosed into butterflies with wings.

Here we had the water line to the barn re-located in order to be able to shut off the water to the house, but not to the barn. The painters start on Monday doing the outside of the houses.

A doe visited yesterday during the day to eat apples, a few dozen, off the ground and picked off the trees. She was here for almost an hour. The great blue heron was here several times this week, and a kingfisher also stopped by.

We had a nice rain this week, delivering 0.75 inches, and maybe more today.

New blooms: pink turtlehead, red lobelia, poppy [re-bloom]. 

Every body likes apples.

Doe, apples, phlox, cattails.

Cornish Fair with Anna and Emmett.

Emmett and Dad on the carousel.

Driving lesson.

Cow grooming before the judging.

The Windsor-Cornish bridge spans the Connecticut River. It was built in 1866.

Two lane, timber construction bridge.

Emmett and me making Guacamole, a fav of his and mine.

Caterpillars occupying veggies.

Caterpillars in a chrysalis.

Caterpillars have metamorphosed to butterflies.

Poppy that I planted mid-season, after they usually bloom, surprised us by blooming now. The bee took it in stride.

Pink turtlehead blooms much later than the white ones.