Emmett in Wonderland.

8-20-26 VERMONT: It’s still beautiful, but the days are getting shorter, the nights are cooler, and the garden is getting unruly. We had a half inch of rain, delivered in two aliquots, we need more, of course, but fall will deliver it. 

The Oil Boys were here to install the new furnace in the old house basement. The painters arrive next Monday to start painting the exteriors the houses. I have taken almost all the screens out for the painting. 

Emmett continues to discover Vermont. He’s been to another farm camp, bird lesson from VINS, pasture walks, apple feedings for the horses, tractor tryouts, seeing a garter snake and a green frog yesterday, a robin’s nest, and the discovery of huge caterpillars on one of the tomato plants. It turns out that it’s a Tobacco Hornworm rather than a Tomato Hornworm based on its having a red horn.

New blooms: more asters.

Blue Lobelia, also comes in red and white.

Hummingbird at the feeder.

Tobacco Hornworm with red tail horn.

I want my own tractor.

Small garter snake.

Emmett and Howie after a walk in the pasture.

Robin Egg in Nest.

Eastern Phoebe, immature, in the big pine.

Ice cream after Thai dinner in town.