I always peek inside the metal recycling bin when I go to the dump (Saturdays and Wednesdays) and this Saturday I found this huge cast-iron urn and heaved it quickly into my car. I have been wantng one for a long time, so I was very happy to find it, this week I am hoping to find a antique chambers stove and a 1954 Ford. We went to out friend's camp in the Adirondacks and had a great time, we spent two nights but were kept inside a lot because of the swarms of black flies. by the third day they had subsided a bit. We brought up a blue potato salad and a strawberry rhubarb pie. I love rhubarb pie - but I know a certain someone who claims its "of the Devil". We ate too much and slept too little - the girls went feril and entertained themselves for an entire afternoon with Connor and Jack building and maintaining a campfire. Lingering around the fire late at night the light lasts past nine.
The grey skies of new england held off theri showers for long enough to let the girls run about under the neighbor's Crab apple tree.
Its the time of the year for Morels - Just as the apple trees are about to bud out. Favourite huning places are closely gaurded, Lizzie and I went to our spot on Sunday and for the first time I can remember she wanted her picture taken - holding her mushrooom finds. We took them home and cooked them up with a bunch of Asparagus sent home with us from Mom's garden. On this same sunny Sunday, after much wiggling and prodding from Tory, myself and Grandma - Zoe's first loose tooth finally came out, to exclaimations of joy in the car on the way home from town. It was a tiney little pearl of white and as Tory closely inspected it, the tooth fell into the crack of the seat belt. We had to take apart the parking break in order to retrieve it. Zoe is delighted with the new gap in her bottom row and with the old Eisenhower dollar she found under her pillow this morning.
On the first real warm day the smell of woodsmoke is replaced with a rising heat and the smell of attic as you make your way upstairs. Bodoni finished her vacation with Mom and Dad as we made our way down to Argyle on a very warm Friday. Though the weather turned cool and wet on Saturday we did go for a walk in the pasture. We were too late to catch many of the spring flowers, but we climbed a lot of trees and saw a lot of trilliums and the girls picked lots of violets in the pasture woods. In the grass near the old barn Tory found Swallowtail, a little slow from the recent rain both the girls laughed as it climbed over their hands.
