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May 27, 2009
We went to
Sarah and Steve's on April 25 to spend some time with them, especially Alex and
Addy. We visited the horses, went biking, told stories (pictures 1
and 2), and jumped on the
trampoline.
Matt and Sarah's birthdays are April 18 and 20, so we
usually celebrate them at the same time. We all went to Matt and
Crystal's on May 3. Here's a page
of pictures from the day (the star for the day seems to be Ozzy).
This month Lynn made a quilting strip for a quilt
with a Halloween theme—cat's
eyes!
The Souhegan Valley Chorus concert was on May
9th. Our quartet, A La Carte, performed three songs. Here's
"Send in the Clowns"
featuring Lynn.
Peter Dreyer and I
went for a hike in Great
Brook Farm State Park on May 13. It was quite a windy day,
starting with sun but clouding over and finally raining lightly at the
end of the hike. We started the trail at the farm
pond, went by Meadow Pond (with a strange
sign), and past a giant boulder.
Back in December I put a temperature sensor at the
bottom of our beaver pond to record the temperatures through the
winter. This spring I went looking for the string tied to the
sensor and to a stick on the shore, but the string had come untied from
the stick. I figured the sensor was lost somewhere at the bottom
of the pond. Then Lynn and I took the rowboat out for a trip
around the pond, and we found a long string coming from the depths of
the pond and tangled in the dam. I pulled on it, and up came the
sensor! Here's the record of
temperatures for the last six months. You can see the water
was barely above 32° for most of the winter. I was hoping it
would stay at 45° or so to supply geothermal heat for a heat pump, but
no such luck.
I built a corner
cupboard for church. It was one of many projects for our
church refurbishment lately.
Lynn put some halved oranges out for the
animals. The squirrels loved them (pictures 1
and 2). I found a field
mouse on the lawn.
The redbud tree blossoms early (pictures 1
and 2), and the lawn violets thrive
before the first mowing. The ostrich ferns in the woods are
growing from fiddleheads,
through small leaves with spores,
to full-grown. The bleeding heart
and the Virginia bluebells make a nice color combination.
Some local pictures: a rainbow
seen from the Mont Vernon hill, and the Greenfield
cemetery. Mystery: Why do our ice cubes grow stalagmites,
usually at an angle and often very thin?
Feature: "Frost,
You Say?"
Quotes:
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the
situation." — Edward
R. Murrow
The Philosopher's Cornered
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