Spring 2022

 

One of Caroline's extracurricular clubs is Envirothon, an environmental sciences club that culminates in a statewide competition on subjects such as forestry and water quality. We visited the Arboretum to bone up on identifying Massachusetts trees

After learning to distinguish a shagbark hickory from a pignut hickory, Caroline and the team went to the state competition and took home first place. The prize is a week in July of EnviroSci camp at the national competition, this year hosted at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 

A perk of our town composting program is receipt of one free bag of compost. I'm hoping to complete the circle by growing garden veggies that I will compost, and so on.

Another push from Caroline is to try meat alternatives and I have to say that these chik patties are a decent substitute for a breaded chicken breast

The town's zero-waste coalition is raising awareness about plastic recycling, such as the non-recyclableness of black polypropylene

Erin was a star on the middle school track team focusing on the long jump and mile run

Tessie's completed her first year of math team with an extra big class

On May 13th we hit our first 80+ degree day of the year, which triggered a trip to the town ice cream shop

We went to Somers for Memorial Day and the fish were biting. Everyone got in on the action...

We landed 21 fish for the weekend

Other activities included dousing invasive phragmites plants with herbicide

Planting a tree sapling

enjoying time with Grandma Joan and Grampa Ed

and bringing Tessie to New Jersey

This time we visited Ellis Island and its famous hall of immigration

The Passenger Search database allows you to look for family members who arrived at the Port of New York from 1820 to 1957. There are records for 517 Ehmanns and 152 Loseys but no Heather Loseys, Erin Ehmanns, or Theresa Ehmanns. There were 6 Caroline Ehmanns and 1 David Ehmann.

Lady Liberty was looking fine

On the way home Heather and Tessie left from Newark to visit Heather's Dad and Maria in South Carolina. Tessie got a VIP tour of the cockpit