Monday, October 14, 2024

End of summer 2024

 
Grandma Joan came up to celebrate her 80th birthday with us

We toured Boston Harbor and enjoyed lunch at Legal Seafood

The girls made a chocolate layer cake


For 3 years Caroline has been riding Heather's 20 year-old bike to and from school. She finally consented to getting a new, still non-electric, one.

Meanwhile she worked on college essays while not lifeguarding at the town rec center

We headed to the White Mountains for a summer day hike. This time it was the Tom-Field-Willey loop. 

And we saw a little sun, before it rained

Tessie went to Merck for kids day and played with liquid nitrogen

Heather and Tessie attended a live "trained" cats performance called the Rock Cats (video at the end)

In our backyard I brought in a professional landscaper to replace our hosta with more varied plants

This year was an all-time low for our monarch rearing. We didn't see any wild ones and only found eggs during one week of the summer. These 2 were raised from those eggs and were drying out before we tagged them. There is a male and a female and you can ID the male on the right by the black dots on the vein markings near the bottom of the wings.


Tessie starts 6th grade at the middle school and for her orientation day, we visited to allow her to practice opening her locker

Erin's preseason cross-country training began. The Boston Globe preseason rankings pegged the girls as the #5 team in the state.

Did you expect herding cats to be any different?