Rainy Spring Inside Day

It's very rainy and cold out today so perfect for cooking and baking. Making pork chops and vinegar pie for dessert . Cut a big bouquet of forsythia from our side yard and it looks so bright and pretty on our island. Perfect inside day.

Uncle Jack Visit

We drove up on Saturday to visit my Uncle Jack. My cousing Sadie and her boyfriend, Kyle, joined us and we had a lovely lunch at our local diner Talk of the Town. Great Reuben sandwich and it was great catching up since Spring is finally here. After lunch, we went thrifting at the local Habitat for Humanity which is really good at this location in Glens Falls, NY. Afterwards, we drove over to Saratoga to go to the Saratoga Oil and Vinegar company store. They make amazing flavored olive oils and vinegars great for fish, vegetables and salads. I also like to use it for Vinegar Pies which I love. We drove around and did some sight seeing as it was a gorgeous sunny day and then went back to my Uncle's apartment and had a nice long chat. It was a great day.

Saying Goodbye to Our Beautiful Garden Tree

We had this beautiful huge red maple tree that was our shade tree for our garden. It was massive and provided such amazing shade for the sheds and our garden. Unfortunately, the tree was distressed and we knew that we would have problems at some point. Over the holidays while we were out of town, one of the large limbs split and fell almost taking out one of our cars and took out our wifi wire. We realized that the tree was at risk at this point of causing more damage to the sheds and garden so we felt it was time that we had to have the tree cut down. Tree maintanence is far more expensive than you can imagine especially when you live in a forest. It really depresses me when we have to have large trees on our property but this had to be done or we risked more damage. We had a neighbor who does tree maintanence take down the tree but we left a good portion of the base of the trees. The lower part of the tree can decompose gradually with little risk of doing any damage. We will miss the tree a lot especially on hot summer days without any shade. We are working on converting one of the sheds into a Florida room so we can go inside and get a break from the hot sun. Very sad.