Category Archives: New Hampshire

Sequestration Day #21

Even though it’s a weekend, Zoe was busy with schoolwork today.  Her biology lab report was met with a collective yawn around the house, but the Bakeshop project that took up most of her afternoon gathered much more attention.

Also I tried some fruit tree grafting at home and at the camp.  Maybe this is the year one of the grafts will take.

Here’s hoping the electrical tape will hold.

 

AND, I saw two snakes in the woods!  Or it was the same one twice and it moved fast.

Looks pretty fast to me.

Sequestration Day #20

I swear I read somewhere that the new Star Wars had been released early for streaming.

It was a stress-free Saturday.  The sun finally came out.  We could spend some time outside.  We signed up for a free week of DisneyPlus so we could see that most recent Star Wars movie, only to find that that movie isn’t actually on DisneyPlus yet, so we watched the newly-released Pixar movie Onward, instead, and really liked it.  It was that kind of day.

Here are some highlights:

The line of yellow grass to the left side of the picture was the high water line for this weekend’s high tides.

 

Epic Everdell

Epic fort building

Sneaker shopping online

 

 

 

Fondinner!

Sequestration Day #19

A few words about alcohol:  We get the idea that a lot of people are using their downtime around their homes to drink a lot.  That’s not how it works for us, exactly.  We, the adults here, usually have a drink in the evening, but that’s usually it.

In fact, our recent practice is to share a pint-sized can of beer a little before dinner.  That’s a cup apiece.  We got in the habit because of our friend and Jen’s co-worker Dan, who often brings cans like this back for us when he visits Vermont.  Half a can is enough for us.  Thanks, Dan.

Of course, one could argue that this led us to break our quarantine a few days ago in order to visit Smiley’s Discount Beverage at the Big Bend in Dover.  It’s really only breaking quarantine if you consider beer a non-essential item.  Our governor, upon announcing a stay-in-place order last week, specifically mentioned breweries as essential businesses.  True fact.

Photo highlights from today:

Takeout boneless wings from the Wing-Itz Butchery in Newington

It turns out they didn’t release The Last Jedi on Disney Plus after all.

Sequestration Day #18

Oh, happy green washing machine power indicator light, welcome back.  We missed you.  Thankfully, Mr. Appliance is an essential worker.  Also, it should be said that the oft-maligned Home Depot seems to have honored the five-year service plan we purchased with the washer their installers declined to install and which broke after a year and a half.

Anyway, we can do laundry in-house again.

Other things that we can do around here:

Have taco salad for dinner

 

 

Enjoy viritual moms’ night out

Clean chainsaw, shape pottery and take a violin lesson all at the same time in the same room

 

Sequestration Day #17

A new month dawns.

Jen turned the calendar from March to April, and suddenly it became clear why Zoe and Lanie were giggling so much.  Even after I was reminded it was April Fool’s Day, I still got tricked.

The school lunch coordinator is usually such a trustworthy guy.  No one actually got lobster roll or prime rib (in our district at least) in their lunch bag today.

As for what Zoe and Lanie were up to:

Sequestration Day #16

Remote learning is still the focus of our household these days.  Except when Jen’s in a video meeting, then the focus is her puzzle.  As for remote learnig:

I made a new video for the kindergarteners.  This one is about seeds.

Zoe went to the high school to pick up a big slab of clay for her pottery class.

 

 

 

Here are some other things that happened:

Lanie’s pretzels were served with dinner.

Ivy and Ebby napped together.

Sequestration Day #15

Before

After

Nadia is adept at avoiding getting her picture taken, but when it comes time to clean the kitchen she can get the job done.

In fact, we have total confidence that she can do anything she sets her mind to, as long as she can watch NCIS at the same time.  Today was her kitchen clean up day.

Other items of note from today:

Daisy sang along during Lanie’s violin practice.

Jen carted a hundred or so masks to the distribution hub.

Dinner was lasagna, made by Lanie.

Sequestration Day #14

It was a calm, quiet Sunday — until the thunder and lightning started around 9 pm.  We got a good walk in before the rain really made a nuisance of itself.

Also today, there was this:

A cake baked last night and the dishes still around this morning

 

 

Online church meeting

Followed by online Harry Potter Escape Room

 

A nearly-ocmpletely terraformed Mars

Sequestration Day #13

Most of us have barely gotten out of the house for two weeks.  For those who were interested in getting out, and also interested in being outside, we offered a hiking trip in the Lakes Region.  The actual hike we chose was to the summit of Mt. Roberts, looming over the Castle in the Clouds  It was suggested to us by our friends, the Goldsmith-Steele family.

The last college acceptance photo for a while

It’s rare that we have a spare Saturday to get out and hike;  there’s usually lots of other demandson our time.  We also curently have a new appreciation for anyting outside of our yard, so our steps were lighter than they might have normally been.  Beyond that, we were also celebrating the end of college acceptance season.  That season ended on a high note this morning with a positive email from Olin College of Engineering the last place Zoe had been waiting to hear from.

Here are some sights from our hike:

Sequestration Day #12

We are so frequently glad we found a home with places we can walk and ride to.  I rode my bike to work at the high school today. Then, when we were all done working, I jogged out to meet some of the family at the Longmarsh Conservation Area. After a little hike there, I did not feel like running back home, so I accepted a lift.

Jen cleaned up at Splendor.

Here are a few more things from today:

We reserved books for pickup at the library.

 

 

Busy beavers at Longmarsh