It has been really windy here. There was a brief hale storm yesterday afternoon. But last night it was blowing so hard that the breeze through the door downstairs was whistling loud enough to wake us up. I managed to silence it by plugging the hole with a piece of tape. [...]
We went to the open air skating rink in the Derby marketplace today. Sage had a wonderful time skating between Molly and myself. We let her lag behind a little and then swing her forward. We all thought it was great fun. River tried it a few times, but we didn’t [...]
The weekend is coming to a close and I’ve not too much to report. We’ve had a nice week back in Derby. It was nice to come back to our regular activities; we missed gym class on Monday because we overslept due to jet lag, but we made it to Spanish, art, and [...]
Continue reading about The Adventures of Chester and Jumbles
Chester arrived on Monday, apparently none the worse for his trans-Atlantic journey. Jumbles has some paperwork issues, but should be able to join us shortly. Chester has lost no time in exploring the house and cleaning out cobwebs from all the hard to reach spots. This morning he caught a mouse! We noticed the mouse [...]
We’ve been feeding the ducklings for the past few weeks. They eat voraciously when we feed them and they’ve gotten quite large now. Their feathers are really developing and they’re losing their yellow color. They’ve learned that there is food coming when we approach and sometimes if we’re a bit late with the goods, they [...]
The ducklings at the pond nearby hatched! They are so cute!
Yesterday, we were having a picnic near the Derby cathedral between swimming and a Viking program organized by the the local home ed group, when we saw a peregrine falcon sitting on the nest platform on the cathedral tower. We were inspired to check out the webcams that were placed in the tower this [...]
