Father's Day 2011

What a fun Father's Day! James woke up to Father's Day cards and a new garden stone made by Aidan (James also received a blueberry bush, which we bought and planted several weeks ago and which already has tiny blueberries). James chose to have waffles with fresh strawberries and whipped cream for breakfast so that is what I prepared:


Aidan certainly enjoyed his portion:


We spent the day much as we did Mother's Day, by taking a picnic lunch to a state park, and hiking and geocaching. We picked up our picnic sandwiches at our favorite Italian market, Vince's Gourmet Imports, then drove over to Clark Reservation in Jamesville.

It was a perfect day to be outside: sunny, light breeze and eventually in the mid 70s. We had entered the coordinates of four geocaches into our GPS and we found the first two fairly quickly:


We then hiked back to the car to pick up our food and enjoyed our picnic. After lunch, we found another geocache and attempted to find the fourth on our list, but the trail we needed to take was closed due to high water. We spent the rest of the afternoon hiking and enjoying the outdoors:


Dinner was Dad's choice, and James chose steaks on the grill served with risotto and wilted spinach. Good choice, James, and happy Father's Day!

Thriving

James' garden is doing very well. Here is the garden today:


Rumor has it that there are a few small tomatoes amongst all the tomato blossoms and it is all I can do not to stand out there and cheer them on - grow, grow, grow! I have already eaten most of the radishes, we've had lettuce and broccoli, and there are shallots ready to harvest.

The garden is thriving, and so are we. Sometimes it hits me just how different our lives are here in New York than they were in Georgia, and those differences are all for the better. We have made friends here and continue to make friends, we adore our village, we know and like our neighbors, we are active outside year round, and there are so many things to do that sometimes we can't fit them all into our schedule. A summer full of fun activities for all of us is ahead and we couldn't be happier. And happy is a word that I would not have used to describe us in that other life.