May arrived and brought with it the start of many new things! Baby guinea hens arrived! Via card-board box as usual, bringing joy and laughter as all chicks do. The first summer sunsets on the lake as it’s slowly beginning to warm. I graduated from high-school! An exciting and scary and big new thing. The first warm walks to the beach! Accompanied by Huckleberry and Devman. And the first tiny little leaf buds decided it was time to begin showing their new green heads. Our springs come slowly,...

Hello! I am writing this the last weekend of March, from my gate, in the MSP airport, about to depart on an adventure, and while I have a lot of excitement for my next week away from home, I am feeling all of the weird airport feelings. Airports are the closest things we know to portals, buildings we walk into and out of weeks later, with the sun and salt lingering on our skin from distant, warm lands. Very strange. There are tears, of joy at reunions, and tears, of sorrow at partings, and I...

What a month! February was very full. I’ll start with the happenings at home. The cold finally and slowly eased, leaving the animals happy to be outside in the sun and lots of snow for skiing and playing. Book Across the Bay was a highlight! Skiing miles across the Chequamegon bay at night fall, with the stars above, Lit by thousands of ice lumineers, fantastic! Coulter and Cedar have been ice climbing tons, with weekend trips to Canada sending crazy hard routes as always. The ice skating...