Hello friends,

The weather has been wonderful and hot this week. The pollen has been assaulting my sinuses to the extreme so that’s been challenging but there’s been a few times where it’s been better to suffer through it than miss out.

Dirty dirt

It’s been an obsession of his lately but he loves dirt. Typical boy, it’s wonderful. He was very upset though that there weren’t any worms in this batch of dirt but sorry bud, can’t win them all! We’ve been spending a lot of time on our deck and it’s been great, especially in the evening. The sun is on the other side and you can catch a few rays if you stand near the railing. He made me a salad with this dirt, how delicious!

This is the view from our deck looking out to the little patch of forest before it turns into a huge river. It’s quite nice living near the river, it really drives the temperature and climate of the area, being a fairly large body of fast moving water. You can kind of see it between the trees. We are on one of the big bends in the river and it’s a nice down wind corner. In the winter this is challenging sometimes but the summer it’s fantastic. The nice breeze that blows off it brings the temperature to a comfortable level.

Butterfly Caterpillars!

We’ve been planning on ordering these for a while but finally pulled the trigger. Last year we went to a really nice butterfly museum here in Mass and were going to buy some from them but with all this fear mongering business going on, they weren’t open much and the hours were sporadic. Online order it was!

The little one was so excited and he keeps insisting we take them out to play with them. He’s pretty gentle with things when he’s paying attention but he’s also very known to crush things without realizing it. We will be getting them a new container to grow in, we read that they need a lot more space than this but it looks like they may want to cocoon soon. We’ve got a little container ready to go to release them, we are just hoping that all 5 will live long enough to hatch to a butterfly.