Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Charlotte and I just returned from quite an exciting experience (namely, participating in this year's Portsmouth Halloween Parade). The event is amazing and totally grassroots-run, and we were just one of many hundreds of people marching through enormous crowds along the sidewalks (many of whom were in costumes, too!) It was a great event, and it was lots of fun to be part of the excitement.

Time permitting, we'll add some more photos from before and during the parade, but in the meantime, here's another photo someone snapped of our costume!

View from my Office

I have been meaning to bring my camera to campus for the past week or so, but in a rush to catch the bus, make lunch, etc, I have forgotten...until today! The view out my office window has been so incredibly vibrant and I thought I would share it with you. I am not sure how much longer it will last as the leaves are falling fast, but I caught it in time, I think! The University of New Hampshire campus has been unbelievably beautiful lately and I hope the same is true of your surroundings, wherever that may be! Happy Fall!

Quark Fest at Brookford Farm

While it is now some time ago now that we were at this cheerful event, we thought you might enjoy seeing some photos from Brookford Farm's Quark Fest that we went to back in October! As you may remember, Brookford Farm was featured in a post early in the summer as the supplier of the raw milk we used to make mozzarella!

Quark is a cheese/yogurt-like product and this was a festival centered entirely around it!

Look at that Quark!

Here are the happy cows that make our milk! And such a beautiful day!

The farm was set up with all sorts of fall entertainment, including: a hay maze in the barn...

...puppet show...

...quark-inspired food!

...celtic-folk music...

...and some very friendly chickens, among other events including pumpkin carving and all sorts of other fun, nature craft projects.

So long for now! We'll be back to post some additional photos from fall festivals and events that we're attended in the Seacoast in the past month or so. Enjoy!

Fall finds!

While we're on the subject of new acquisitions, take a look at three of our latest! Charlotte and I stumbled across all of these a couple weekends ago up in Dover. First, let's address the pumpkins. Charlotte and I were driving near the community garden, which has been the home of many sad gardeners lately (as our pumpkin crop was largely stolen) when suddenly Charlotte yelled "Stop!" In the midst of some very dense brush (and wending its way into the forest) was a huge pumpkin vine with two perfectly shaped-and perfectly orange-pumpkins! Hooray!

Around the same time, we stumbled across this awesome circa 1949 Smith-Corona typewriter in a Dover shop. While we learned from a postcard inside the case that Mrs. James Jordan used it up in Great Diamond Island, ME during its younger years, we are bringing it all over the Northeast on our travels. We are having quite a time learning about this contraption we never grew up with (who knew that "Caps Lock" actually used to lock something?!?), and I have a new-found appreciation for exclamation points, as this typewriter was designed without an "!" key. Fun!

Artie the Avocado

Sorry, folks! Long time, no blog.

And the impetus for this post is the sprouting and splitting-open of Artie the Avocado (affectionately named by THE Kevin Angstadt), conveniently posed against fun, new, non-law/grad school-related reading material from the Dover Public Library!


We shall see what comes of Artie, as I am off to buy him a new home in the morning to begin the next stage of his life. Wish him luck!

Edit: As it turns out, he's not quite ready to be planted. He has yet to grow some nice long roots. Stay posted!