Tapestry in the woods at the Blue Heron Music Festival.
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jig
It sure feels good to be back home after a ten day family visit to New York. We had a great time at our family reunion, holding our new great-nephew for the first time, camping at Letchworth with my parents, and relaxing at a music festival. What an adventure!
The Upper Falls at Letchworth State Park in New York. I’ll share more pics soon!
We are so fortunate to have such wonderful friends and family to visit and the time to travel in the summer! I miss Western New York, even though we have so many friends and a great little homestead in Northern Illinois.
Uncle Tom (my handsome hubby) and the newest addition to our extended family. 🙂
Our friends Nick, Lorraine, Mark, Alice, Paul S, and Paul C met us for a weekend of music and camping in Sherman, NY. It was wonderful to see them again! There was so much great music being made that we had a hard time catching all the bands. Big Leg Emma is always a favorite.
Big Leg Emma performing at the Blue Heron Music Festival in Sherman, New York.
It feels good to be home again after all the excitement, even though we came home to a demolished kitchen and a missing turkey. You might remember that we are in the middle of remodeling our kitchen. I have the cabinets almost ready to re-install, but first we have some electrical work and sheet rock repair to take care of.
Kitchen remodel in progress…sigh. Not the greatest sight on our return.
Our friends from Trogg’s Hollow Farm took excellent care of our poultry menagerie for us while we were gone. But, unfortunately, the turkey hen (who insisted on staying outside overnight) and her clutch of eggs fell prey to a fox or the coyotes. RIP mama turkey.
Our broody turkey hen before vacation.
My garden grew lots of weeds while we were away…sorry, no pics! 🙂 The evening we returned I picked Swiss chard and onions to cook up with eggs from our hens for dinner. Yum! I missed having our homegrown goodies while we were away. The peas and potatoes are also ready and it looks like beans will be coming on soon. It sure is good to be back on the homestead.
Are you taking a vacation this summer? Where are you going?
Looks like a wonderful time and sweet little baby as well! 🙂
Looks like a fun time. We were gone for a week and the weeds took over the garden. I could of done without that home coming gift.
So glad to read of your family reunion back in our neck of the woods! Hope you had good weather while here. I’ve always been interested to check out the Blue Heron musical festival but have never done so (hubby not musically inclined, haha). Its so nice to catch up again with family. We just attended our eldest son’s wedding in June and had a good 3 day visit with my husband’s family from Florida who came. Your Letchworth photos brought back nice memories - haven’t been in years but it is a special place in NY. Sorry about mama turkey and that the kitchen elves didn’t have your kitchen remodeling done as a surprise, LOL. They must have been on vacation too!
Hi Linda,
Congrats to your son and his bride! How wonderful! I’m glad you had a nice visit with family 🙂
It has been about 30 years since I’ve been to Letchworth, so it was great to go back. The Blue Heron fest is fun and they have so many great bands…I hope you get a chance to go! I love the bluegrass bands 🙂
Well, I guess I’ll have to fire my kitchen elves! Maybe they ate my turkey :/
Hope all is well with you!
Actually, I don’t think your kitchen looks all that bad! When we were re-doing ours, it was a total disaster. I would love to visit the East Coast someday - it’s on my bucket list. Sorry to hear about mama turkey and her eggs, I know you were looking forward to little turkeys and I was looking forward to seeing them. I’m glad you had a nice vacation - we all need a little R and R now and then.
Hi Vickie,
Lol…don’t worry, it will look much worse before it looks better! 😉 I hope you have a chance to visit out east…there are so many things to see. I hope to get out west someday 🙂
Thank you for your kind words…I was sad to see that she was gone. We do have 6 youngsters, so it hasn’t been a total loss. But I’m thinking about maybe butchering all of the turkeys this fall instead of trying to breed and raise our own. I think I might raise the broad breasted white again when we need more turkey for the freezer…not my first choice, but life is a compromise. 😉
Sorry about the turkey and eggs. 🙁 We go away for a weekend each summer but that’s about it. And yes, usually something happens while we’re gone. This year was a wonderful exception!
Thanks, Kathi…it does seem like something happens every time we leave! I’m sure it would have been much worse if we didn’t have such great chicken sitters!
So glad you enjoyed your time with family & friends. I was born & raised in Buffalo - and not long again, was reminiscing of our trips to Letchworth. Ah, those were the days…but Florida is where I call home now (for the past 22 + years) Would love to go back in the fall sometime…miss those change of season colors! Sorry about Mama Turkey 🙁
I hope you can get back for the fall colors someday! I miss the autumn there…here we have shades of brown 😉 Mama turkey will be missed…thank you for your kind words.
It looks like you had a wonderful vacation. No, we won’t be taking one this year, not that we go on vacation every year; we don’t. This year we replaced our roof, gutters, and downspouts. Western NY looks beautiful.
Hi Sally,
Maintaining a home often comes first, as it should. I hope you can get away for a couple of day trips! Western NY is beautiful…I hope you can see it someday 🙂