April 2024: More Lambs, Solar Eclipse, Right Whales
Tuesday April 2 More lambs at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln. Some frolicking around, doing that levitation thing where they leap up off all 4 hooves at once. Lambs head-butting other lambs. One newborn in the pen with its mom, still wobbly on its legs. The swan is now sitting on the nest at Ward's Pond - I'll be watching to see if the eggs hatch in a few weeks. Saturday April 6 We've come to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, to watch the total solar eclipse on Monday. First necessity: eclipse t-shirts, from the local Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium. Franklin Fairbanks, the founder of the museum, was a descendant of Thaddeus Fairbanks, who invented the platform scale here in 1830, commemorated by a historical plaque. His company, Fairbanks Scales Inc., continues to make weighing equipment today. Our motel, the Fairbanks Inn, has small paintings of the original platform scale on each room door. Sunday April 7 At breakfast, I went out to take a photo of the classic train station across f...