Archive | December, 2007
Welcome, Stumblers and Searchers!
This blog has been experiencing a rise in the “polls”: search engine boosts. Lots of people visit me from Google, looking mainly for information on “cold air return vents” (my popular article is right here, by the way). This blog has recently been “stumbled” (stumbleupon) and I want to thank everyone who has stumbled me! [...]
Continue reading...Nothing More Than Ceilings…
27. December 2007
I am betraying my age a little with that title. It’s a terrible spoof of an old Eric Carmen song that seemed it be in every TV satire skit of the 80s. Anyway… My son had his birthday party recently, in the Dining Room. I love my Dining Room (even though it’s not remodeled yet), [...]
Continue reading...Vinyl vs. Wood Siding
25. December 2007
My house is, as you know, 150 years old. It still has its original siding. *gasp* However, the original wood siding is buried under a layer of black tar paper and slathered with asbestos shingle siding. It makes me terribly angry if I think too long about it. I hate, hate, hate the asbestos siding. [...]
Continue reading...Im-Pediment No. 2
21. December 2007
Today my husband got up the pediment and trim for the Living Room/Entry Hall door. You can see the gap between the fluted trim and the door jamb. The reason for this is the 1855 thumblatch that I wanted to preserve. The latch needs space to close, and I did not want to hack a [...]
Continue reading...Im-Pediments
20. December 2007
A little progress is much better than no progress, correct? Working in the winter is loathesome. Power tools are cold, the wood is stiff, the paint is stiffer…. I try to avoid doing anything major during the winter. However, we are trying to get up some of the trim in the Living Room. We’ve been [...]
Continue reading...Homemade Petting Zoo
18. December 2007
A friend of mine recently quizzed me on our deer population here, even though I live in a town with a lot of traffic– and I’m only 5 minutes away from a large city. Well, we’ve even heard of bears wandering around town, but thank God we haven’t had any of those kinds of visitors! [...]
Continue reading...Deerly Beloved
18. December 2007
Driving around the area, we’ve been seeing lots of trucks parked off the sides of the roads. We in Upstate know what this means: deer season! My growing sons are becoming very interested in outdoor sportsmanship. They love to hear my stories of living on a mountain, hunting deer and rabbits. My brothers were master [...]
Continue reading...Another Flood in the Basement :(
18. December 2007
We’ve been plagued with flooding in our basement for the past seven or eight years. In the past, we’ve seen up to three feet in our basement. we had to replace our furnace last summer because of the devastating floods that hit Upstate. But over this summer, remarkable for its lack of rain, we had [...]
Continue reading...The Totals Are In
18. December 2007
My kids went outside to shovel this afternoon. They promptly reported that “alost two feet” of snow had fallen since Sunday morning. I have to admit that I doubted them! I am not very good at guessing snow totals, but two feet seemed an awful lot to me. So I checked our local weather station, [...]
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I’m Rebecca
:) I’m a married mom of four teenage children. We live in Upstate New York. We bought an old 1855 home and acre property, over 10 years ago. We've been in the slow, agonizing process of living in the home while (trying) to renovate it. When I'm not renovating, I'm a freelance writer and blogger.
We've learned to dig a French drain, plant huge flower and vegetable gardens, wire a circuit panel, install furnace ducting, understand the enigmatic complexities of the plumbing system, and more. It's been *quite* the adventure.
You can read more about us here, read up on the history of the home, and read about what we've renovated so far. Thanks for visiting!
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28. December 2007
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