Archive | March, 2008
Use it Up
With spring just around the corner here in New York State (we STILL have SNOW around here, folks! grrr), our thoughts are turning toward the great outdoors again. I’d heard about the Lights Out campaign through the Internet grapevine, but I didn’t turn my lights out. I forgot. I would love to see our community [...]
Continue reading...Growing Challenge Update
30. March 2008
This is my first Growing Challenge post since joining the group. It will be a small post because, quite frankly, I haven’t done anything yet! Well, I did buy seeds. Most of my seeds arrived a month ago. I’m still waiting for my seed potatoes and my grape vine which is coming sometime… and this [...]
Continue reading...Making Water Problems Good
29. March 2008
For several years now, my husband and I have discussed various ways to use all our storm runoff/high water table problems here for something positive. The local and state government is starting to clamp down on the water runoff into streams and creeks. Most of our runoff goes right down into Sauquoit Creek, which flows [...]
Continue reading...Quick Tip: Camera Batteries
28. March 2008
I bought fancy NiMH batteries for my battery-eating digital camera. I expected these expensive batteries to last longer than the cheaper alkaline batteries I’ve bought in the past. I was floored and mighty disgruntled when my camera displayed the “low battery” light! I had only used these NiMH batteries a few days! I was floored, [...]
Continue reading...No No No No No!
28. March 2008
I CANNOT believe that people in Georgia and Texas have outright, blooming flowers and trees right now! CANNOT believe it! Less than a week until April, and this is what we have: Nothing but brown scraggly trees and brown mud. Lots of mud. Worse, I looked at the weather station, and… Related Posts:No Related Posts
Continue reading...Titles WordPress Plugin
27. March 2008
I caught wind of a wonderful WordPress plugin that allows you to shows “unconventional” fonts on your website. Fonts on websites are a curious thing. Your blog posts might look wonderful with the “Brady Bunch” or “Comic Superhero” fonts. Your computer displays them beautifully. But any other person viewing viewing your page still sees the [...]
Continue reading...Home Inequity
27. March 2008
Thinking about a home equity loan? I have been. So I have been very keen on the market trends. Here’s something interesting from the New York Times. Equity Loans as Next Round in Credit Crisis Americans owe a staggering $1.1 trillion on home equity loans — and banks are increasingly worried they may not get [...]
Continue reading...The Grow Challenge
26. March 2008
I found an online gardening group (doesn’t that sound weird?!) that I’m going to join. Since I have a lot of gardening friends who visit, here’s a heads up: The Grow Challenge is to grow at least one plant from seed this year that you did not plant from seed last year. And once a [...]
Continue reading...Coping With a Wet Basement
25. March 2008
There are so many different reasons why a basement might be wet. I’m not going to even pretend I know about them all or can answer them all. The Internet is the best source I’ve found for finding solutions to specific problems. It has helped me immensely. We have what could be classified as a [...]
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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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30. March 2008
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