Archive | April, 2008
Warm Sunny Sunday
We are enjoying our fifth day of sunshine. Temperatures are summer-style. Today is slightly cooler at 78 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s a quiet Sunday. After the morning church service, the family settled in to small projects. I am catching up on my church notes and on some online writing assignments. The Historian is working on her [...]
Continue reading...Planting a Grape Vine
20. April 2008
We’ve had several sunny days in a row in Upstate New York. A miracle! 80 degrees Fahrenheit, too! People can’t remember when it was so warm in April. I can– it was 18 years ago. I was overdue, expecting my first child. It was brutal, lol. Anyway, we’ve been taking advantage of the wonderful weather [...]
Continue reading...I’m an Entrecard Favorite!
19. April 2008
Lady Rose at Entrecard Favorites chose this blog as her favorite of the day. I am so honored! Somebody actually likes my rants about electrical circuit panels, gardening, and dreams of teak patio furniture and Bella wood flooring! I got a nice new badge, too. If they lived in NJ I’d hire them for sure. [...]
Continue reading...Re-Generation
18. April 2008
Skip having the squirrels run endlessly across belts to generate your energy! And let those kids out of the basement and off those bicycle-run generators! How about your very own mini windmill! Check out the photo and very intriguing story at Off Grid Living. I’m very much in favor of self-generating electricity. I’m going to [...]
Continue reading...Window Tinting for Energy Efficiency
17. April 2008
I’ve been looking at window tinting film recently. We have a unique situation around the Mecomber homestead (you regular readers already know this): we are surrounded by asphalt! My home and property is on the edge of a commercially-zoned section of town. We have a business to the south (with asphalt driveway and parking lot), [...]
Continue reading...Does Money Make You Happy?
17. April 2008
One of my favorite frugal blogs is Common Sense With Money. The writer– a certified public accountant turned mom– is incredible with numbers, organization, and knowledge. I don’t understand half of what she says, lol, but I am learning! She has a very interesting post up today, looking at a new study that says that [...]
Continue reading...Food Costs and Frugal Living
16. April 2008
I know I’m not the only one to notice the outrageous food costs these days. I was listening to a guest host on the Rush Limbaugh Show who stated that the food crisis and energy crisis are government-induced. I believe it. The real question is WHY. I try to avoid news headlines because they are [...]
Continue reading...Wordless Wednesday: Spring Projects
15. April 2008
The thought of spring projects makes me weary right now. There are just multitudes of piddly little things to do. Here’s one of them. It’s our clothesline, which bore the brunt of the heavy snow and the snowplow over the winter. Ugh. We’ll have to drill a new hole through the asphalt, again. Because our [...]
Continue reading...Cute Floorplan Website
15. April 2008
I heard about this new website through Kim Komando, Floorplanner.com. It’s a site that helps you develop floor plans. Or, if you just want to rearrange the furniture, it’ll help you do that, too. It’s really fun! It’s the best little floor planner I’ve ever tried. You can drag and drop, etc., and it looks [...]
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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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20. April 2008
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