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The Snow is Gone The Snow is Gone!
Almost all of it. If the photo above looks horribly gray and gloomy… that’s because Upstate New York has been horribly gray and gloomy! We were blessed with sunshine about a week ago, but I wasn’t able to enjoy it (was sick). But spring IS on the way, I know it is. Carole blogged about [...]
Continue reading...Cabin Fever Big Time
16. February 2010
*****sighhhhh**** Pardon me as I recollect… Can’t you just smell them? I wonder how my new bed in my Secret Garden will turn out this year. I’m so desperate I don’t even care about how ugly that sump pump pipe looks. Ah, to see green again…. It’s been so gloomy this winter. I haven’t had [...]
Continue reading...Just Try and Knock This Over, Buddy
28. January 2010
We haven’t had hardly ANY snow this year, but the snowplows have gone wild! There are three road signs along the front of my property, and two of them are fallen on the curb, the victims of the maniac snowplow driver. One of them (a “No Parking” sign) is horribly mangled, as if the snowplow [...]
Continue reading...Snow Machine Vehicle
12. February 2009
This snow machine vehicle, a hybrid of a tractor, automobile, and steam-roller, designed in 1924, is fantastic! I want one! I think we could use some of these in Upstate New York! Armstead Snow Motors from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo. From the site: In January 1926, Time magazine reported: “Having used the motor car for [...]
Continue reading...No More Chances
31. January 2009
Well. I guess we’re not getting our January Thaw. Here’s hoping for an early spring. Usually we get a reprieve of winter’s gloom and cold about the last week of January. No such thing this year. It was a freezing cold January, up until the bitter end. We got up to a whopping 12 degrees [...]
Continue reading...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. You can check out my other blogs here.
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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