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Guest Post: First House
First house Contributed by Milford Woods Well, I just signed my life away on a dotted line….or at least the next 30 years of my life. I just bought a house. My very first house. Am I even grown up enough to do that? I might should have let the bank know that I still [...]
Continue reading...Strange Neighbors
4. November 2011
Strange neighbors Guest written by our friend Mason Abbott My wife and I love our neighborhood, but there has recently been some suspicious activity in and around our home. The people in the house three doors down from us keep very odd hours, and they are always having people over at the strangest times of [...]
Continue reading...Times Are Tough
28. October 2011
Times are tough Guest written by our friend Mason Abbott Saving money is tough but my husband and I decided we were going to find a way to make it work. We really cared about being able to put something away for our kids and although things have gotten tight at times it’s crucial for [...]
Continue reading...Guest Post: Moving to a New Townhome
25. August 2011
On occasion, I feature a guest post on this blog if it contains information that may be useful. The Author of this post is Velma Baird Who would have guessed moving into a new townhome would be so much work! I figured that with a one bedroom I wouldn’t have that much stuff but when [...]
Continue reading...Sedentary Exploits
9. July 2011
I’m doing a lot of armchair traveling this year, I tell you. Exercise, what’s that? Oh yeah, the thing that cures diet pills, uh huh. Well, the Hubs just assembled, primed and painted two new Adirondack chairs and — let me tell you — they are some of the most comfortable chairs ever. I wrote [...]
Continue reading...Sloooowly Starting to Rise Again
23. June 2011
It’s almost July. Ya think I should be getting back to the garden and home renovation projects yet? We purchased an air conditioner. Hurray! It’s the first air conditioner I’ve ever had. It’s the window kind, so we’ve been having *fun* trying to fit it into our old 1855 window frame…. more on that to [...]
Continue reading...It’s Tiki Time!
3. June 2011
Sometime in the near future (after we get new windows and fix the front porch and maybe paint the house, lol), we’re going to build a very nice deck in the back of the house. Right now, we currently have no where to sit in the evenings, just the asphalt lot in the backyard (and [...]
Continue reading...Tax Time Draws to a Deadline….
4. April 2011
Oh my gosh, it’s April already. APRIL! We haven’t got our taxes done yet. Usually the husband gets them done in the first few weeks if February. But this year, we might actually owe money. So, haha, we’re putting it off until the bitter end. Because I am self-employed, the sheer amount of paperwork is [...]
Continue reading...BYOS: Buy Your Own Sofas
4. April 2011
Thinking about it makes me very queasy, but the topic must be covered. Bedbugs. *gag* *wretch* And I thought fleas were bad. Bedbugs are making a comeback, especially in New York. Bedbugs were practically wiped out from the industrialized nations thanks to DDT. But DDT is now banned, and critters like malaria-bearing mosquitoes and bedbugs [...]
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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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