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Find the Kitty Friday 5/20
Can you spot her? Where could she be? Hint: It’s where cats love to be…. Isn’t she the sweetest thing?! She often hops onto the clothes dryer to nestle in a laundry basket. She cares not if the basket is filled with socks and shorts, just as long as it’s warm and cozy. Gotta love [...]
Continue reading...Sticky Note Fun With Livvy
23. April 2011
Most of the time I tolerate Livvy’s antics pretty well. She has this very bad habit of climbing up on my desk and planting her big Siamese butt in front of my monitor. She then presses her wet nose on the screen– or even licks it!– so the monitor is speckled with slimy cat snot. [...]
Continue reading...I Am NOT a Dog Person! But…
8. March 2011
This is one of my daughter’s Yorkies (well, “Morkies.” They are a Yorkshire and Maltese mix). Isn’t he adorable?!?!?! His name is Cricket, or “Cricket Bug” as we affectionately call him. The picture is a little fuzzy because he is pausing mid-motion for a split second. Whew, these critters move fast. We let them out [...]
Continue reading...She Begged. I Relented.
15. February 2011
GOSH I spoil this cat. Must be old age or something, I NEVER used to be this way. Or maybe it’s Livvy’s adorable face and charm. I’m in love, lol. Well, the temperatures finally crawled up into the mid 20′s, so she sat and meowed at the door, giving me those dopey sad eyes and [...]
Continue reading...Those Siamese Blue Eyes
20. January 2011
The most striking feature of Siamese cats, I think, is their eyes. Such beautiful eyes. Livvy’s are light-blue. She is a Tabby Point Siamese (half Siamese, half Tabby cat). And she seems to have inherited the best of both breeds: she’s elegant, spunky, personable, and vivacious. And gorgeous. She was sitting on my desk the [...]
Continue reading...Cemeteries and Private Property
13. January 2011
Did you know that in some municipalities, it is perfectly legal to use a portion of your property as a private family cemetery? I can’t remember where I read that last year, but I remember reading it, and being surprised. Some states are developing more stringent laws about burials on private lands. In early America, [...]
Continue reading...Lounging Livvy
10. January 2011
It’s Monday, I’ve got a lot of work to do and there’s a lot of it so I’m in a hurry, and what happens to me?? SHE DOES. How can I resist that? She just wants to lounge around. She’s been very clinging lately. Follows me everywhere. I’m not sure why she’s doing it. Sure, [...]
Continue reading...Find the Kitty Friday 12/31/01
31. December 2010
It’s the final day of 2010, and I am not very sad to see the year go. It’s been a year full of extremes- great sadness because my dad this year, and so did some of my beloved pets. Great gladness because I got the kitchen done after 13 years of dreaming. Goodbye, 2010. It’s [...]
Continue reading...My Winter Companion
17. December 2010
It’s been awfully cold this week– down into the single digits at night. Yesterday, when we got gobs of the lake effect snow, it was freezing, not even 10 degrees. Today the sun came out and it warmed us to 20 or so. Thank God, since we turned off the forced air furnace and installed [...]
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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!
- Parging The Foundation Walls
- The Silent Summer: No Crickets, No Peepers!
- Building a Winter Cat Shelter
- The Tempurpedic Mattress Update
- How to Create a Serfdom
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20. May 2011
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