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Collective Groanings from Central NY
What is it with our region lately? We’re being targeted with rain. Stupid hurricanes. Yeah, we got more rain, more flooding. We only just swept Hurricane Irene out of our homes and basements and roads. Tropical Storm Lee decided to take the highway straight up from the south. Look at that line. Crazy! In case [...]
Continue reading...My Little Cupcake
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
She’s such a sweet baby. I didn’t want to have those flood photos up as the first post, anymore. :-p I’m sick of the mud and rain and cold. I have this terrible longing to hop in the car and drive far, far away… to some warm, sunny beach where I will sit on the [...]
Continue reading...We Interrupt Our Normal Broadcast…
Friday, April 29, 2011
I’m going to skip Find the Kitty Friday this week. We kinda have other things on our plates. We had flooding yesterday, and my house was hit. Good news is that all the water is out of the basement, and the oil spill is completely contained. Today, we have to scrub down the walls and [...]
Continue reading...I Told You We’ve Had Too Much Rain
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The husband woke me up at around 7:30 this morning, telling me he needed my help. The basement had flooded. If you have followed this blog for any length of time, you’ll remember that my area has severe flooding problems. It’s actually a sharp bone of contention in my town, as many of us think [...]
Continue reading...Basement Window Filled In
Thursday, December 2, 2010
I got this done in the nick of time. Winter is fast upon us. If you recall, I had to close up this window because the original 1855 window had finally rotted away, 155 years later. We have water pipes and some drain pipes in front of this window. It was imperative that I either [...]
Continue reading...Plugging Holes For Winter
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
I’m busy trying to get all my Internet writing work done these days, and at the same time, scrambling around trying to winterize before the snow falls (which, they say, will occur Friday morning). Eeep! I’m not ready for winter. I mean, I’m READY— there’s nothing I’d like more than to cozy up in front [...]
Continue reading...Parging The Foundation Walls
Monday, June 29, 2009
I have been in the process— oh, for about THREE years now!! — of parging the foundation walls of my home. Most new homes since the 60s and 70s have concrete block or poured concrete foundations. But waaaay back in the olden days (as when my house was built), foundations were built from field stones [...]
Continue reading...Too Much Water
Friday, August 15, 2008
I wrote about our power outage earlier this week. Power outages are rare for my neighborhood. My block is on the same grid as much of the commercial district, so the power company has extreme measures to keep this grid up and running. However, Monday we had a severe thunderstorm and we lost power for [...]
Continue reading...Winter Woes
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Grr. I don’t know what it is about winter. Our basement has been flooding again! All summer long, the sump pump hardly went off, due to our severe shortage of rainfall. I have to say, I was so thankful for the dry summer. My basement was dry! Now all of a sudden, ever since the [...]
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.
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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Thursday, September 8, 2011
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