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Find the Kitty Friday: What Livvy Does While We’re Away
We went on a two-day trip and left our half-Siamese baby, Livvy, alone in the house. Well– we also left the two Yorkshire terriers and the cockatiel, too, but they are mere pets. They are also contained (the dogs in a large penned area and the bird in a cage), so Livvy has the rule [...]
Continue reading...The Silent Summer: No Crickets, No Peepers!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Something very strange has happened. I realized it the other night while I outside in the backyard during twilight. The entire yard and forest and small creek that runs next door is completely silent. Completely silent! No crickets. No spring peepers. Nothing. I have never experienced anything like it since I’ve lived here. Besides the [...]
Continue reading...The Chimney and the Barn Owl…
Monday, January 31, 2011
…not a very good combination. Do you hear that tinkling sound, the sounds of shards of glass falling to the cold, concrete floor? That’s my heart, busted into little bitty pieces. A beautiful barn owl died in my chimney’s water tank duct last week. It started late in the evening. I was upstairs, and the [...]
Continue reading...Surprise on the Front Porch
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
I wondered what Livvy was staring at so intently on the front porch this evening. She often sits in the front entry, staring at the outside world of the two outside cats, Milo and Fuzzy. But she was staring a little more… intently… so I peeked out. WHOA. He arched his back when he saw [...]
Continue reading...Oh Deer Oh Deer!
Monday, October 5, 2009
They’re back. Mama Deer brings her newborn babies to our gardens every year. *sigh* Deer are very cute, but they are eating machines on legs. They decimated my Rose of Sharon, Apple trees, Willow trees, well just about everything (!) a year ago. Their appetite is insatiable. An hour of no eating is like a [...]
Continue reading...I HATE Deer
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I hate deer! I hate them with a burning white hot fiery inferno of liquid lava-boiling anger! YEAH, the nasty critters ate their winter through my trees and flower gardens again this year!! They ate my baby Weeping Willow tree down to a stub. I nurtured that thing for TWO years, and it’s gone. [...]
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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- Building a Winter Cat Shelter
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
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