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Good to Be Home
We were away for a few days, traveling to the rural outback of Upstate New York (Schoharie County). This county ranks — in my estimation — as one of the most rural areas of Upstate New York. And these folks are not just rural, they are fiercely rural. No fancy, high-falutin’, city slicking city life [...]
Continue reading...Collective Groanings from Central NY
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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...Hurricane Irene Eve
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Our sunset tonight. Nice pretty colors but she is TOTALLY unwelcome. This week alone, Upstate New York has had a tornado, an earthquake and a hurricane. ONE WEEK. Insane! The weather guys are forecasting upwards of 5 inches for my area. Please keep us in your prayers. Five inches means bad flash flooding. Irene needs [...]
Continue reading...An Ounce of Prevention…
Friday, August 26, 2011
… is worth a pound of cure, as the saying goes. We spent part of our afternoon in hurricane preparedness today. See that green area in central New York State? That’s me. We pulled in the patio furniture (oh my word, we have a TON of chairs, did you know that?!, the tractor, the tables, [...]
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...Get Rid of It. Yeah.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
WHAT IS IT with all this crazy weather?? Will someone please tell me?! Flooding here, flooding in the Mississippi?? Vicious tornadoes and I saw that they even had snow in Colorado?? In late MAY, for pete’s sake. My area is still cleaning up from late April’s flash flooding. Everything is just so messy. Like everyone [...]
Continue reading...A Little Discouraged About the Gardens
Saturday, May 21, 2011
For the first time in years, I’m seriously thinking about skipping all gardening this year, even the vegetable garden. It’s been my custom to add a little bit to the yard every year. When we bought the property, it was horribly overgrown. Neighbors used it as a semi-park and dumping ground. It took a heck [...]
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’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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