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Whatever Happened to New and Improved?
Remember the old days when companies in the United States wanted to build things bigger and better? Ever upward! Remember? EVERYTHING was “new” and “improved”! American companies built products with exceptional quality, just because THEY COULD do it!! I’m not so old that I can’t remember those days. It seems like a million miles away, [...]
Continue reading...Sedentary Exploits
Saturday, July 9, 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...Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Did you hear about the lunar eclipse last night? It was a unique event, because it occurred on the winter solstice (the shortest day of the year). Unfortunately, I missed it (I actually do try to see these astronomical events, I think they are amazing!), but someone made a very cool video of it! I’m [...]
Continue reading...Welcome to My Little Home on the Net
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Hello, Blog Jog Day visitors! New York Renovator is my little home on the Internet. I blog about our adventures as we *try* to fix up our 1855 home in Upstate New York. We’ve been here 10 years, but have really only recently begun to update. We’d been running on 1920s knob-and-tube wiring, a 1940s [...]
Continue reading...Time For a Vacation?
Saturday, September 25, 2010
It’s rather funny. After spending untold $$ and hours (and blood and sweat and tears) renovating our home… the first thing we all want to do to relax now that it is *almost* over is.. GO TO SOMEONE ELSE’S PLACE ON A VACATION! lol. Well, as much as I absolutely love my home’s new look, [...]
Continue reading...A Day Off Today
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Today is our Sabbath rest day from work. We chugged along for nine days, packing up the kitchen and dining room, setting up a temporary kitchen in the garage, and demolishing the kitchen and dining room. What a wild ride! It’s like life just STOPPED during that time. I even forgot to water my baby [...]
Continue reading...Go Retro
Monday, February 2, 2009
I found this very cool photo site devoted entirely to houses of old: 50s Pam’s Photosets on Flickr. This one startled me, because it looks something like my kitchen here… well, before the cabinet doors fell off and the drop ceiling came down… and before the orange laminate countertops warped from age (yes, we really [...]
Continue reading...For You Curious New Readers
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Some new readers to my humble bloggy abode have recently been requesting photos and more information about our renovation work here. I haven’t done much renovation this summer, but last summer and the past few years, we worked hard on the gardens, exterior and basement work, and gutting the living room. I have tried to [...]
Continue reading...I Can’t Figure It Out
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The electricity in this house continues to drive me crazy! I just can’t figure it out. Half the electricity in the house is still out. I have been very slowly redoing what I can. But we still have only a cobbed-together kitchen light with two outlets. We are still without lights in the Front Entry, [...]
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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