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Is Emergency Preparedness A Pipe Dream?
I’m reading this very old book, Historic Storms of New England. It was written by Sidney Perley and published in 1891. His narratives go back to the first recorded natural disasters of the year 1635, a mere 15 years after the Separatists (English Pilgrims) landed on the shores of Massachusetts in 1620. The book is [...]
Continue reading...Home Ownership Down
Monday, January 31, 2011
Home ownership rates continue to plummet. According to CNBC, Americans just aren’t buying homes so much. America’s home ownership rate, after holding steady for a while, took a pretty big plunge in Q4, from 66.9 percent to 66.5 percent. That’s down from the 2004 peak of 69.2 percent and the lowest level since 1998. Homeownership [...]
Continue reading...They Ain’t Kidding: Toxic Sludge Candy Bar Really IS Toxic
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Yuk. I just read a press release regarding a “voluntary” recall by the FDA and Circle City Marketing and Distributing for their Toxic Waste® brand Nuclear Sludge® Chew Bars. Apparently, the State of California Department of Public Health discovered “elevated levels of lead (0.24 parts per million; the U.S. FDA tolerance is 0.1 ppm) that [...]
Continue reading...Housing Armaggedon?!
Friday, October 15, 2010
I don’t know a whole lot about the housing market, but like most other things, I figure such issues are easily understood with a healthy dose of common sense. There’s a blog post story in the Wall Street Journal (yes, I guess even the high-brow WSJ folks blog! lol!) called Are We Headed For Housing [...]
Continue reading...When There’s Nothing Left to Control
Friday, June 11, 2010
Since we’re renovating, I’m paying much more attention to news and government actions about home ownership and renovating. And it’s getting scary out there. There are a slew of new proposals and laws, none of them good. Actually, they are all very strange and control-freaky. I guess this is what happens when government already controls [...]
Continue reading...Housing Market Bottoming Out?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
We can only wish. Then we’d have nowhere to go but up. According to Bloomberg, this may be the year the housing market bottoms out. Hmm. I am skeptical; we’ll see. I haven’t seen any moves by anyone to tighten the belt or hit a diet supplements routine. Instead, I still see an awful lot [...]
Continue reading...These Are Our Next Kitchen Trends? Really?
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
My local news source linked to a Move.com article detailing some exprected trends in kitchen remodels. To be honest, I really question the trends. They seem extremely extravagant. Now I know, I know, I live in Upstate New York, not exactly within the realms of the Beverly Hills/Manhattan Home Re-Do specialists. And I admit, I [...]
Continue reading...They Caught Their Man
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
I drove my husband to work very early this morning (4:30am) and on the way to the city, we saw several police cars parked on the side of the road. Policemen were walking around with flashlights and one had a German shepherd on a leash. Living near a city has its advantages, but this isn’t [...]
Continue reading...It’s a “Sign” for Palin
Friday, October 3, 2008
Hey I thought aliens were voting for Obama, ha ha! I read in the news that a farmer from Ohio made a corn maze with Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s image. See for yourself! A corn maze is made for people to walk around in, kind of like a country bumpkin rat race. I’ve never [...]
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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