Tag Archive | "winter"
Find the Kitty Friday… 11/12
Sorry I’m late with this one! Where could she be? I love this photo. I usually take such “industrious” photos, and not very arty. But this one I like. Maybe it’s because of the color, or perhaps it’s the crystal-clear foreground and slightly hazy background. It looks so arty! I actually shot a nice photo! [...]
Continue reading...Cabin Fever Big Time
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
*****sighhhhh**** Pardon me as I recollect… Can’t you just smell them? I wonder how my new bed in my Secret Garden will turn out this year. I’m so desperate I don’t even care about how ugly that sump pump pipe looks. Ah, to see green again…. It’s been so gloomy this winter. I haven’t had [...]
Continue reading...Just Try and Knock This Over, Buddy
Thursday, January 28, 2010
We haven’t had hardly ANY snow this year, but the snowplows have gone wild! There are three road signs along the front of my property, and two of them are fallen on the curb, the victims of the maniac snowplow driver. One of them (a “No Parking” sign) is horribly mangled, as if the snowplow [...]
Continue reading...Protecting Against Power Surges
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Well, winters storms are only a few weeks away, and that usually means power outages. Sudden power outages, and power surges, can cause terrible damage to electronics. I have a very high-power (and expensive) computer and monitor that I use for my business. Earlier this year, we had a severe sudden power outage with power [...]
Continue reading...No More Chances
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Well. I guess we’re not getting our January Thaw. Here’s hoping for an early spring. Usually we get a reprieve of winter’s gloom and cold about the last week of January. No such thing this year. It was a freezing cold January, up until the bitter end. We got up to a whopping 12 degrees [...]
Continue reading...Heat Wave Coming!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Woooohooooo! Can you believe it?! What is it with getting older? I used to actually like the colder temperatures; not since I hit my late 30s. And for about two weeks (the same two weeks we have all been sick, coincidentally), the temperatures have held with what our weathermen like to call an “ARCTIC BLAST.” [...]
Continue reading...F-F-F-F-Freez-z-zing
Thursday, January 1, 2009
I am not a very “cold” person. Pre-New York blood as old as the native Indians runs in my New York veins, so I have a pedigree of cold tolerance. BUT WOW it was freezing last night! At 8am my thermometer read -5 degrees Fahrenheit this morning. NEGATIVE five. And that was when the sun [...]
Continue reading...What a Difference a Day Makes!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Well, you asked for it! More snow photos. I know you people in the South just love to look at these photos. As for us in the North, well…. it’s still really nice. Until Februrary; then it gets pretty old. So what a difference a day makes! This I took yesterday, just as the lake [...]
Continue reading...Frosty Morning
Thursday, December 11, 2008
I drove out to the country this morning. We have managed to maintain our mere 1/2 inch of snow over the weekend, but everything went back to brown and muddy after Tuesday’s (relatively) warm rains. But today, as I chugged up into the higher hills, wispy swirls of snow greeted me. It was pretty. 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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